Peter Cohan

Peter Cohan

Peter Cohan is president of Peter S. Cohan & Associates, a management consulting and venture capital firm he founded in 1994. By conducting over 150 consulting projects, he has helped governments and businesses to identify, evaluate and profit from growth opportunities that spring from new technologies. Three of his portfolio companies were sold for a total of $2 billion.

He teaches business strategy to undergraduate and graduate students at Babson College — BusinessWeek ranked its undergraduate strategy department #2 in the U.S.

AchieveMax ranked his eighth book, You Can’t Order Change: Lessons From Jim McNerney’s Turnaround at Boeing, the #1 business book of 2009. His ninth book, co-authored with Srini Rangan, is Capital Rising: How Capital Flows Are Changing Business Systems All Over the World— that Choice called “important, well-researched, socially-responsible, and groundbreaking.”

He has appeared on ABC’s Good Morning America, CBS’s Evening News and Early Show, CNBC, CNN, and PBS’s Nightly Business Report as well as on NPR’s MarketPlace. And he’s been quoted in the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Time, BusinessWeek, and Fortune.

Recent Articles

Why Autozone Outruns Advance Auto Parts

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Try PVH on for Size, Leave Warnaco on the Rack

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Ralcorp Shares Taste Better Than Kellogg

RAH could be taken over and it has backing by a winning hedge fund – Kellogg is shrinking.

Foot Locker or Finish Line: Which Should You Run With?

Industry leader Foot Locker currently has a more appealing valuation, although the much smaller Finish Line has slightly wider margins.

Should You Store Stock in QLogic or Brocade?

Network storage providers Qlogic and Brocade are booming lately and do business in a rapidly growing field. Which is right for you?

St. Jude or Medtronic: Which Is Healthier for Your Portfolio?

STJ and MDT are thriving in a tough industry -- cardiovascular rhythm management -- but one may have an edge.

Buy This Stock for Value Menu Prices!

Wendy’s (WEN) and Jack in the Box (JACK) are clear second fiddles to McDonald's, but one of them is a bargain if it can turn around its performance in 2012.

Watch Your Wealth Grow on Disney, CBS

Both DIS and CBS are solid entertainment stocks with strong growth potential, but one might prove to be the better industry value. See our top pick.