William W. Cooper
cooperw@mail.utexas.edu
Foster Parker Centennial Professor Emeritus of Finance and Management
Information, Risk, and Operations Mgmt.
CBA 4.244 (512) 471-1822 (512) 471-0587 (fax)
CBA 5.202 (512) 471-3676
• PHD (h.c.), University of Alicante, Spain, 1995
• D.Sc, Carnegie-Mellon University (Honorary), 1982
• MA, Harvard University (Honorary), 1976
• D.Sc, Ohio State University (Honorary), 1976
• BA, University of Chicago, 1938
Academic Posts:
University of Texas at Austin, 1980 - present; Carnegie-Mellon University; Harvard University; University of Chicago
Research Areas:
Information Systems, Management Science
Industry Areas:
Business Management, Information Technology
Professional Service:
Member, Editorial Board, Omega, 1995 - present;
Member, Editorial Board, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, 1993 - present;
Editor-in-Chief, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, 1979 - 1982
Corporate and Public Sector Leadership:
Educator-Consultant, U.S. General Accounting Office, 1969 - 1986;
Fellow, Econometric Society, 1956 - present;
Assistant to Comptroller, Economic Cooperation Administration, 1949 - 1950;
Principal Economist, U.S. Bureau of the Budget, 1942 - 1947
Recent and Representative Publications:
Hsihui Chang, Hiu Lam Choy, William W. Cooper, and Timothy W. Ruefli. 2009. Using Malmquist Indexes to measure changes in the productivity and efficiency of US accounting firms before and after the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. Omega 37, 951-960.
Patrick L. Brockett, William W. Cooper, Linda L. Golden, Kumbhakar, Subal C., Kwinn, Michael J., Layton, Brian, and Parker, Barnett R. 2008. Estimating Elasticities with Frontier and other Regressions in Evaluating Two Advertising Strategies for US Army Recruiting. Socio-Economic Planning Sciences 42, 1-17.
William W. Cooper. 2006. Author or coauthor of more than 500 scientific professional articles and coauthor or coeditor of 27 books, including the following.
Patrick L. Brockett, William W. Cooper, Linda L. Golden, John J. Rousseau, and Yuying Wang. 2005. Financial Intermediary Versus Production Approach to Efficiency of Marketing Distribution Systems and Organizational Structure of Insurance Companies. Journal of Risk and Insurance 72, 393-412.
Patrick L. Brockett, William W. Cooper, Honghui Deng, Linda L. Golden, and Timothy W. Ruefli. 2005. Using DEA to Identify and Manage Congestion. Journal of Productivity Analysis 22(3), 207-226.
Patrick L. Brockett, William W. Cooper, Linda L. Golden, John J. Rousseau, and Yuying Wang. 2004. Evaluating solvency versus efficiency performance and different forms of organization and marketing in US property枛liability insurance companies. European Journal of Operational Research 154, 492-514.
Vic L. Arnold, Indranil Bardhan, William W. Cooper, and Armando Gallegos. 1998. Primal and Dual Optimality in Computer Codes Using Two-Stage Solution Procedures in DEA, in Operations Research: Methods, Models and Applications, J. Aronson and S. Zionts, eds. Westport, CT and London: Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc.
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Professional Awards:
International Operational Research Hall of Fame of the International Federation of Operational Research Societies, 2005;
Career Research Excellence Award, University of Texas at Austin, 2002;
Accounting Hall of Fame, 1991;
Hall of Fame, Graduate School of Business, University of Texas at Austin, 1990;
U.S. Comptroller General Award for Significant Contributions to the U.S. General Accounting Office, 1986;
Co-Recipient of John Von Neumann Theory Prize, 1982
Teaching Awards:
Omega Rho Distinguished Lecturer, 1997
Designated Outstanding Accounting Educator by American Accounting Association, 1990