Peter Cohan Explained

Peter S. Cohan is an American businessman, author and teacher.^[1] He is the founding principal of Peter S. Cohan & Associates, a management consulting and venture capital firm. He has completed over 150 growth-strategy consulting projects for global technology companies and invested in seven startups—three of which were sold for over $2 billion and his most recent—Sofi Technologies—went public in July 2021 at an $18 billion valuation.

Cohan is a Senior Lecturer of strategy at Babson College. He teaches business strategy, entrepreneurship, leadership, and management consulting to both undergraduate and graduate students. RETHINK Retail selected him as a Top 100 Retail Influencer in 2021 and 2022 ^[2]

Journalism

Cohan writes the Start-up Economy column for Forbes magazine,^[3] and "The Hungry Start-up" column for Inc magazine,^[4] Wall and Main, his Worcester Telegram & Gazette column, helped its Business Matters section win the 2012 New England Newspaper and Press Association award for the best Business page for papers over 30k circulation]. He is a member of the Wharton Blog Network, which received the Gold Award in the 2013 Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) District II Accolades Awards program.^[5]

Personal life

From September 2004 to September 2008, Cohan served on the board of the Alzheimer's Association, Massachusetts Chapter. He is the brother of William D. Cohan.

Books

• Goliath Strikes Back: How Traditional Retailers Are Winning Back Customers from Ecommerce Startups (Apress: December 2020)
• Scaling Your Startup: Mastering the Four Stages from Idea to $10 Billion (Apress: January 2019)
• Startup Cities: Why Only a Few Cities Dominate the Global Startup Scene and What the Rest Should Do About It (Apress, February 2018)
• Disciplined Growth Strategies: Insights From the Growth Trajectories of Successful and Unsuccessful Companies (Apress, February 2017)
• Hungry Start-up Strategy: Creating New Ventures with Limited Resources and Unlimited Vision (BK Business, 2012),
• 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),
• Net Profit: How to Invest and Compete in the Real World of Internet Business (Wiley, 2001),
• E -Profits by Peter S Cohan - The 12 Steps To Creating A State Of The Art E-Commerce Strategy For Any Size Business,
• The Technology Leaders: How America's Most Profitable High-Tech Companies Innovate Their Way to Success (Jossey-Bass, Publishers, 1997),

He has also contributed to six compendiums of modern management.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Obama should extend auto industry tough love to banks. Peter Cohan. DailyFinance.com. April 29, 2009. June 20, 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240620232218/https://finance.yahoo.com/portfolios. live.
2. Web site: About Peter S. Cohan. petercohan.com. May 25, 2021. June 15, 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210615071932/http://petercohan.com/about-peter-s-cohan.html. live.
3. Web site: Peter Cohan. Forbes. September 8, 2017. August 25, 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170825004714/https://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/. live.
4. Web site: Peter Cohan's articles. Inc.com. November 24, 2014. November 29, 2014. https://web.archive.org/web/20141129155152/http://www.inc.com/author/peter-cohan. live.
5. Web site: CASE DISTRICT II Accolades Award Winners . https://web.archive.org/web/20131217160253/http://www.casetwo.org/services_and_programs/awards/accolades_awards_program/accolades_award_winners/2013_accolades_award_winners.html . 2013-12-17 . 2024-06-20 . casetwo.org.