Peter Cohan

Peter Cohan is an American businessman.

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.

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".

He is the brother of William D. Cohan.