Bo Cowgill is an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management and a 2026-2027 Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation.
He is also affiliated with CESifo, IZA@LISER, and the Stigler Center at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
His research uses field experiments, economic theory, and large-scale administrative data to study organizational economics, political economy, and innovation. He is particularly interested in how firms design labor markets, platforms, and information systems, with recent work on hiring, technological change, AI-mediated communication, and the political economy of firms and markets.
Before joining Rotman, he was an Assistant Professor at Columbia Business School from 2016 to 2026. Before entering academia, he worked at Google in engineering, product management, and economic research.
He has received the Kauffman Junior Faculty Fellowship, the Robert Beyster Fellowship, the CESifo Prize, and the Long Term Impact Award from Management Science. He was also named to Poets & Quants' 2020 list of the Best 40 Business School Professors Under 40. His elective, People Analytics and Strategy, received the Aspen Institute's 2019 Ideas Worth Teaching Award. From 2018 to 2024, he was a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
