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Discover a new textbook designed to help instructors teach financial modeling through real-world applications in Excel.
Bill Hu of Howard University and Mattia Landoni of CEIBS introduce their new textbook, Financial Modeling, and share the story behind its development. They highlight its build from scratch approach to teaching financial modeling in Excel through practical, real world applications.
Bill Hu serves as Chair of Finance & Accounting at Howard University. A recognized educator, he has trained thousands of professionals from Fortune 500 companies, small businesses, and non-profit organizations at the intersection of finance and technology. Dr. Hu actively contributes to the global finance profession as a curriculum developer and grader for the CFA Institute and as the author of the spreadsheet modeling chapter for the Certified Corporate Financial Planning & Analysis Professional (FPAC) credential. Before his academic career in finance, Dr. Hu worked as a nanotechnologist and had a variety of scholarly articles and patents.
Mattia Landoni is Associate Professor of Finance at CEIBS in Shanghai, whose Global EMBA was ranked #1 worldwide by the Financial Times in 2024. He previously taught at Harvard, Babson, and SMU Cox, where he began teaching corporate finance in 2014, and served as Senior Financial Economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Dr. Landoni earned his PhD in Financial Economics from Columbia Business School, an undergraduate degree from Bocconi University, and became a CFA charterholder in 2020. His research on public finance, lending markets, and cryptocurrencies has appeared in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, and other leading outlets.
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