Aharon Cohen-Mohliver

Aharon Cohen Mohliver is an Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at London Business School. He holds a PhD from Columbia Business School. 

His research examines why organisations engage in behaviours that are harmful, contested, or ethically ambiguous — and how social networks, inter-organisational processes, professional norms, and polarised social environment impact performance, and whether such behaviours start, spread, persist, or stop. 

Aharon’s research examines how organisations navigate contested boundaries of legitimacy, with a particular focus on misconduct and social polarisation. In one stream of work, he studies ethically liminal practices — practices that are in the grey area between what is acceptable and what is clearly wrongful — and explores how networks, organisational environments, and strategic narratives can allow harmful practices to emerge and spread before they are recognised as illegal. In a related stream, he investigates how social polarisation shapes corporate strategy and stakeholder evaluation, examining how firms respond to contested social issues and how periods of social upheaval can reshape judgments of analysts, leaders and firms, often with broader consequences for markets and society. 

Aharon’s work has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Management Science, Organization Science, the Strategic Management Journal, and the Journal of Business Ethics. He contributes regularly to outlets including Fortune, the Financial Times, and Forbes, translating research into practical insights for managers and policymakers. 

At London Business School, Aharon has taught the Strategic Management core courses, Strategic Analysis, Sociological Foundations of Strategy, and Behavioural Strategy across the EMBA, MBA, Master's in Management, Executive Education, and PhD programmes. 

Aharon holds a bachelor’s degree in philosophy, political science, and economics, summa cum laude, from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.