Allan Cohen
Currently the Dean of the Graduate School (interim) and The Edward A. Madden Distinguished Professor of Global Leadership at Babson College, Cohen previously served seven years as Chief Academic Officer, leading major curriculum and organizational changes, then returned to the faculty to teach leadership, change and negotiations. He is a noted author, speaker and consultant.
Dr. Cohen is the co-author of the best seller, Managing for Excellence, (recently re-issued by Wiley as a Management Classic), and Power Up; Transforming Organizations through Shared Leadership, also with David Bradford, was published in 1998, and selected as one of the best leadership books of 1998 by the Management General website. Their classic, Influence Without Authority has been revised and released in April 2005. Among his many publications is a co-authored textbook, Effective Behavior in Organizations (McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 7 editions, last 2000), which has been adopted by more than 300 colleges, and has had a major impact on the teaching of organizational behavior. He also co-authored the award-winning Alternative Work Schedules: Integrating Individual and Organizational Needs. Dr. Cohen edited The Portable MBA in Management (Wiley, 2nd ed. 2002).
Dr. Cohen’s consulting clients for a variety of change projects have included IBM, General Electric (Work Out), Rohm and Haas, Exel, The Hartford, Polaroid, Home Depot, Reebok, Decision Resources, General Scanning, General Mills, Chubb Life, SmithKline Beecham, Digital Equipment Corporation, MITRE, DSM, and Sulzer Infra. A member of the Social Venture Network, he is on the Sohodojo Advisory Board (“Home of the nanocorp and small business revolutionaries”); the advisory board of CellMark Global/Mili Multimedia Afghanistan; and served on the Sulzer Infra Academy Advisory Board.
A popular speaker, he has given speeches and seminars to such organizations as Royal Bank of Canada, Pfizer, IBM, CSC, Rockport, Nypro, New Balance, Serono, Mellon Private Bank, American Productivity Management Association, Digital Equipment Corporate Leaders Forum, Chase Bank, Westcott Communications, Center for Quality Management, Lafarge, and AT&T on:
· Leadership: Creating Extraordinary Performance
· Influence Without Authority; Getting Things Done
· Implementing Strategic Change
· Family Business
Formerly the J. R. Carter Professor of Management at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire, Cohen was director of the Whittemore School’s M.B.A. program from 1974-1979, where he was voted outstanding faculty member.
Dr. Cohen helped create the Indian Institute of Management in Ahmedabad. He has also been a visiting professor at the Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, a consultant in London and Austria, and a guest seminar leader at IMEDE (now IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was a visiting scholar at Harvard Business School and a guest lecturer at Stanford Business School. Recently he completed a two year term as chair of the Business Accreditation Committee of the AACSB.
Dr. Cohen earned an A.B. from Amherst College and M.B.A. and D.B.A. degrees from Harvard Business School.
