Jake Cohen is Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Master’s Programs and Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Law. He oversees MIT Sloan’s portfolio of degree programs, as well as the Offices of Admissions, Student Life, and Career Development.
From 2008 to 2011, Jake was Dean of the MBA Program at INSEAD, directing strategy and operations for campuses in France, Singapore, and Abu Dhabi. Under his leadership, INSEAD expanded its degree programs and received its highest rankings ever. Prior to serving as dean, Jake served as director of the INSEAD-PricewaterhouseCoopers Research Initiative on High Performance Organizations, the school’s largest research center.
In 2012, he spent his post-deanship sabbatical teaching financial management as a Judge Fellow at Cambridge University Judge Business School and as a Research Fellow studying CSR and ESG reporting at Oxford University’s Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.
Jake started his academic career as a Senior Teaching Fellow at Harvard Business School in the Accounting & Management Group where he taught MBAs and in Exec Ed programs.
Jake holds a JD in corporate law from Syracuse University, an MS in accounting from Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University, and a BS in accounting from Lehigh University. He has completed six executive certificates at Harvard Business School, the AVIRA certificate, for senior-level executives, at INSEAD, and the Leader to Leader (L2L) program at MIT.
As an academic, he has consulted for a number of organizations including: BCG; Bain; Blackstone; ArcelorMittal; Schlumberger; L3Harris, Accenture, and BMO Capital and is a Distinguished Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University’s Schwarzman Scholars Program.