Allan Cohen (1938- ), visited IIMA between 1963 and 1965 as a Ford Foundation Consultant while he was pursuing his doctoral studies at the Harvard Business School. He had earlier done his MBA at Harvard in 1959-61, done case research in the Philippines as a HBS Research Assistant in 1961-62 and eventually completed his PhD in Organizational Behaviour in 1967 with a dissertation on family business in India. He later worked as a faculty member of the University of New Hampshire (1966-82) and thereafter was a faculty at Babson College where he became the Distinguished Professor of Global Leadership.

He was a part of the IIMA Oral History Project and in this interview, he recounted his time at IIMA doing case research in the Organizational Behaviour area and teaching on a few occasions, the interaction with students and faculty, observations on hierarchy and the IIMA-HBS relationship in the formative years.

Date of Birth: 1938