Susan Cohen

• PhD, Strategy and Entrepreneurship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013
• MBA, Entrepreneurship, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, 1997
• BA, Mathematics, University of Michigan

• I study innovation and organizational learning across several contexts - from entrepreneurs in accelerator programs to large corporations making technological transitions.
• Innovation
• Entrepreneurship
• Venture finance and acceleration
• Industry evolution
• Corporate strategy

Journal Articles

• Miller A, O’Mahony S, Cohen SL. 2023. Opening the Aperture: Explaining the Complementary Roles of Advice and Testing When Forming Entrepreneurial Strategy. Organization Science
• O’Mahony S, Cohen S. 2022. Navigating the promises and perils of researching emerging phenomena in strategy and organizations. Strategic Organization.
• Hallen BL, Cohen SL, Bingham C. 2020. Do Accelerators Work? If So, How? Organization Science.
• Cohen SL, Bingham BB, Hallen BL. 2019. The Role of Accelerator Designs in Mitigating Bounded Rationality in New Ventures. Administrative Science Quarterly. An earlier version published in the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.
• Cohen S, Fehder DC, Hochberg YV, Murray F. 2019. The Design of Startup Accelerators. Research Policy.
• Cohen SL, Tripsas M. 2018. Managing Technological Transitions by Building Bridges. Academy of Management Journal.
• Cohen SL 2016. What do Accelerators do? Insights from Incubators and Angels. Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization, 8(3-4):19-25.

• Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation 2022 Knowledge Challenge Grant
• University of Georgia Innovation, Creativity, and Design Thinking Research Community Seed Grant, 2021
• Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship, The Kauffman Foundation, 2018
• Robins School MBA Professor of the Year, The University of Richmond’s Robin’s School, 2016
• Kauffman Foundation Grant, The Kauffman Foundation, 2014
• Best Paper Award, Academy of Management, Technology & Innovation Management, 2014
• Batten Fellow, Darden School of Business, University of Virginia, 2012
• Tanner Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2012

Academy of Management, Technology and Innovation Management Interest Group

• Representative-at-large (Elected)
• Member of research committee (Appointed)

Strategic Management Society, Entrepreneurship and Strategy Interest Group

• Representative-at-large (Elected)