Bo Cowgill is Assistant Professor at Columbia Business School and a research affiliate at CESifo and IZA. His research interests are in organizations and strategy, and particularly productivity, technological innovation, digitization, and personnel. His Ph.D. is from UC Berkeley.

Bo Cowgill won the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship, the Robert Beyster Fellowship and the CESifo Prize. He was also named to Poets and Quants’ 2020 list of Best 40 Business School Professors Under 40.

At Columbia, Bo Cowgill is also affiliated with the Data Science Institute and Zuckerman Institute. His elective, People Analytics and Strategy, won The Aspen Institute's 2019 Ideas Worth Teaching Award. From 2018-2024, he is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.