Bo Cowgill
Assistant Professor
Management
Stanford University, BA, 2004; University of California, Berkeley, MS, 2011; University of California, Berkeley, PhD, 2015
Joined CBS in 2016
Office:
955
Kravis
Phone:
650-492-8252
E-mail:
[email protected]
Fax:
212-854-3778
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae
Biography
Bo Cowgill is an Assistant Professor at Columbia Business School, a research affiliate at CESifo, and a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. His elective, People Analytics and Strategy, won The Aspen Institute's 2019 Ideas Worth Teaching Award. He was also named to Poets and Quants’ 2020 list of Best 40 Business School Professors Under 40.
He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, and won the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship, the Robert Beyster Fellowship and the CESifo Prize. At Columbia, he also has affiliations with the Data Science Institute and Zuckerman Institute. His research interests are in applied microeconomics and strategy, particularly productivity, technological innovation, organizations and platforms.
Memberships & Affiliations
$50K
Teaching
Spring 2022
People Analytics and Strategy
(MBA)
Advanced Strategy: Topics and Methods II
(PHD)
Summer 2021
People Analytics and Strategy
(MBA)
People Analytics and Strategy
(EMBA)
Fall 2021
Spring 2020
People Analytics and Strategy
(EMBA)
People Analytics and Strategy
(MBA)
(PhD) Research Methods
(PHD)
Advanced Strategy: Topics and Methods II
(PHD)
Summer 2020
People Analytics and Strategy
(MBA)
People Analytics and Strategy
(EMBA)
Fall 2020
Spring 2019
NYC Immersion Seminar: Technology Disruption
(MBA)
(PhD) Research Methods
(PHD)
Summer 2019
People Analytics and Strategy
(MBA)
Spring 2018
NYC Immersion Seminar: Technology Disruption
(MBA)
Advanced Strategy: Topics and Methods II
(PHD)
Research
Journal articles
Algorithmic Social Engineering
In American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings
(forthcoming)
Coauthor(s): Bo Cowgill, M. Stevenson
Do Workers Comply with Salary History Bans? A Survey on Voluntary Disclosure, Adverse Selection, and Unraveling
In American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings
(2020)
Coauthor(s): A. Agan, Bo Cowgill, L. Gee
The Managerial Effects of Algorithmic Fairness Activism
In American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings
(2020)
Coauthor(s): Bo Cowgill, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Sandra Matz
Corporate Prediction Markets: Evidence from Google, Ford, and Firm X
In Review of Economic Studies
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Bo Cowgill, Eric Zitzewitz
The Value of Hiring Through Employee Referrals
In The Quarterly Journal of Economics
(2015)
Coauthor(s): Bo Cowgill, Stephen Burks, Mitch Hoffman, Michael Housman
Television Advertising and Online Search
In Management Science
(2014)
Coauthor(s): Bo Cowgill, Mingyu Joo, Kenneth C. Wilbur, Yi Zhu
Working papers
Agency and Homophily: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit Study
(2019)
Coauthor(s): Bo Cowgill, Dan Wang
In The Media
Artificial Intelligence Is Increasingly Being Used to Make Workplace Decisions–but Human Intelligence Remains Vital
The World’s Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors
The 10 Most Forward-Thinking Business Courses of 2019
A.I. as Talent Scout: Unorthodox Hires, and Maybe Lower Pay
Overcoming AI’s Challenge in Hiring: Avoid Human Bias
Press Releases
Awards And Honors
Award
. Competitive research award for junior faculty in innovation and/or entrepreneurship.
Finalist Society for Business Ethics Division Academy of Manangement 2016
Finalist Technology in Management Division Academy of Management 2016
The W.E. Upjohn Institute Early Career Research Award 2016
Finalist BPS (Strategy) Division Academy of Management 2016
The Society for Instituational & Organizational Economics 2016