122 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine EDUCATION Dr. William N. Cooke has been a professor and former director of the School of Human Resources and Labor Relations at Michigan State University since 2008. Over the span of nearly 50 years in academia, he has trained over 5,500 human resource professionals in negotiations and consulted with 35 organizations in contract negotiations and high-performance workplace systems. Dr. Cooke holds a BS in economics from Eastern Illinois University and was encouraged to pursue postgraduate study by an early academic mentor. He then attended the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, earning a PhD in 1977. Dr. Cooke began teaching in 1977 as an assistant professor at the University of Maine. During this time, he held one-year appointments as a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley and as a visiting fellow at Cornell University. From 1980 to 1983, he joined the Purdue University Krannert Graduate School of Management as the chair of organizational behavior and human resource management. For the following eight years, Dr. Cooke was an associate professor and director of executive education programs in negotiations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. From 1990 to 2007, he served as a senior research professor and the director of the Fraser Center for Workplace Issues at Wayne State University while continuing in his program director role at the University of Michigan. Dr. Cooke is also the author of four books and more than 20 articles published in leading academic journals. Notably, he co-authored the book, “Negotiating High Performance-Focused Partnerships: The 5 Stages of Effective LaborManagement Negotiations,” in 2024 with two distinguished human resource management professionals. He considers his most recent book to be his most valuable publication and plans to continue writing for broader public audiences. Dr. Cooke credits his success to hard work and his passion for understanding complex human and organizational decision-making. He advises others pursuing similar paths to pursue their intellectual curiosity in earnest and enjoy the challenge of potentially making a difference through research and scholarship. WILLIAM N. COOKE, PHD PROFESSOR, SCHOOL OF HUMAN RESOURCES AND LABOR RELATIONS Michigan State University East Lansing, MI
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