Extending prior work studying how managers can lift productivity, we examine a low-cost, information-based intervention that is conducted by other agents in the work environment. Specifically, we study social nudges on online platforms whereby co-users connected with a worker on a platform (or...

Problem Definition: Content promotion policies are playing an increasingly important role in improving content consumption and user engagement for online content platforms. However, a frequently used promotion policy generally neglects employing the diffusion effect within a crowd of users. In...