Valuing Digital Business Designs and Platforms: An Integrated Strategic and Financial Valuation Framework

Chapter 1. Digital Business Designs and Platforms.- Chapter 2. Developing a Covid-19 vaccine to save the world.- Chapter 3. Ride-hailing - Is sharing the new owning?.- Chapter 4. The streaming revolution in global media & the down of an epic battle.- Chapter 5. Airbnb: From double-sided accommodation to multi-sided experience platform?.

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Feix is Professor at the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg (Germany) since 2012. His research interests are focused on M&A, Corporate Finance and Corporate Strategy. Additionally, he is program director and manager of the international Master Program ＂International Business & Finance (IBF)＂. Besides, he teaches M&A at Harvard University (US), M&A at INSECC University in Paris, Lyon and Bordeaux, Global Innovation Management at Geneva University (Switzerland) and Corporate Finance at Bucharest University (Rumania).

Before he re-joined the world of science he worked more than 15 years as inhouse-consultant for Daimler AG, and as Vice President of Corporate Development and Strategy for Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH and later Knorr-Bremse AG. Within this timeframe he realized globally more than 70 transactions with his teams. Additionally, he is board member of the Bundesverband M&A since 2007, where he does focus on corporate valuation, integration strategies and digital M&A tools and processes.

Early 2020 his new M&A-book ＂End-to-End M&A Process Design - Resilient Business Model Innovation＂ was released. This M&A Process Design framework was for the first time fully applied in the Harvard Summer School lectures 2019 and 2020 on ＂Global M&A Design for the Twenty-First Century: Digital Business Model Innovation and Cross-Border Deals＂.