Unified metric SCV models subscription business revenue.
problem Analyzing revenue contribution of subscription businesses.
method Bayesian probabilistic model with exponential decay for churn.
result Exact and approximate closed-form solutions for revenue.
System tracks regulatory changes for compliance officers.
problem Struggling to keep up with regulatory changes.
method Fetch announcements, classify importance and applicability.
result Simple hierarchical classification works best.
The study compares prepaid and postpaid mobile phone users and predicts their subscription type.
problem Predicting mobile phone subscription type based on usage and network connections.
method Graph labelling approach using max-flow min-cut algorithms and indirect inference methods.
result Graph labelling approach achieves 87% classification accuracy, outperforming supervised learning methods.
Deep learning predicts customer churn from abstract features.
problem Predicting customer churn in subscription-based companies.
method Unsupervised feature learning using deep neural networks on abstract feature vectors.
result Deep learning achieves excellent churn prediction performance across different companies.
Boosting trees predict Twitch subscriptions from user activity.
problem Predicting Twitch user subscriptions from activity data.
method Used boosting trees and target-encodings for high cardinality categoricals.
result User activity can be better predicted than content alone.
Winning solution for predicting player churn in a video game.
problem Predicting when players will stop playing a game.
method Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) approach and conditional inference survival ensemble model.
result Models accurately predicted player churn and were robust to changing business models.
Maximizing product use is a central goal of many businesses, which makes retention and monetization two central analytics metrics in games. Player retention may refer to various duration variables quantifying product use: total playtime or session playtime are popular research targets, and active playtime is well-suite…
The paper models SaaS products as insurance, offering new pricing tools.
problem Modeling capped-usage SaaS products with insurance principles.
method Frequency-severity decomposition, premium calculation, Monte Carlo simulations.
result SaaS pricing can be analyzed using insurance actuarial methods.
Graph theory enhances dynamic business insights in BA models.
problem Static BA models fail to capture dynamic business insights from data.
method Integrating graph theory into BA models for extensible data-driven analytics.
result Graph theory enables automatic generation of business insights.
Paper assesses risks of stablecoins, from lending to business-to-business.
problem Credit risks in decentralized stablecoin issuance.
method Examines mechanisms, risks, and mitigation strategies at each layer.
result Potential for scaling stablecoins while maintaining systemic health.
Study shows credit expansion in mortgage markets influenced U.S. business cycle.
problem Lack of causal evidence in cross-country business cycle studies.
method Unique research design combining cross-metropolitan U.S. data.
result Credit expansion caused stronger booms and busts in house-related industries.
Large corporate credit models may be adapted for small business risk assessment.
problem Limited data and lack of credit analysts for small businesses.
method Adapting large corporate credit risk models for small businesses.
result Adapted models can predict small business credit risk effectively.
Study evaluates sustainability of European banks using a new model.
problem Lack of a framework to evaluate sustainability of banking business models.
method Delphi-Analytic Hierarchy Process method to develop and assess the model.
result Norwegian and German banks have higher sustainability of their business models.
New method builds business taxonomies from corporate reports.
problem Challenging to classify emerging market industries.
method Concept-level hierarchical clustering of annual reports.
result Automatic construction of business taxonomies.
Bayesian model uses mobile data to assess business resilience after hurricanes.
problem Evaluating economic impact of extreme shocks on businesses.
method Bayesian structural time series model with mobile phone data.
result Estimates business resilience after hurricanes, revealing key characteristics.
The study optimizes free trial lengths to boost subscriptions and consumer loyalty.
problem Optimizing free trial lengths to maximize customer acquisition and retention.
method A large-scale field experiment with personalized policy design and evaluation.
result Personalized free trial policies outperform uniform trial lengths.
Modeling business expansion as a stochastic control problem, the study finds that firms are incentivized to expand but may wait.
problem Optimizing business expansion under exposure constraints and opportunity costs.
method Formulated as a novel stochastic control problem combined with optimal stopping time, derived an explicit solution for exponential utility.
result Firms are incentivized to expand but may wait due to opportunity costs and other factors.
