Biography
Professor Cooper was formerly Professor of Management at the Peter F Ducker School of Management, Claremont University before the Goizueta Business School Faculty in 1998. Prior to that, he spent ten years on the faculty of the Harvard Business School, Harvard University. His research interests include strategic alignment and strategic cost management. Professor Cooper has worked extensively with industry implementing activity-based cost systems. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Publications

• Cost and Effect: Using Integrated Cost Systems to Drive Profitability and Performance, with Robert Kaplan, HBS Press, 1998
• Target Costing and Value Engineering, with Regine Slagmulder,, Productivity Press: Portland, 1997
• When Lean Enterprises Collide: Competing Through Confrontation, HBS Press, 1995
• Developing Profitable Products with Target Costing, with Regine Slagmulder,, Sloan Management Review, April 1999
• Costing Techniques to Support Corporate Strategy, Management Accounting Research, June 1996
• The Changing Practice of Management Accounting, Management Accounting, March 1996
• Human Reengineering, (w/ M. Lynne Markus), Sloan Management Review, Summer 1995
• Supply Chain Development for Lean Enterprise: Interorganization Cost Management, Productivity Press: Portland, 1999

Working Papers

• Interorganizational Cost Management and Relational Context (with Regine Slagmulder), 2001
• An Evolutionary Perspective on Performance Management Practice, 2002
• Integrated Cost Management Systems Throughout the Product Life Cycle, (with Regine Slagmulder), 2001

Areas of Specialization

• Design & use of cost management systems
• Japanese cost management systems
• Activity-based cost management systems
• Strategic Alignment

Achievements and Honors

• R. Lee Brummet Distinguished Service Award for Educators, Institute of Management Accountants, 2002
• Notable Contributions to Management Accounting Literature Award, 1991 & 1993 - Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association
• American Accounting Association Award for Innovations in Accounting Education, 1990
• Deloitte Haskins & Sells Foundation Fellow, 1980-1981, 1981-1982

Professional Memberships and Activities

• American Accounting Association
• Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales

Academic Background
D.B.A., Harvard University Graduate School of Business, 1982
MBA (high distinction as a Baker Scholar), Harvard University Graduate School of Business, 1977
B.S. (first class honors), Chemistry, Manchester University, 1972
Ph. D (Hons), Gent University, 1996