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

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

• Entrepreneurship
• Innovation
• Venture finance and acceleration
• Industry evolution
• Corporate strategy

• Cohen S, Fehder DC, Hochberg YV, Murray F. 2019. The Design of Startup Accelerators. Research Policy. 
• Hallen BL, Cohen SL, Bingham C. 2020. Do Accelerators Work? If So, How? Organization Science.
• Cohen SL, Bingham BB, Hallen BL. 2019. Mitigating the Bounded Rationality of New Ventures: The Role of Accelerator Designs. Administrative Science Quarterly. An earlier version published in the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings.
• 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.