Hooker, John 1949–

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Hooker, John 1949–

(J.N. Hooker, Jr., John N. Hooker, Jr.)

PERSONAL: Born May 15, 1949; son of John N., Sr. (an educator) and Ila (a teacher; maiden name, Goad) Hooker; married Peggy Henry (an attorney), August 25, 1971; children: John Thomas. Education: Princeton University, A.B., 1971; Vanderbilt University, Ph.D. (philosophy), 1974; University of Tennessee, Ph.D. (management science), 1984.

ADDRESSES: Office—Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213. Agent—Georges Borchardt, 136 E. 57th St., New York, NY 10022. E-mail—john@hooker.tepper.emu.edu.

CAREER: Writer and educator. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, T. Jerome Holleran Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility, professor of operations research, and founding director of Center for International Corporate Responsibility.

WRITINGS:

(As J.N. Hooker, with V. Chandru) Optimization Methods for Logical Inference, John Wiley (New York, NY), 1999.

(As J.N. Hooker) Logic-Based Methods for Optimization: Combining Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction, John Wiley (New York, NY), 2000.

Working across Cultures, Stanford University Press (Stanford, CA), 2003.

(Editor, with Peter Madsen) International Corporate Responsibility: Exploring the Issues, Carnegie-Mellon University Press (Pittsburgh, PA), 2004.

Founding editor in chief, Journal of Business Ethics Education. Contributor of more than ninety articles to scholarly journals.

WORK IN PROGRESS: Research on integrated methods for optimization, a rigorous approach to normative ethics, and ethics around the world; a second volume on international corporate responsibility, edited with Ans Kolk and Peter Madsen.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

ONLINE

Carnegie-Mellon University Web Site: John Hooker Home Page, http://web.tepper.cmu.edu/jnh (February 28, 2005).

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