The biggest problem with the methods of machine learning used today in business analytics is that they do not generalize well and often fail when applied to new data. One of the possible approaches to this problem is to enrich these methods (which are almost exclusively based on statistical algorithms) with some intrin…
Endogenous business cycles explain higher comovement across countries.
problem Standard models struggle to explain high comovement in business cycles across countries.
method Developed a demand-driven reduced-form model with strategic complementarities and international trade linkages.
result Combining endogenous business cycles with exogenous shocks matches empirical comovement levels.
Machine learning predicts US and EuroZone business cycles with high accuracy.
problem Predicting the business cycle phases in US and EuroZone.
method Three machine learning approaches were compared: Multinomial Logistic Regression (MLR) achieved the best results.
result MLR achieved 65.25% accuracy for EuroZone and 75% for US in predicting business cycle phases.
The analysis of the theoretical material revealed the lack of consensus on defini-tion of the tax stimulation of innovation-active business entities within the re-gional taxation. The definition tax stimulation of innovation-active business en-tities is specified.
Examines international taxation's impact on Georgian businesses.
problem Impact of international taxation on Georgian business entities.
method Analyzes types, features, and approaches of international taxation.
result Provides recommendations to correct current taxation issues.
CONDA-PM framework helps analyze concept drift in business processes.
problem Analyzing changes in business processes over time.
method Systematic Literature Review and framework development.
result Highlights areas needing research to complement existing efforts.
The study uses CoDa to analyze family business financial ratios, highlighting methodological issues.
problem Asymmetry, non-normality, and non-linearity in financial ratios of family businesses.
method Compositional data analysis (CoDa) and classical analysis strategies.
result Results are sensitive to the methodology used, emphasizing the need for appropriate methodologies.
Study examines how business units can benefit from group cohesion under regulatory constraints.
problem Regulatory constraints limit business units' ability to form a single cohesive group.
method Defined and analyzed cohesive risk measures to minimize capital costs.
result Cohesive risk measures allow groups to achieve minimal capital costs without altering individual liabilities.
This paper studies business cycle patterns in UK sectoral output. It analyzes the distinction between white noise processes and their non-white noise counterparts in the frequency domain and further examines the associated features and patterns for the process where white noise conditions are violated. The characterist…
Development of efficient business process models and determination of their characteristic properties are subject of intense interdisciplinary research. Here, we consider a business process model as a directed graph. Its nodes correspond to the units identified by the modeler and the link direction indicates the causal…
Research shows franchised fast food companies' stock prices decline more during recessions.
problem Impact of recession on franchised fast food companies' stock prices.
method Analyzed stock price data with Weibull distribution.
result Recessions have a more severe impact on franchised fast food companies' stock prices.
New approach optimizes sales process for B2B businesses.
problem Optimizing the sales process for B2B businesses.
method Causal Predictive Optimization and Generation with three layers: prediction, optimization, and serving.
result Significant wins over legacy systems in LinkedIn implementation.
The accurate characterization of the business cycles in the nonlinear dynamic financial and economic systems in the time of globalization represents a formidable research problem. The central banks and other financial institutions make their decisions on the minimum capital requirements, countercyclical capital buffer …
Methodology calculates car insurance premiums for partial damage losses.
problem Estimating premiums for partial damage losses in automobile insurance.
method Used generalized linear models to analyze claim frequency and severity.
result Identified key variables influencing claim frequency and severity.
Business cycles affect startup valuations, both directly and indirectly.
problem How do business cycles impact startup valuations?
method Structural Equation Model approach using a dataset of 1,089 venture capital investments.
result Business cycles impact startup valuations both directly and indirectly.
New method detects business-relevant outliers in e-commerce conversion rates.
problem Identifying outliers in e-commerce conversion rate data.
method A novel unsupervised fluid IQR method that adjusts sensitivity based on platform activity.
result Fluid IQR method outperforms existing methods in business-relevance and robustness.
