Boyd Cohen
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Boyd Cohen (born 1970) is an
Background
Education
Cohen obtained his undergraduate degree in Organizational Behavior from Miami University in 1993. He completed his master's degree in Human Resources from the University of South Carolina. His final semester was spent at the Copenhagen Business School. After working for three years with Accenture in the U.S., Cohen began his PhD studies in strategy and entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado (Boulder).
Academic career
After obtaining his PhD at the University of Colorado, Cohen’s first academic position was at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid. Later he went to the University of Victoria in Canada from 2002-2006. While there he also was a visiting professor at INCAE. He later joined Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Canada and also served as an adjunct at the University of British Columbia. Since then Cohen has been on the faculty at business schools in Argentina, Chile and Barcelona, Spain.
Experience
Cohen has been involved in several sustainable startups since the early 2000s. After obtaining his
Research and publications
Cohen has spent much of his professional life researching sustainability, entrepreneurship and smart cities. Aside from publications in the Journal of Business Venturing,[6] Strategic Management Journal,[7] and Business Strategy and the Environment,[8] Cohen has also focused on reaching practitioner audiences.
Climate Capitalism was published in 2011 and helped Boyd become more globally known for his work. He began writing for Triple Pundit,
Cohen's "smart cities wheel", first introduced in Fast Company,[12] has become one of the most cited models for smart cities. Since 2011, he has published annual rankings of smart cities around the globe using the wheel and several indicators.[10]
In 2014, Cohen joined forces with Esteve Almirall from ESADE in Barcelona, and Henry Chesbrough to launch a special issue of the California Management Review focused on cities, open innovation and the collaborative economy.[13]
In 2016, Cohen published The Emergence of the Urban Entrepreneur with a foreword by Richard Florida and support from Pablo Muñoz.
In 2017, Cohen published Post-Capitalist Entrepreneurship.
Keynote speeches
Cohen is a frequent speaker on the topic of sustainability and smart cities, and has been featured as keynote speaker and did a TEDx talk in 2013
References
- ^ "Boyd Cohen: Sustainable Building Centre Guest Expert Series". Carruthers, H. Retrieved April 24, 2014.[unreliable source?]
- ^ "Live Earth monitoring reveals extent of carbon footprints". Meadahl, M. Retrieved October 24, 2007.
- ^ Pacheco, R. "Green Consumption Goes Mobile: Shopping Sustainably with 3rd Whale". TechVibes. Retrieved September 11, 2009.
- ^ Parrasch, Suzi. "Carbon Capitalism: Boyd Cohen's Quest to Offset Carbon, One Brick at a Time". Care2. Retrieved April 18, 2010.
- ^ "How Blockchain Technology Will Enable Mobility As A Service - Barcinno". www.barcinno.com. Retrieved 2018-03-23.
- ^ Cohen, Boyd; Winn, Monika (2007). "Market imperfections, opportunity and sustainable entrepreneurship". Journal of Business Venturing. 22 (1): 29–49. .
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Cohen, Boyd D; Dean, Thomas J. (July 2005). "Information asymmetry and investor valuation of IPOs: top management team legitimacy as a capital market signal". Strategic Management Journal. 26 (7): 683–690. doi:10.1002/smj.463.
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Cohen, Boyd (January 2006). "Sustainable valley entrepreneurial ecosystems, Business Strategy and the Environment". Business Strategy and the Environment. 15 (1). doi:10.1002/bse.428.
- ^ "Articles by Boyd Cohen in Triple Pundit".
- ^ a b "Articles by Boyd Cohen in Fast Company".
- ^ "Articles by Boyd Cohen in Huffington Post".
- ^ Cohen, Boyd (September 19, 2012). "What Exactly is a Smart City". Fastcoexist.com.
- ^ "Call for Papers for Special Issue of California Management Review" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-03.
- ^ "Boyd Cohen's TEDx talk in Tigre, Argentina".
External links
- Official website
- Boyd Cohen at Fast Company