Professor William Cooper
University of Texas at Austin
Von Neumann Medal, 1982
"Management Science Research and the Challenge of Bureaucracy"

Professor Cooper has an outstanding record in developing quantitative tools to solve managerial problems. He has made major contributions to a range of fields: operations research, management science, manpower planning and accounting, as well as economics. He is co-recipient of the prestigious Von Neumann Medal for his work in developing mathematical programming techniques and models for decision planning, and has also received research awards from the American Accounting Association and the Institute for Management Science

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• The First Lecture, 1988, Herbert A. Simon (Nobel 1978)
• The Second Lecture, 1989, William Cooper (Von Neumann Medal 1982)
• The Third Lecture, 1990, Franco Modigliani (Nobel 1985)
• The Fourth Lecture, 1991, Richard Cyret
• The Fifth Lecture, 1992, James Tobin (Nobel 1981)
• The Sixth Lecture, 1993, Robert Solow (Nobel 1987)
• The Seventh Lecture, 1994, Kenneth Arrow (Nobel 1972)
• The Eight Lecture, 1995, Lawrence Klein (Nobel 1980)
• The Ninth Lecture, 1996, Harry M. Markowitz (Nobel 1990)
• The Tenth Lecture, 1997, Douglas C. North (Nobel 1993)
• The Eleventh Lecture, 1998, James A. Mirrlees (Nobel 1996)
• The Twelfth Lecture, 1999, Robert W. Fogel (Nobel 1993)
• The Thirteenth Lecture, 2000, Herbert A. Simon (Nobel 1977)
• The Fourteenth Lecture, 2001, Joseph Stiglitz (Nobel 2001)
• The Fifteenth Lecture, 2002, James A. Heckman (Nobel 2000)
• The Sixthteenth Lecture, 2004, Vernon L. Smith (Nobel 2002)
• The Seventeenth Lecture, 2006, Finn Kydland (Nobel 2004)