David Cohen

Associate Professor of Management and Business
Associate Dean of the Faculty for Diversity and Faculty Affairs

Education:

• Ph.D. in management, with a specialization in strategic management, Isenberg School of Management, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
• J.D., University of Chicago
• B.A., University of Chicago

Courses:

• MB 107 Business and Organization Management
• MB 349 Business Strategy
• SSP 100 First-Year Experience

Research and Teaching Interests:

• Strategic management, including strategy process, the middle-management perspective on strategy process, and strategy process as a complex adaptive system
• Social network analysis
• Neo-institutionalism and organizational identity

Publications:

• Meyer, C., Cohen, D. and Nair, S. (2020), "From automats to algorithms: the automation of services using artificial intelligence", Journal of Service Management, Published online ahead of print March 22, 2020. DOI: 10.1108/JOSM-05-2019-0161
• Meyer, C.R., Cohen, D.G., and Gauthier, J. (2019) Social entrepreneurship, stakeholder management, and the multiple fitness elements of sustainability: where cash is no longer king, Journal of Small Business & Entrepreneurship, DOI: 10.1080/08276331.2019.1661614.
• Gauthier, J., Cohen, D.G. and Meyer, C.R. (2019) Top management team characteristics and social value creation. Journal of Social Entrepreneurship, 10(2), 252-263. DOI: 10.1080/19420676.2018.1541012

Presentations:

• Meyer, C.R., Cohen, D.G., and Gauthier, J. Heeding the Red Queen: Sustainability, Entropy, Innovation, and Social Entrepreneurship. To be presented at the 12th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference in New York, New York, November 2015.
• Gauthier, J., Meyer, C.R., and Cohen, D.G. The Role of Framing in Sustainability Championing: Implications for Social Intrapreneurs. To be presented at the 12th Annual Social Entrepreneurship Conference in New York, New York, November 2015.
• Cohen, D.G., Meyer, C.R., Nair, S. Mind the Gap: Social Entrepreneurs as Network Bridges in the Funding of Stem Cell Research. Presented at the: 2015 Academy of Management Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada, August 10, 2015