We propose a dynamical model for business cycle based on an optimal DI model. In the model there exists a conserved quantity, which corresponds to the total energy in a dynamical system. We found that the business cycle with the period 6 or 7 years is nicely reproduced, since the model predicts a periodic motion in the…
Deep LSTMs predict business process completion times.
problem Predicting accurate completion times for business processes under SLA constraints.
method Deep Recurrent Neural Networks (LSTMs) to analyze process instance data.
result LSTMs produce accurate predictions of process completion times.
The paper proposes a mechanism for business cycles using coupled real economy and stock market dynamics.
problem Understanding and predicting business cycles.
method Developed a dynamic stock market model based on opinion interactions and integrated it into a macroeconomic framework.
result The model generates quasiperiodic fluctuations (business cycles) through coupled real economy and stock market dynamics.
Deep learning enhances business analytics and operations research performance.
problem Scarcity of deep learning research in business analytics and operations research.
method Review and analysis of existing literature, computational experiments, case studies.
result Deep neural networks improve operational performance in business analytics and operations research.
Study optimizes pricing for new insurance business.
problem Maximize conversion rates on new business.
method Model market competition and customer acceptance probabilities; solve optimisation problems for continuous and discrete cases.
result Developed algorithms for optimizing pricing strategies.
The Prescriptive Canvas improves business outcomes by directly prescribing actions based on predictions.
problem Sub-optimal performance in business projects due to a two-step approach of prediction and decision-making.
method The Prescriptive Canvas methodology for framing and communicating actions directly based on predictions.
result Improves framing and communication across stakeholders for successful business impact.
The paper adds explanation to predictive process monitoring.
problem Equipping predictive business process monitoring with explanation capabilities.
method Used game theory of Shapley Values to obtain robust explanations.
result First time explanations given in predictive business process monitoring.
The paper explores how innovative financing solutions boost Moroccan businesses' performance.
problem Market volatility, ecological transitions, and technological change pose challenges to business sustainability.
method Examines innovative financing solutions like venture capital, green finance, crowdfunding, and blockchain.
result Embracing innovative financial strategies can transform business challenges into opportunities.
This paper introduces TDA and TSI for better business analytics.
problem Nonlinear, multi-scale business datasets under-represented by traditional tools.
method Topological Data Analysis (TDA) and Topological Stability Index (TSI).
result TSI reveals structural variability in business data.
A microscopic model of aggregation and fragmentation is introduced to investigate the size distribution of businesses. In the model, businesses are constrained to comply with the market price, as expected by the customers, while customers can only buy at the prices offered by the businesses. We show numerically and ana…
This study assesses e-readiness of Mexican SMEs and proposes a model.
problem Small and medium enterprises in Mexico struggle with e-business adoption.
method Survey research design, statistical analysis, adoption models.
result Data will be collected and analyzed to assess e-readiness and propose recommendations.
Predicting business process behaviour is an important aspect of business process management. Motivated by research in natural language processing, this paper describes an application of deep learning with recurrent neural networks to the problem of predicting the next event in a business process. This is both a novel m…
Develops a Bayesian model to predict business revenue and demand.
problem Estimating revenue and demand at business facilities.
method Variational Bayesian spatial interaction model (BSIM) with scalable inference.
result BSIM outperforms competing approaches in predicting pub revenue and demand.
New risk theory for 'Pay-for-Performance' models.
problem How to price and hedge operational and financial risks in new business models.
method Developed a new risk theory and calculation method for 'Pay-for-Performance' models.
result Presented a model for determining risk premiums including both financial and operational risks.
Graph-based method predicts business conduct risk from incomplete data.
problem Sparse and biased data limits risk assessment.
method Visibility-aware GCNII framework on corporate graph.
result Graph-based approach outperforms non-graph methods in predicting future incidents.