Koehn is a business historian at
Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences and has been a
business historian at
Harvard Business School, since 2011 (some online sources say 1991). She began as a Visiting Scholar (2011–2013), then was offered the James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, which she has held since 2013. Her predecessor in that endowed Chair was
James Cash Jr. Koehn is widely quoted on radio and television, and is a regular featured contributor to
WGBH, an
NPR radio station in
Boston, Massachusetts, near
Harvard Business School. She has been a speaker at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Aspen Institute Ideas Festival, and the World Business Forum, and has appeared on
American Experience,
Good Morning America,
Bloomberg Television,
CNBC's
Moneywheel,
The NewsHour,
A&E's
Biography,
CNN's
Money Line, and many other television programs. She writes regularly for
The New York Times,
The Washington Post,
The Huffington Post, and the
Harvard Business Review Online, and is a regular commentator on
BBC. Numerous corporations consult with her for strategic guidance. She is also a director of
Fashion To Figure, a clothing retailer, and of
Tempur Sealy International.
Academic appointments • 2004–2011, lecturer, History and Literature concentration, Department of Economics,
Faculty of Arts and Sciences,
Harvard University,
Cambridge, MA • 2011–2013, visiting scholar,
Harvard Business School,
Allston, Massachusetts • 2013–present, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration,
Harvard Business School,
Allston, Massachusetts == Author ==