Lauren Cohen

Lauren Harry Cohen is an American financial economist who is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard University's Business School. He was a nationally ranked powerlifting champion. He was previously an assistant professor at Yale University's School of Management.

Early life and education Cohen is the son of an orthopedic surgeon and a nurse. He was raised in the village of Waverly of Tioga County, New York. From a young age, he had known that he would go into finance, dressing up as a stockbroker for Halloween in the third grade. He also started his impressive resume young- in high school, he was not only a tuba player in the high school marching band, making tuba first chair at the Allstate band competition, he was a division champion tennis player, captain of the gridiron football team, and was even recruited to play football in college. In addition, he was also the class valedictorian at Waverly High School. Cohen started his religious journey young too, notably skipping one of his high school football games for the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur. Cohen graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School in 2001, and graduated with both an M.B.A. and a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business in 2005. He again received Smith Breeden recognition for "Economic Links and Predictable Returns" (with Andrea Frazzini) from the August 2008 Journal of Finance and "Sell Side School Ties" (with Christopher J. Malloy, and Andrea Frazzini) from August 2010 Journal of Finance. Cohen was also awarded a National Science Foundation CAREER grant.

Personal Cohen is Jewish, and is religious. He currently raises six children (Eva, Asher, Edith, Henry, Samuel, Oscar) in a kosher home in Belmont, Massachusetts with his wife, Nicole Cohen, a professor at BU. Cohen considers his family his first priority - when asked to describe himself in a well-known CNBC article, he said, "Adoring father - everything else is a footnote."