Bo Cowgill
- Assistant Professor
- Management Division

- Areas of Expertise
- Decision Making & Negotiations, Digital Future Initiative, Leadership & Organizational Behavior, Marketplace Design, Microeconomics, Organizations & Markets, Strategy
- Contact
- Office: 955 Kravis
- Phone: (650) 4928252
- E-mail: [email protected]
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.
- Education
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Stanford University, BA, 2004; University of California, Berkeley, MS, 2011; University of California, Berkeley, PhD, 2015
- Joined CBS
- 2016
All Activities
AI’s Wrench in the Job Application Process: New Research Exposes the Global Hiring Dilemma
Amnesty’s Impact on Entrepreneurship: Immigration Pardons Can Spur Economic Development