Peter Lewis Allen

{{Short description|American scholar of sexual health history}}

Peter Lewis Allen (born 1957) is an American executive coach, business executive, and academic. His business work focuses on corporate and individual growth. His academic research includes people management and numerous areas of the humanities.

Education and career

Allen earned a B.A. in classics and English from Haverford College, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of Chicago.{{Cite web |title=Peter L. Allen, Vice President, External Affairs | work=Agoda: Check in, step out |url=https://www.agoda.com/press/leadership/john-brown/greg-wong/peter-l-allen?cid=1844104 |accessdate=2020-06-12 |publisher=Agoda}} He taught literature for a time at institutions including Princeton University, the University of Southern California, Pomona College, Yale-National University of Singapore College, Nanyang Business School, and Hult International Business School.{{cn|date=June 2020}} He went back to earn an M.B.A. from the Wharton School in 2000, at which time he left academia for the business world.{{cn|date=June 2020}} He has held positions at McKinsey & Company, at Google University, at Agoda (part of the [https://www.bookingholdings.com/ Booking Holdings] online travel group), [https://aplgroup.com/ APL Group], and [https://aegisventures.com/ Aegis Ventures]. He is the managing director of [https://www.allenstrategies.com/ Allen Strategies LLC], an executive coaching and HR strategy consulting firm. Allen is also an ICF-certified executive coach and a graduate of the Hudson Institute of Coaching.

Academic work

Allen's research focuses on management, human resources, and culture, history, and sexuality.

Allen has published articles in the McKinsey Quarterly,{{Cite web |title=Toward a new HR philosophy {{!}} McKinsey |url=https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/people-and-organizational-performance/our-insights/toward-a-new-hr-philosophy |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=www.mckinsey.com}} the MIT-Sloan Management Review,{{Cite web |last=Allen |first=Omri Morgenshtern, Robert Rosenstein, and Peter L. |date=2022-03-08 |title=The Quest for a Killer KPI |url=https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/the-quest-for-a-killer-kpi/ |access-date=2024-03-25 |website=MIT Sloan Management Review |language=en-US}} the [https://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/nyregion/new-york-observed-driving-mr-cohn.html New York Times], and numerous other publications.

In 2007, Allen donated his collection of safe sex pamphlets to the Fales Library at NYU. This collection contains material relating to sexual health issues from 1974 to 2007.{{cite web |url=http://dlib.nyu.edu/findingaids/html/fales/mss_199/ |title=Guide to the Peter Lewis Allen Collection of Safe Sex Pamphlets MSS.199 |publisher=New York University|department=Fales Library |accessdate=2020-06-09}}

Books

  • {{cite book|last1=Rosenstein|first1=Robert|last2=Allen|first2=Peter Lewis|title=At Home around the World: The Short-Term Rentals Handbook for Guests, Hosts, Neighbors, and Governments|publisher=Agoda Outside|year=2018}}{{cite news|newspaper=Manila Times|url=https://www.manilatimes.net/2018/12/26/business/real-estate-and-property/at-home-around-the-world-provides-insights-on-home-sharing/487018/487018/|title=At Home Around the World provides insights on home-sharing|date=December 26, 2018}}
  • {{cite book|last=Allen|first=Peter Lewis|title=The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lpL5WGCNMwAC|date=June 2002|publisher=University of Chicago Press|isbn=978-0-226-01461-6}}Reviews of The Wages of Sin:
  • {{cite journal|last1=Wilson|first1=Philip K.|title=Peter Lewis Allen, The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present (book review) |journal=Isis|volume=93|issue=1|year=2002|pages=96–97|issn=0021-1753|doi=10.1086/343266}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Worboys|first1=Michael|title=Peter Lewis Allen, The wages of sin: sex and disease, past and present (book review)|journal=Medical History|volume=46|issue=1|year=2012|pages=125–126|issn=0025-7273|doi=10.1017/S0025727300068939|doi-access=free}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Aieta|first1=Joseph|title=The Wages of Sin: Sex and Disease, Past and Present (book review)|journal=Sixteenth Century Journal|volume=33|issue=4|year=2002|pages=1217|issn=0361-0160|doi=10.2307/4144216|jstor=4144216}}
  • {{cite journal|last1=Fee|first1=Elizabeth|last2=Garofalo|first2=Mary E.|issue=1|journal=History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences|jstor=23332497|pages=138–140|title=Peter Lewis Allen, The wages of sin: sex and disease, past and present (book review)|volume=25|year=2003}}
  • {{cite journal|last=Morman|first=Edward T.|date=July 2001|issue=3|journal=Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences|jstor=24623975|pages=292–293|title=Peter Lewis Allen, The wages of sin: sex and disease, past and present (book review)|volume=56|doi=10.1093/jhmas/56.3.292}}

  • {{cite book|last=Allen|first=Peter Lewis|title=The Art of Love: amatory fiction from Ovid to the Romance of the Rose|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PplZAAAAMAAJ|year=1992|publisher=University of Pennsylvania Press|isbn=978-0-8122-3188-5}}Reviews of The Art of Love:
  • {{cite journal|last1=Dornbush|first1=Jean|title=The Art of Love: Amatory Fiction from Ovid to the "Romance of the Rose.". Peter L. Allen (book review)|journal=Speculum|volume=69|issue=3|year=1994|pages=726–727|issn=0038-7134|doi=10.2307/3040849 | jstor = 3040849}}
  • {{cite journal | title=The Art of Love: Amatory Fiction from Ovid to the 'Romance of the Rose' by Peter L. Allen (book review)|last=Hill|first=Jillian|journal=Medium Ævum | jstor = 43629765 | volume=63 | issue=2 | year=1994 | issn=0025-8385 | doi=10.2307/43629765 | page=341}}
  • {{cite journal|last=Classen|first=Albrecht|journal=Mediaevistik|jstor=42584634|pages=283–285|title=The Art of Love: Amatory Fiction from Ovid to the 'Romance of the Rose' by Peter L. Allen (book review)|volume=8|year=1995}}
  • {{cite journal|last=Martindale|first=Charles|date=June 1994|doi=10.1093/nq/41-2-225|issue=2|journal=Notes and Queries|pages=225–227|title=The Art of Love: Amatory Fiction from Ovid to the 'Romance of the Rose' by Peter L. Allen (book review)|volume=41}}

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