My name is Thomas Jungbauer, I am Assistant Professor of Strategy & Business Economics at the SC Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. I am first and foremost interested in the role that information plays in organizations, markets and their design. My research invokes applied theory models as well as empirical and simulation techniques if problems warrant a multi-method approach. In particular, I am interested in how information shapes the industrial organization of the digital economy, innovation and high-skill labor markets. In particular, I strive to understand the management and strategy of firms, their workers and consumers in these markets, specifically digital platforms, and how their actions determine market outcomes. More recently, I have been investigating how the design and organization of these markets is affected by the emergence of artificial intelligence.

I received my PhD in Managerial Economics & Strategy from the departments Managerial Economics & Decision Sciences (MEDS) and Strategy at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 2016. Currently I teach Business Strategy in the 2-year resident MBA, the Executive MBA Americas and MBA/FMBA dual degree Cornell-Tsinghua programs at Johnson, while I previously taught Business Strategy in the Accelerated MBA and the Cornell Tech MBA programs at Cornell University and Shaping Organizational Strategy for Executives at the Ministry of Investment for the Kingdom of Saudi-Arabia (MISA). During my PhD, I co-taught Business Analytics II in the 2-year Resident MBA Program and Principles of Pricing in the Kellogg Certificate Honors Program for Undergraduates at Northwestern University.

Check out my NEW PAPERS:

Selling Synergies
– SLIDES from a Busines Analytics & Decision Sciences (BADS) Talk at WU Vienna, 04/2026

The Disruption of Attention Platforms by Generative AI (w Chenyang Li, Xun Wu & Fei Xiao)
– SLIDES from a Busines Analytics & Decision Sciences (BADS) Talk at WU Vienna, 04/2026

Reputation, Referrals, (and Artificial Intelligence) (w Yi Chen & Mark Satterthwaite)
– SLIDES from the Theory Seminar at the Department of Economics at Boston College, 09/2025
– SLIDES from the Antitrust@Cornell25 Workshop at Cornell University, 05/2025
– SLIDES from the Theory Workshop at the Department of Economics at the University of Toronto, 03/2025

Managerial Poaching and Talent Reallocation (w Daniela Scur, Fabiano Dal-Ri & Yi Chen)
– SLIDES from the Management and Strategy Seminar at Hong Kong University (HKU), 02/2026
– SLIDES from the NBER Summer Institute 2025 Personnel Economics at Royal Sonesta Cambridge, 07/2025
– SLIDES form NBER Organizational Economics Working Group Spring 2025 at Royal Sonesta Cambridge, 04/2025
– SLIDES from the Empirical Management Conference (EMC) 2024 at Harvard Business School, 12/2024

Better Applications, Worse Matching: Artificial Intelligence and Talent Allocation

The Governance of Abundance: Generative AI, Selective Permeability, and Complementor Strategy

JUST ACCEPTED & PUBLISHED PAPERS:

Search Platforms: Big Data and Sponsored Positions
(w Maarten C.W. Janssen, Marcel Preuss & Cole Williams)
Economic Journal ueag002, 2026

Optimally Informative Rankings and Consumer Search
(w Maarten C.W. Janssen, Marcel Preuss & Cole Williams)
International Journal of Industrial Organization 103282, 2026

The Organization of Innovation: Incomplete Contracts and the Outsourcing Decision
(w Sean Nicholson, June Pan, Michael Waldman & Lucy X. Wang)
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics 18(2): 56-109, 2026

Strategic Wage Posting, Market Power, and Mismatch
Journal of Labor Economics 44(2): 481-514, 2026

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