Professor Raith joined the Simon School in 2002. He has also spent time as full-time or visiting faculty at the University of Chicago, USC, and MIT.
His research interests include the economics of organizations and industrial economics. He has worked on pricing strategies in the presence of market uncertainty, the effects of financial constraints on firms' behavior in product markets, incentive contracting and performance evaluation in organizations, and the interaction between incentives and communication in various principal-agent settings. Raith's work has been published in the American Economic Review, RAND Journal of Economics, Journal of Economic Theory, International Journal of Industrial Organization, Journal of Law, Economics and Organization and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis.
Prof. Raith teaches Competitive Strategy and Organizational Design, both in separate courses and combined. He has been named to the Teaching Honor several times, most recently in 2025 and 2026.