We study the value of price discrimination in large social networks. Recent trends in industry suggest that increasingly firms are using information about social network to offer personalized prices to individuals based upon their positions in the social network. In the presence of positive...

Problem: Home-sharing professional investors have been actively purchasing properties to rent on home-sharing platforms for profit. Policy makers in different cities have various attitudes towards these investors: some pass regulations to restrict their investments yet others legitimize them. It...

With the proliferation of digital social networks and social media like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, businesses increasingly used referral programs to increase market exposure and sales. We study the interactions between social learning and referral programs and examine their impact on...

Online wellness and fitness platforms are increasingly utilizing social support in their wellness programs to motivate healthy activities and improve user engagement. However, many wellness programs suffer from high churn rates that discount their expected efficacy. This introduces negative...

Much of the previous research on supply network resilience examined what capabilities firms should develop and how they develop the capabilities as resilience investment. However, what has received less attention is where to invest resilience in the network. Scholars have debated over what nodes...