William W. Cooper

William Wager Cooper ( born July 23, 1914 in Birmingham (Alabama ), † 20 June 2012) was an American business administrator focused on operations research and here is one of the pioneers, in particular in the application in business.

Life

Cooper grew up in Chicago and had to due to the Great Depression of the High School leaving his family in various odd jobs to support, among other things, as a boxer. He studied business administration at the University of Chicago with a bachelor 's degree in 1938. Afterwards, he was an accountant at the Tennessee Valley Authority under his mentor Eric Kohler ( 1892-1976 ), a professor at Northwestern University. Kohler had urged him to begin university studies and he moved from physical chemistry to business after he was able to score as assistant Kohler so in a patent process that he discovered a mathematical error in the patent documents. In 1940 he continued his studies at Columbia University, interrupted by World War II, where he worked division of the U.S. Bureau of Budget in the statistics. 1944 to 1946 he taught at the University of Chicago and from 1946 at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in the School of Industrial Administration (later the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University). There he worked among others with Abraham Charnes and Herbert A. Simon, and became a professor. He was also from 1949 to 1950 assistant to Eric Kohler, the controller of the Marshall plan was. In 1969 he was dean of the School of Urban and Public Affairs at Carnegie Mellon (now Heinz College). In 1975 he was Dickson accounting professor at Harvard University and 1980 Foster Parker Professor of Management, Finance and Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin. He retired in 1993 but remained active in research.

He was founding president in 1953 of The Institute of Management Science ( TIMS, since 1995 with the Operations Research Society of America merged to the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science). In 1981 he was a founding editor of Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory. In 1986 he was president of the Accounting Researchers International Association.

In the 1950s, he dealt with the transportation problem.

In 2006 he was awarded with Abraham Charnes the INFORMS Impact Prize for her work on Dateneinhüllanalyse ( the CCR model is here to Cooperstown, Charnes and Edwardo L. Rhodes named). In 1982 he was awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize with charm and Richard Duffin. He was a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, of the Econometric Society and the Operations Research Society of America. In 1976 he received an honorary diploma from Harvard and he was three honorary doctorates ( Carnegie Mellon, University of Alicante, Ohio State University).

Writings

• With A. Charnes, A. Henderson: An introduction to linear programming, Wiley, 1953 ( also, Russian and Japanese translated into Chinese ) from him and Henderson in Part 1: An economic introduction to linear programming