Bo Cowgill

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Assistant Professor
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Management Division
- Areas of Expertise
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- Leadership & Organizational Behavior
- Strategy
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
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2016
All Activities
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Journal Article
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“Biased Programmers? Or Biased Data? A Field Experiment in Operationalizing AI Ethics.”
Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
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2020
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(June 01, 2020):
679
-681
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Journal Article
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“Do Workers Comply with Salary History Bans? A Survey on Voluntary Disclosure, Adverse Selection, and Unraveling.”
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings
vol.
110
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(May 01, 2020):
215
-19
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Journal Article
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“The Managerial Effects of Algorithmic Fairness Activism.”
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings
vol.
110
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(May 01, 2020):
85
-90
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Journal Article
Cowgill, Bo and Eric Zitzewitz
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“Corporate Prediction Markets: Evidence from Google, Ford, and Firm X.”
Review of Economic Studies
vol.
82
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(October 01, 2015):
1309
-1341
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Journal Article
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“The Value of Hiring Through Employee Referrals.”
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
vol.
130
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(May 01, 2015):
805
-839
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Journal Article
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“Television Advertising and Online Search.”
Management Science
vol.
60
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(January 01, 2014):
56
-73
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Working Paper
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The Economic Effects of Immigration Pardons: Evidence from Venezuelan Entrepreneurs. November 01, 2022.
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Working Paper
Cowgill, Bo and Dan Wang
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Agency and Homophily: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit Study. January 01, 2019.
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Newspaper/Magazine Article
Cowgill, Bo and M. Stevenson
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“Algorithmic Social Engineering.”
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings
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Forthcoming.
- Type
- Course
B8590: People Analytics and Strategy
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- Course
B7590: People Analytics and Strategy
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- Course
B9528: Research Methods II
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- In the Media
The 10 Most Forward-Thinking Business Courses of 2019
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- In the Media
The World's Best 40 Under 40 MBA Professors
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- In the Media