Neil G. Cohen
Title: Associate Professor of Finance
Department: Finance
Address: Funger Hall, Suite 501B
Phone: (202) 994-7276
Email: ngcohen@gwu.edu
Degrees: D.B.A., Darden School of Business, University of Virginia
M.B.A., University of Michigan
Area of Expertise: Corporate Financial Management, Personal Financial Advising, Portfolio Management, Case Study Teaching, Distance/Online Learning Packages
Publications: Obstacles to Trade, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness: Ten Case Studies on Balkan Businesses.
Editorial Positions: Editorial Board-Case Research Journal
Professional Activities: Management Development Programs-Financial Decision Making for General Managers
Current Research: Online Learning (Distance Education) Works!; Classroom Dynamics: Surveillance and Analysis
Grants: Fulbright Scholar - Budapest, Hungary
Other: Cohen specializes in case-study teaching where students “learn by doing.” He uses this pedagogy in the B.B.A., M.B.A., Executive M.B.A., and M.S. in Finance programs, and in short courses for managers. He was surprised and pleased to find that this active teaching/learning approach succeeds in on-line courses he designed and taught.
He wrote one of the first books combining computerized spreadsheets and financial analysis. He was the impresario for a casebook “Obstacles to Trade, Growth, Investment and Competitiveness” about businesses in the Balkan states. His manuscript “Personal Financial Advising” is used to train professional personal financial advisors.
He leads management development programs for such companies as ABB Prague, Coca-Cola Moscow, Creditanstaldt, Kraft Jacobs Suchard, Hungarian Oil & Gas Company, US Steel-Slovakia, and Oracle, as well as open programs in Croatia and Latvia.