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Raphael H. Cohen
Born1953
Cairo, Egypt[1]
NationalitySwiss
Alma materUniversity of Geneva
Occupation(s)Principal, Management Boosters, Professor, Academic director, Author, Speaker
Organization(s)University of Geneva
Thunderbird School of Global Management
Known forIpOp Model

Raphael H. Cohen is a Swiss professor, lecturer, author, serial entrepreneur, former business angel and academic director at MBA programs.[2][3] He has a PhD in economics from University of Geneva, Switzerland.[4]

He is the owner and managing director of Getratex SA,[5] as well as Academic Fellow at the University of Geneva.[6] From 2001 to 2021, Cohen served as an academic co-director of the Entrepreneurial Leadership and business development specialization of the eMBA at the University of Geneva.[7] He has also been a professor at Thunderbird University.[8][9]

Cohen established the first entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship education programs at a number of institutions, including the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL).[6][9]

Cohen created the IpOp Model, an approach to innovation and corporate entrepreneurship.[10][11] This model is one of several attempting to help companies in their innovation management.[12]

Life and early career

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Cohen started his career at Getratex SA in 1975, where his first intrapreneurial opportunity was to create a new business unit to sell clothing.[13] In 1977, this unit obtained Disney licenses for clothes.[14] To reduce his exposure to the fashion industry, in 1980 he initiated a diversification, which led him to invest in several startups.[15] Since he became a business angel Cohen has been involved in many businesses including tourist attractions, theming of public areas, surface treatments, financial derivatives, internet marketing, software, skin treatments, retail, real estate, construction and high-tech projects. As a trusted advisor for several large corporations, he became an expert in corporate innovation and intrapreneurship.[16][17]

In 1982 he received his Ph.D. in Business Administration[18] while managing a group of international companies and several start-ups of which he has been the head.[8]

Cohen has been a board member of numerous companies, including a Swiss Bank, and columnist for various sector newspapers and magazines like Harvard Business Review France, Forbes,[9] L’AGEFI, PME Magazine, Le Temps,[19] etc.

Career

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Management Boosters

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Cohen started Management Boosters in 2001, as a division of Getratex SA, to provide executive education, mentoring and lecturing services to business schools and corporations on innovation, intrapreneurship and leadership.[14]

University of Geneva

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From 2001 to 2021, Cohen was the academic co-director of the entrepreneurship specialization of the eMBA of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, an executive MBA focusing on innovation, entrepreneurship and business development.[20][21]

Academic contributions

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IpOp Model

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Cohen created the IpOp Model [fr][22] as a roadmap for the pre-project/ideation stage of opportunity or project analysis.[23] The model is meant to help innovators analyze and mature their idea to produce an opportunity case or a business plan to convince themselves as well as decision-makers, such as investors or management, of the merits of the opportunity.[24][25] It has been used by a number of companies for innovative projects including Nestlé, Oracle, Bühler, SICPA and the French Post.[26]

MicroMBA MB

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To help organizations benefit from the innovative potential of their employees Cohen has designed and implemented the MicroMBA MB program.[27][28] Combining the IpOp Model with the fundamentals taught in an executive MBA, the MicroMBA MB enables middle managers to become proactive agents of change.[29] Participants in the program must identify and implement in groups a real project of their choice that supports the strategy of their employer. These projects translate into a measurable return of investment for the organization, turning training into a profit center.[30]

Fair and Caring Leadership

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Cohen has been one of the first to talk about benevolent (or caring) leadership in an article published in 2013.[31] His additional analysis of the engagement and enforcing rules in organizations[32] led him to develop the concept of Fair and Caring Leadership[33] that he teaches in business school and executive education seminars. His book in French published in 2019 Les leviers de l’engagement – 54 bonnes pratiques pour entrainer, inspirer et réussir ensemble outlines the levers for optimizing the level of team engagement.

Bibliography

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  • Modèle de comptabilisation des transactions en devises, Cohen, Raphael, Economica, Paris, 1985[34]
  • Concevoir et lancer un projet, Cohen, Raphael, Editions d’organisation, Paris, 2006 and 2016, ISBN 2212562942, 978-2212562941[35]
  • Winning Opportunities, proven tools for converting your projects into success (without a business plan), Cohen, Raphael H, www.winning-opportunities.org, 2011, ISBN 1457507447, 978-1457507441[36]
  • Les leviers de l’engagement, Cohen, Raphael, Eyrolles, 2019, ISBN 2212573286, 978-2-212-57328-2[37][38]
  • Uncertainties in innovation, chapter of World Encyclopedia of Entrepreneurship, Léo-Paul Dana, Edward Elgar Publishing, 2020, ISBN 1839104139, 9781839104138

Academic diplomas

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  • 1975 – Licence en Sciences Commerciales et Industrielles – University of Geneva
  • 1982 – Doctorat en Sciences Economiques (Ph.D.), University of Geneva[39]
  • 1988 – Diploma of the Institute of Real Estate Studies – post graduate degree in real estate, Geneva

