Abstract
B
d
and
B
s
meson systems play a fundamental role to test and improve our understanding of Standard Model flavor dynamics. The mixing parameters
Δ
m
d,s
represent important constraints in the unitarity triangle analysis. Their theoretical estimates require non-perturbative calculations of B-meson decay constants and B-parameters; accurate results, recently obtained from the lattice, are reviewed. Other phenomenologically interesting quantities are the beauty hadron lifetime ratios and, the width differences and CP-violation parameters in
B
d
and
B
s
systems. We discuss their theoretical predictions which, in the last four years, have been improved thanks to accurate lattice calculations and next-to-leading order perturbative computations.