John Hooker is the T. Jerome Holleran Professor of Business Ethics and Social Responsibility and a professor of operations research at the Tepper School of Business.  He joined the Tepper School in 1984 and has since held several visiting posts, most recently at the London School of Economics.  He holds doctoral degrees in philosophy and operations research.

In the area of operations research, he has produced pioneering work on the integration of optimization technologies. His book Logic-Based Methods for Optimization: Combining Optimization and Constraint Satisfaction was the first published on this subject. He is also the author of Optimization Methods for Logical Inference and two editions of Integrated Methods for Optimization.  He has published over 130 articles and served on several editorial boards, including two decades as an area editor for INFORMS Journal on Computing.  He is an INFORMS Fellow and recipient of the INFORMS Computing Society Prize.

Professor Hooker also has interests in business ethics and cross-cultural management, as reflected in his books Business Ethics as Rational Choice and Working across Cultures.  He is founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Business Ethics Education and founding director of the Center for International Corporate Responsibility at Carnegie Mellon, in which capacity he co-organized four conferences on international corporate responsibility.  He has lived and worked in Australia, China, Denmark, India, Qatar, Turkey, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Zimbabwe, and has extensive experience in Germany and Mexico. 

Professor Hooker headed the Tepper School’s undergraduate business administration program from 1996 to 2001 and received a Distinguished Service Award for his contributions. In 2009, he was recognized with an Award for Sustained Teaching Excellence.