Remarks by Dean Cohen and Senate Co-Presidents

Jake Cohen

Senior Associate Dean, Undergraduate and Master's Programs; Senior Lecturer in Accounting and Law

Jake Cohen is Senior Associate Dean for Undergraduate and Master's Programs, as well as a 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 the 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 among business school MBA programs. Jake also served as a member of the Deans' Leadership Team, overseeing every aspect of the academic experience in all programs. In 2012, he spent his post-deanship sabbatical teaching financial management as a Judge Fellow at Cambridge University and as a Research Fellow studying corporate social responsibility reporting at Oxford University's Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment.

Before becoming dean, Jake was director of the INSEAD-PricewaterhouseCoopers Research Initiative on High Performance Organizations. He was founder, director, and professor of INSEAD's Business Foundations Program, as well as Affiliate Professor of Accounting and Control and Business Law. Before joining INSEAD in 2003, he was a Senior Teaching Fellow at Harvard Business School in the Accounting & Management Group.

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 and the AVIRA certificate, for the most senior executives, at INSEAD.