Professor Emeritus William W. Cooper, an academic
giant widely considered to be a father of management science, died
Wednesday, June 20, at the age of 97. A high school dropout and former
boxing champ, he went on to revolutionize business education and
research.
In a career that spanned nearly seven decades and included stints at
the University of Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, and Harvard Business School,
Cooper was a prolific researcher who was at the forefront of a new way
of studying business, emphasizing scientific rigor and integrating
disciplines. In the words of one of his star doctoral students, Andrew Whinston,
professor at McCombs: “The models Bill pioneered fostered a huge
transformation of worldwide company operations. He has, as they say in
today’s jargon, a big footprint.”
He was also a fixture on campus, coming to work nearly every day until just a few weeks before his death.
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