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William Wager Cooper (July 23, 1914 – June 20, 2012) was an American operations researcher, known as a father of management science and as "Mr. Linear Programming".〔.〕〔 He was the founding president of The Institute of Management Sciences, founding editor-in-chief of ''Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory'', a founding faculty member of the Graduate School of Industrial Administration at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University), founding dean of the School of Urban and Public Affairs (now the Heinz College) at CMU, the former Arthur Lowes Dickinson Professor of Accounting at Harvard University, and the Foster Parker Professor Emeritus of Management, Finance and Accounting at the University of Texas at Austin.〔〔〔.〕〔.〕〔.〕〔.〕 ==Biography== William Wager Cooper was born on July 23, 1914, in Birmingham, Alabama.〔 He grew up in Chicago, where his father (a former bookkeeper) owned several gasoline stations that closed in the Great Depression.〔〔 Cooper, in his second year of high school, dropped out to help support his family.〔〔 He worked in a bowling alley, on a golf course, and as a professional boxer;.〔〔〔 As a boxer, he won 58 bouts, lost three, and drew two.〔 While commuting to the golf course, he met Eric Kohler, a professor at Northwestern University, who pushed him to go back to school and bankrolled his entry to the University of Chicago.〔〔 At Chicago, he began studying physical chemistry but was inspired by his work for Kohler on a legal case to switch to economics,〔〔 graduating with a B.A. and Phi Beta Kappa honors in 1938.〔〔 After graduation, from 1938 to 1940, he worked as an accountant for the Tennessee Valley Authority, where Kohler had become Controller. There, he worked on performance auditing and the mathematical allocation of resources, and helped Kohler testify to a congressional investigative committee. In 1940, Cooper started doing graduate studies at Columbia University; however, in 1942, with his coursework completed but his thesis unwritten, he left Columbia to serve his country during World War II. He worked in the Division of Statistical Standards of the U.S. Bureau of the Budget coordinating the government programs that collected accounting statistics; his 1945 paper describing his wartime activities was the first recipient of an award from the American Institute of Accountants for the best paper of the year.〔〔〔 Cooper began his academic career with a brief teaching stint, from 1944 to 1946, back at the University of Chicago.〔 In 1945, Cooper married his wife Ruth, a lawyer and human activist, and in 1946 he joined the newly formed Graduate School of Industrial Administration at the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University). There, he formed important research collaborations with Abraham Charnes, George Leland Bach, and Herbert A. Simon, and eventually became University Professor.〔〔〔 While at CMU, from 1949 to 1950, he also worked again as an assistant to Eric Kohler, who had by this time become Comptroller of the Marshall Plan.〔 In 1969 he left GSIA but stayed at CMU, becoming dean of the new School of Urban and Public Affairs (now the Heinz College) there. As dean, he realized that there would soon be a much greater role in American business management for African-Americans, and worked to increase African-American representation within the school.〔 In 1975, Harvard University hired Cooper away from CMU to become the Dickinson Professor of Accounting, and in 1980 he moved again, to the University of Texas at Austin, where he became the Foster Parker Professor of Management, Finance and Accounting. He retired in 1993, but continued to be active in research until his death on June 20, 2012.〔〔〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「William W. Cooper」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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