Cohen’s current research focuses on questions about how tasks are bundled into jobs and jobs bundled into organizations: how and why jobs and organizations look the way they do, how they change, and how they influence organizational success? Most recently she has examined these issues in startups. She has ongoing projects examining hiring and unusualness in top management structure of startups. Her research has been published in Academy of Management Journal, Administrative Science Quarterly, American Journal of Sociology, American Sociological Review and Organization Science.