References

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  1. ^ "Raphaël Cohen, leader bienveillant et spécialiste en "armes d'innovations massives"". Le Temps.
  2. ^ "Raphaël H. Cohen - Tous les livres - Librairie Eyrolles". www.eyrolles.com (in French). Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  3. ^ "» Raphaël H. Cohen" (in French). Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  4. ^ "RAPHAEL COHEN SERIAL-ENTREPRENEUR and BUSINESS BOOSTER". Management Boosters. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
  5. ^ "Comment devenir un meilleur leader? Entretien avec Raphaël H. Cohen". Le Chênois. No. 545. March 1, 2020.
  6. ^ a b "Raphaël Cohen - Faculté d'économie et de management". www.unige.ch. May 19, 2021. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  7. ^ "Raphael Cohen - CEO at Getratex SA". World Entrepreneurship Forum. Archived from the original on June 20, 2013. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
  8. ^ a b "Cohen, Raphael H." Promostudio. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  9. ^ a b c "Raphael H Cohen CEO Getratex SA Management Boosters". Forbes. Archived from the original on June 9, 2020.
  10. ^ Raphael, Cohen; Heribert Watzke Jerome Katz (2010). "USASBE 2010 Workshop -IpOp Model and Opportunity Case". Retrieved June 14, 2013. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  11. ^ Ferreira, Oscar (March 25, 2015). "Les stratégies d'un " business angel " pour trouver la formule gagnante". Geneva Business News (in French). Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  12. ^ Gabardi, Chiara Spagnoli. "Voyage to the centre of innovation – Swiss Style Magazine". Swiss Style Magazine. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  13. ^ Floret, Elsa (August 7, 2018). "Comment booster la performance grâce à des collaborateurs engagés" (in French). Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  14. ^ a b "Comment faire entrer l'éthique dans son entreprise". Le Temps (in French). September 7, 2018. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  15. ^ "Les stratégies d'un " business angel " pour trouver la formule gagnante". Geneva Business News | Actualités: Emploi, RH, économie, entreprises, Genève, Suisse. (in French). March 25, 2015. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  16. ^ Hannedouche, Patrick (October 12, 2011). "Business Case ou Business Plan ? L'interview de Raphaël Cohen". Business Angel France (in French). Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  17. ^ "Comment booster la performance grâce à des collaborateurs engagés". Agefi.com (in French). Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  18. ^ Benninger, Marc (January 30, 2020). "Portrait 'Instigateur".
  19. ^ "Votre organisation pourrait-elle subir le même sort que la RTS?". Le Temps (in French). November 26, 2020. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved August 10, 2022.
  20. ^ "Hec Geneve". Website Of Universite De Geneve. Archived from the original on February 13, 2014. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
  21. ^ "Le MicroMBA de la BCGE, révélateur de talents et gage de pérennité". BCGE. 2020.
  22. ^ Hisrich, Robert D.; Al-Dabbbagh, Amr (2013). "HUG – Geneva University Hospital, Case study Appendix 4". Governpreneurship: Establishing a thriving entrepreneurial spirit in government. UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. pp. 240–249. ISBN 9781781952283. OCLC 808499089. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  23. ^ "U mbajt konferenca biznesore me Dr. Raphael Cohen". Telegrafi. September 24, 2012. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  24. ^ "Raphael Cohen CEO at Getratex SA". World Entrepreneurship Forum. Retrieved June 14, 2013.
  25. ^ "L'alternative au business plan ! Le dossier d'opportunités" (in French). November 19, 2017. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  26. ^ Bauer, Werner (January 2014). "A New Approach to Innovation at Nestlé R&D". Thunderbird International Business Review. 56 (1): 111–116. doi:10.1002/tie.21599.
  27. ^ Bourget, Albertine (March 11, 2016). "Un micro-MBA destiné aux cadres". Le Temps (in French). Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  28. ^ Baltzley, Dennis R. (January 2014). "Expanding R&D Capability Through Focused Education and True Action Learning". Thunderbird International Business Review. 56 (1): 121–122. doi:10.1002/tie.21601.
  29. ^ "Au CHUV, les médecins vont devenir des managers". Association des Médecins du canton de Genève. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  30. ^ Bauer, Werner (January 2014). "A New Approach to Innovation at Nestlé R&D". Thunderbird International Business Review. 56 (1): 111–116. doi:10.1002/tie.21599.
  31. ^ Cohen, Raphaël H. (2013). "Plaidoyer pour un leadership bienveillant". L'Expansion Management Review. 148 (1): 90. doi:10.3917/emr.148.0090.
  32. ^ Cohen, Raphaël (2010). "La justice, talon d'Achille des organisations". L'Expansion Management Review. 138 (3): 103. doi:10.3917/emr.138.0103.
  33. ^ "L'émergence du management bienveillant et équitable". October 2, 2017. Retrieved May 5, 2019.
  34. ^ Cohen, Raphaël (1985). Modèle De Comptabilisation Des Transactions En Devises. Economica. ISBN 9782717810943. Retrieved June 15, 2013 – via Google.
  35. ^ Cohen, Raphael H (2016). Concevoir et lancer un projet, De l'idée au succès sans business plan (PDF). Paris: Editions d’Organisation. ISBN 978-2-212-56294-1.
  36. ^ "Turning Caterpillars Into Agile And… Passionate Butterflies". Winning Opportunities. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
  37. ^ Cohen, Raphaël (2019). Les leviers de l'engagement : 54 bonnes pratiques pour entraîner, inspirer et réussir ensemble. Yves,. Desjacques. Paris. ISBN 978-2-212-57328-2. OCLC 1140416724.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  38. ^ "Raphaël Cohen, leader bienveillant et spécialiste en «armes d'innovations massives»". Le Temps (in French). February 5, 2020. ISSN 1423-3967. Retrieved August 11, 2022.
  39. ^ "Cohen Raphael". Université de Genève. Archived from the original on June 20, 2013.
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