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 an applied theorist interested in the role that information plays in organizations, markets and their design. My research, however, also applies 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, 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 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 Johnson, Shaping Organizational Strategy for Executives at the Ministry of Investment for the Kingdom of Saudi-Arabia (MISA), and Principles of Pricing in the Kellogg Certificate Honors Program for Undergraduates at Northwestern.

Check out my NEW PAPERS

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 Yi Chen, Fabiano Dal-Ri & Daniela Scur)
– 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.

Education Signaling and Employer Heterogeneity (w Yuhan Chen & Michael Waldman)
– SLIDES from the SEA Annual Meeting 2025 at Tampa, FL, 11/2025.

Optimally Informative Rankings and Consumer Search (w Maarten C.W. Janssen, Marcel Preuss & Cole Williams)
– SLIDES from the Theory@Chapel Hill 2025 Conference at UNC, 11/2025.

Those JUST ACCEPTED

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

Actions and Signals (w Michael Waldman)
Journal of Economic Theory 230: 106100, 2025.

And OTHERS on my RESEARCH PAGE. See my RESEARCH STATEMENT HERE.