Martin Boehm

The last decade he spent researching and consulting in the area of customer management had a profound effect on Martin Boehm’s thinking as a marketing professor at IE Business School. Those were years during which the corporate world finally realized the necessity to shift from a transaction based to a relationship based marketing.

What really interests Prof Boehm from a marketing standpoint is the management of customer relationships in order to increase a firm’s long-term profitability. “Customers are important intangible assets of a firm that should be valued and managed”, he says. “Only by attracting, retaining, and growing profitable customer relationships firms will be successful in the future”. His research therefore aims to provide managerial implications on how to build profitable and long-lasting customer relationships. His primary concern is to quantify the impact of various customer management activities on a customer’s lifetime value – the net present value of the stream of future profits expected over a customer’s lifetime.

At the same time, Prof Boehm develops analytical models to estimate or approximate a customer’s lifetime value. “One of the major challenges in customer relationship management is still to arrive at reliable estimates of a customer’s future profits and lifetime”, he says. “Not being able to measure a customer’s lifetime value prevents the development of successful strategies for customer management”.

Prof Boehm believes that his work on customer relationship management has broad implications for the corporate world. “I intend to develop insights on how to satisfy customer needs, but at the same time to consider the monetary consequences of doing so,” he says. “This will provide firms with a roadmap for growth”.

Academic Background

• PhD in Marketing, Frankfurt University, Germany

• SSP, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), USA

• MBA, Australian Graduate School of Entrepreneurship, Australia

• BA in International Business, Reutlingen University, Germany

Academic Experience

• 2021: Adjunct Professor of Marketing

• 2017 - 2021: Dean of IE Business School

• 2012 - 2017: Dean of Programs, IE Business School

• 2010 - Present: Associate Dean of Master in Management Programs, IE Business School

• 2008 - 2010: Dean of Undergraduate Studies, IE University

• 2006 - Present: Professor of Marketing, IE Business School

• 2006: Visiting Scholar, AGSM, University of New South Wales, Australia

• 2003 - 2006: Research Associate, E-Finance Lab, Frankfurt, Germany

Corporate Experience

• Consultancy work with Bain & Company and Accenture

LATEST PUBLICATIONS

• Gensler, S., Verhoef, P., Böhm, M. (2011). "Understanding Consumers’ Multichannel Choices Across the Different Stages of the Buying Process". Marketing Letters. Vol. 23(4): 987-1003

• Boehm, M. (2007). "Determining The Impact Of Internet Channel Use On A Customer’S Lifetime". Journal of Interactive Marketing. Vol. 22(3): 2-22

• Marcos, F.  (2012). "El ámbito de aplicación subjetivo de la Ley de Defensa de la Competencia". Revista de Derecho Constitucional, Civil y Mercantil. Vol. 142, 2012