2006, 4 pages
Interview by: Alistair Craven
Don Cohen is a writer, researcher, and consultant on organizational knowledge and social capital whose articles on those subjects have appeared in Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Knowledge Management, and Knowledge and Process Management.
Don created and edited Groundwork, the newsletter of the Ernst & Young Center for Business Innovation knowledge management programme, and Knowledge Directions, the journal of the IBM Institute for Knowledge Management. With Laurence Prusak he is co-author of In Good Company: How Social Capital Makes Organizations Work. With Robert Putnam and Lewis Feldstein, he researched and wrote Better Together: Restoring the American Community, published by Simon & Schuster.
Don Cohen has worked with colleagues Laurence Prusak and Alvin Jacobson on a project (sponsored by CAF, the Andean development bank) to apply organizational knowledge and social capital principles to economic development in several Latin American countries. He is currently a research associate with Babson College's Working Knowledge programme and Managing Editor of NASA's ASK magazine.
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