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Bo Cowgill

Assistant Professor
Management Division
Bo Cowgill, Assistant Professor
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]
Links
Personal Website
Curriculum Vitae

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
Stanford University, BA, 2004; University of California, Berkeley, MS, 2011; University of California, Berkeley, PhD, 2015
Joined CBS
2016

All Activities

  • Research
  • Teaching
  • Awards and Honors
  • Press
  • Journal articles
  • Working papers
  • Articles
  • Books
  • Chapters
Type
Journal Article
Cowgill, Bo, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Samuel Deng, Daniel Hsu, Nakul Verma, and Augustin Chaintreau
. “Biased Programmers? Or Biased Data? A Field Experiment in Operationalizing AI Ethics.”
Proceedings of the 21st ACM Conference on Economics and Computation
vol.
2020
, (June 01, 2020):
679
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681
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Type
Journal Article
Agan, A., Bo Cowgill, and L. Gee
. “Do Workers Comply with Salary History Bans? A Survey on Voluntary Disclosure, Adverse Selection, and Unraveling.”
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings
vol.
110
, (May 01, 2020):
215
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19
.
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Type
Journal Article
Cowgill, Bo, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, and Sandra Matz
. “The Managerial Effects of Algorithmic Fairness Activism.”
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings
vol.
110
, (May 01, 2020):
85
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90
.
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Type
Journal Article
Cowgill, Bo and Eric Zitzewitz
. “Corporate Prediction Markets: Evidence from Google, Ford, and Firm X.”
Review of Economic Studies
vol.
82
, (October 01, 2015):
1309
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1341
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Type
Journal Article
Cowgill, Bo, Stephen Burks, Mitch Hoffman, and Michael Housman
. “The Value of Hiring Through Employee Referrals.”
The Quarterly Journal of Economics
vol.
130
, (May 01, 2015):
805
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839
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Type
Journal Article
Cowgill, Bo, Mingyu Joo, Kenneth C. Wilbur, and Yi Zhu
. “Television Advertising and Online Search.”
Management Science
vol.
60
, (January 01, 2014):
56
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73
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Type
Working Paper
Cowgill, Bo, Jorge Guzman, and Dany Bahar
. The Economic Effects of Immigration Pardons: Evidence from Venezuelan Entrepreneurs. November 01, 2022.
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Type
Working Paper
Cowgill, Bo and Dan Wang
. Agency and Homophily: Evidence from a Two-Sided Audit Study. January 01, 2019.
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Type
Newspaper/Magazine Article
Cowgill, Bo and M. Stevenson
. “Algorithmic Social Engineering.”
American Economic Association Papers and Proceedings
. Forthcoming.
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  • Courses
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Type
Course
B8590: People Analytics and Strategy
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Type
Course
B7590: People Analytics and Strategy
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Type
Course
B9528: Research Methods II
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Type
Course
B9521: Advanced Strategy: Topics and Methods
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Artificial Intelligence Is Increasingly Being Used to Make Workplace Decisions–but Human Intelligence Remains Vital

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