Peter Cohan

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Peter Cohan is an American businessman.

[edit] Education

Cohan earned a B.A. in art history in 1979 and a B.S. in electrical engineering in 1980 from Swarthmore College. He did graduate work in computer science at MIT and earned an MBA from Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

[edit] Achievements

Prior to 1994, when he started Peter S. Cohan & Associates, a management consulting and venture capital firm, Cohan worked for Index Systems, an information technology management consulting firm started by several MIT professors; and at The Monitor Company, a strategy consulting firm co-founded by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter, an expert on competition and strategy.

Cohan is the author of seven books, including Value Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2003) and Net Profit (Wiley, 2001). He has contributed to six compendiums of modern management, writes two online columns, and edits a monthly investment-oriented newsletter. He has taught at Stanford University, MIT, the University of Hong Kong and since May 2002 has been an executive-in-residence at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.

In September 2004, Cohan began a three-year term on the board of the Alzheimer's Association, Massachusetts Chapter.

He has appeared as a guest on ABC's Good Morning America, CNN, and CNBC and has been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Fortune, and Business Week.