Peter-Adrian Cohen Explained

Peter-Adrian Cohen (also known as Peter Cohen) (16.11.1939 † 07.03.2016) was an American writer. He grew up in Zürich, Switzerland, and lived in Boston.

Career

While studying at Harvard Business School Cohen wrote the 1973 best-seller, The Gospel According to the Harvard Business School. It is a "sophisticated" and "negative" look at the Business School.^{[1] [2]}

He is the author of To Pay the Price, a play about Yonatan Netanyahu,^{[3] [4]} and " Verstehn Sie Mich, Herr Goldfarb" (Do You Understand Me, Herr Goldfarb?", a play.^[5]

Plays

• To Pay the Price
• "Why Worry?"
• The Court Jew
• A Ship to Zion
• Verstehn Sie mich, Herr Goldfarb? – Do You Understand Me, Mr. Goldfarb?
• Im Namen Gottes (In the Name of God), scenic reading, about 9/11. First given in Zürich, Sept. 10, 2011 and then Sept. 11 in Bonn (Germany) and Cambridge (MA).

Notes and References

1. Managers, not MBAs: a hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development, Henry Mintzberg, Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2004, p. 72.
2. Values in teaching and professional ethics, y Carlton T. Mitchell, Mercer University Press, 1989, pp. 101-103
3. Play tells story of Israeli soldier, Berkshire Eagle, Aug. 29, 2006
4. http://www.boston.com/news/globe/living/articles/2007/05/09/under_pressure_new_rep_cancels_play/ Under pressure, New Rep cancels play, Boston Globe, May 9, 2007
5. In Berlin, stories of the shtetl; Giving voice to a culture of unique appeal, Yiddish theater thrives, thanks partly to a Protestant minister. Los Angeles Times, Julia M. Klein, Oct 10, 2004