Peter Cohan is an American businessman, author, venture capitalist, and financier.[1]
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.
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 ten books, including Export Now: Five Keys to Entering New Markets (Wiley, 2011), co-authored with Frank Lavin, Capital Rising (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2010), co-authored by U. Srinivasa Rangan, You Can't Order Change (Portfolio, 2009), Value Leadership (Jossey-Bass, 2003) and Net Profit (Wiley, 2001). He has contributed to six compendiums of modern management, blogs on AOL's DailyFinance, 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. Since September 2005, he has taught business strategy to undergraduate and MBA students at Babson.
From September 2004 to September 2008, Cohan served on the board of the Alzheimer's Association, Massachusetts Chapter.
He has appeared as a guest on ABC's Good Morning America, CBS's Early Show and Evening News, CNN, and CNBC and has been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, TIME, Fortune, and Business Week.
Cohan writes online columns for Forbes and the Worcester Telegram & Gazette and is a member of the Wharton Blog Network.
He is the brother of William D. Cohan.