Mr. Cohen is the MBA Class of 1975 Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management at Harvard Business School. Cohen teaches finance and entrepreneurship at HBS and has previously held positions as Associate Professor at HBS and Visiting Associate Professor at MIT Sloan. He currently teaches Field X/Y at HBS, a course for students who are starting businesses while obtaining their MBA. Last year he advised around 90 startup businesses in the course. He co-developed the Alternative Investments course for HBS Online which will go live in the first quarter of 2020. Mr. Cohen’s main research interests are the identification and selection of money managers who are most likely to outperform, asset allocation, risk management, and anything else related to building great investment portfolios. Cohen has studied the differential reactions of institutions and individuals to news about firms and the economy, as well as the effect of institutional trading on stock prices. Other research areas include activist investing, municipal securities, cryptocurrency, and longevity insurance. In addition to his academic work, Cohen has helped to start and grow a number of businesses, mostly, but not exclusively, in the area of investment management. He also has served as a consultant to many established money management firms. Cohen holds an AB in mathematics from Harvard College and a PhD in finance and Economics from the University of Chicago.