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Peter Cohan, Associate Professor of Management Practice, teaches strategy and entrepreneurship to undergraduate and Master of Science in Entrepreneurial Leadership students, including courses such as Strategic Problem Solving. Scaling Strategy, Strategic Decision Making, and Global Entrepreneurship Experience – Sweden. He is also a faculty advisor for undergraduate student teams in their consulting work with companies through the Management Consulting Field Experience (MCFE) program. He created and led the Hong Kong/Singapore Start-up Strategy Offshore elective for MBA students. For undergraduates, he created and ran the Paris, Israel and Portugal/Spain Start-up Strategy Offshore electives. He also served as a visiting professor at Barcelona’s EADA and Tel Aviv University. Cohan started a consulting and venture capital firm in 1994, and he has completed over 150 consulting projects aimed at boosting the growth of high-tech companies and has invested in seven startups. Three of these failed, three were sold for over $2 billion, and one went public in July 2021 at an $18 billion valuation. He is a senior contributor at Forbes and writes a column for Inc. Cohan has authored 17 books and contributed to six management compendiums. His most recent book is Brain Rush: How to Invest and Compete in the Real World of Generative AI (Apress: forthcoming 2024). He also wrote Goliath Strikes Back: How Traditional Retailers Are Winning Back Customers from Ecommerce Startups (Apress, November 2020), Scaling Your Startup: Mastering the Four Stages From Idea to $10 Billion (Apress: 2019), Startup Cities: Why Only a Few Cities Dominate the Global Startup Scene and What the Rest Should Do About It (Apress, February 2018). Prior to that he authored Disciplined Growth Strategies: Insights from the Growth Trajectories of Successful and Unsuccessful Companies (Apress, February 2017) and Hungry Start-Up Strategy: Creating New Ventures with Limited Resources and Unlimited Vision (Berrett-Koehler, November 2012). Cohan is a frequent commentator on developments in economics, technology, and finance. He has been a guest on ABC’s “Good Morning America,” CNN, CNBC, PBS’s “Wall $treet Week,” and New England Cable News (NECN). He has been quoted in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Barron’s, Red Herring, Time, Business Week, Fortune, and Newsweek International.

Dr. Rangan holds the Luksic Chair Professorship in Strategy and Global Studies. His teaching, research, and consulting activities are in the areas of strategy, globalization, alliances, and entrepreneurship. His current research deals with the globalization of emerging market firms, evolution of industries and firm-level strategies and the impact of national business systems on them, and entrepreneurial ecosystems of countries. After serving as a manager in industrial and international finance in India and England, Dr. Rangan held research and faculty positions at IMD, Harvard Business School (HBS), and Tulane University, where he received the Howard Wissner Award for Outstanding Teaching. At Babson, Dr. Rangan has been recognized for both teaching excellence and scholarly accomplishment; he is the first professor to receive three different awards – the Deans’ Award for Teaching Excellence across all programs (selected by deans), the Thomas Kennedy Award for Outstanding Teaching in graduate school (voted by students), and the Faculty Award for Scholarship (chosen by faculty research committee) – at Babson.