The “going public” process is under strain, as the characteristics of companies going public, and the investor base investing in those companies’ IPOs, has changed. In addition to companies going public with more unformed business models, many of these companies market themselves to...

Micromobility services have grown significantly in recent years, but their impact upon consumer purchase behavior has remained largely unstudied. The authors estimate how the largest and fastest growing subsegment of the micromobility market – the dockless electric scooter (‘e-scooter’)...

Increasingly, applied researchers study problems for which multiple sources of data are available. These sources may come with varying degrees of aggregation, and some of them may not be representative of the population of interest. Utilizing multiple data sources could lead to richer insights....

There is growing interest in "customer-based corporate valuation," explicitly tying the value of a firm's customer base to its overall financial valuation using publicly disclosed data. While much progress has been made in building a well-validated customer-based valuation model for contractual...

The growth of subscription-based commerce has seen a change in the types of data firms report to external shareholders. More than ever before, companies are discussing and disclosing data on the number of customers acquired and lost, customer lifetime value, and more. This has fueled an...