Building Financial Modeling Skills While Playing an E-Sport Game with Professor Eric Kelley
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Paul Barnhurst interviews Dr. Eric Kelley about evolving financial modeling education through Excel Esports and hands-on learning techniques.
In this episode of Financial Modeler’s Corner, Paul Barnhurst sits down with Dr. Eric Kelley, finance professor, Microsoft Excel MVP, and financial modeling educator, to discuss how financial modeling education is evolving through Excel Esports and hands-on learning. Eric shares how he uses competitions, real-world cases, and structured modeling techniques to help students build stronger financial modeling skills, think in systems, and create models that support better decision-making. Dr. Eric Kelley is a finance professor at the University of Tennessee’s Haslam College of Business, where he teaches finance at the undergraduate, MBA, and PhD levels. He is a Microsoft Excel MVP and faculty fellow with the Microsoft Excel Collegiate Challenge. Eric focuses on developing integrated financial modeling education, helping students build scalable models through innovative techniques and competitive Excel-based learning. Expect to Learn: Why communication skills are critical for financial modelers How to build models as flexible systems instead of one-time solutions How Excel Esports helps students develop real-world modeling skills How competitions can improve financial modeling…
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