Massimiliano Barbi is Professor of Corporate Finance at the Department of Management, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna. He received his PhD in Banking and Finance from the Catholic University of Milan in 2009. He was a visiting PhD candidate at Birkbeck, University of London, and an Associate Lecturer in Risk Management at Leeds University Business School. His research focuses on corporate finance, with particular emphasis on financial risk management, corporate governance, and entrepreneurial finance. He has published in several international academic journals and is a member of the Faculty Board of the PhD Programme in Management at the University of Bologna. His teaching experience includes corporate finance, financial risk management, corporate valuation, and corporate governance at undergraduate, graduate, MBA, executive, and PhD levels. He has also provided professional consulting services in corporate valuation and the valuation of financial derivatives.