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

Cognizant, Accenture a Pair of Outsourcing Dynamos

This pair of global outsourcers give you growth at a reasonable price -- but avoid Computer Sciences Corp. and watch out for growth slowdown.

Stock Your Portfolio With Walgreen, Not CVS

Both CVS and Walgreen are fairly valued, but one stock is a more attractive investment. The winner is ...

Let NVR Build Your Portfolio; KB and Toll Brothers Should Stay Home

NVR is thriving in a terrible industry, and its shares are cheap if it can meet its 2012 EPS target.

Coach is Most Clutch Among Luxury Leaders

Coach, Tiffany and Ralph Lauren are all profitable luxury companies, but COH's profit margin and relative value make it stand out.

Oil Plays: Why Drill When You Can Integrate?

Chevron is up while offshore drillers like Transocean and Diamond Offshore are down -- it all comes down to how they make their money.

Microsoft Trumps Software Stocks Oracle, Salesforce.com

Oracle and Salesgrowth.com are a pair of differing feel-good stories, but despite slower growth, Microsoft still is the market leader -- and its stock is cheap.

BB&T You Can Bank On — Bank of America and Citigroup, However …

Difficult-to-value assets dwarf BofA’s net worth, and Citigroup is avoiding reporting its Level 2 and Level 3 assets -- meanwhile, BB&T's profit growth keeps soaring.

Give Bristol-Myers the Benefit Over Merck

Bristol-Myers’ robust new drug portfolio could make it an acquisition target -- and an investing target for you -- but neither stock is a bargain.

99 Cents Only’s Stock Is No Bargain

A buyout offer from Apollo Management could push 99 Cents Only stock higher, but if there’s no deal, watch out below.

No Stock Bargains at Dollar Tree, Wal-Mart

Deutsche Bank is right to pan Wal-Mart, but its "buy" on Dollar Tree makes no sense for this overvalued but fast-growing retailer.