Randolph Cohen

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Randolph Cohen
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Chicago (Ph.D.)
Harvard College (A.B.)
Partner(s)ExSight Capital
Alignvest Investment Management
Websitewww.hbs.edu/faculty

Randolph Baer Cohen (born in

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is an American financial economist and MBA Class of 1975 Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management at Harvard Business School
.

Career

At Harvard, Cohen teaches Field X [1] and Field Y,[2] entrepreneurship classes designed to enable students to develop and grow their businesses.

Cohen has helped to start and grow a number of investment management firms, and has served as a consultant to others. He is a partner at Exsight Capital Management LLC,

impact investments
in innovative ophthalmic diagnostic and treatment solutions.

Cohen spoke at Hedge Fund Management (2007) hosted by Stanford CFA Institute.[4]

Cohen is on the board of the Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired(MABVI),[5] with which he collaborates to produce the podcast Dangerous Vision.[6] On the podcast, Cohen invites people who have low vision or related to people with low vision to share how they navigate through their lives. Cohen also created a Dangerous Vision website[7] to share his experience with vision loss more widely.

Personal

Cohen grew up in Philadelphia and attended Germantown Academy in Fort Washington, Pennsylvania. His father was a practicing attorney and his mother taught reading at Wordsworth Academy, a school for children with learning disabilities. During graduate school he appeared on the television show Jeopardy! on an episode that aired January 29, 1997.[8]

Cohen writes about professional basketball for the SB Nation Philadelphia 76ers fan site LibertyBallers [9] under the name blindloyalty76. One of his most widely read pieces is "Robert Covington: top 30 NBA Player?".[10]

Research

Cohen has been published in several journals in the fields of

Barron's Magazine (December 16–20, 2002), was also nominated for the Smith-Breeden Prize.[13]

Papers

Cohen is the co-author of the following most cited papers, ranked from most to least cited.

References

  1. ^ "Field X". Harvard Business School.
  2. ^ "Field Y". Harvard Business School.
  3. ^ "ExSight Ventures". ExSight Ventures.
  4. ^ "Hedge Fund Management 2007: Speakers". CFA Institute. Archived from the original on 2007-04-02. Retrieved 2007-09-16.
  5. ^ "Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired". Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
  6. ^ "Dangerous Vision Podcast". Massachusetts Association for the Blind and Visually Impaired.
  7. ^ "Dangerous Vision – Technology, therapies and practical advice for those living life with low vision".
  8. ^ "Randy Cohen". J! Archive. Retrieved 2008-10-15.
  9. ^ "a Philadelphia 76ers community". Liberty Ballers. May 29, 2023.
  10. ^ "top 30 NBA Player?". 27 April 2018.
  11. ^ "Randolph B. Cohen - Publications and Course Materials". President and Fellows of Harvard College. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
  12. ^ "Christopher Polk - Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). London School of Economics. Retrieved 2007-09-10.
  13. ^ "Research". chicagogsb.edu. Retrieved 2007-09-10.

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