For owner-managed businesses
Small Business
Build a budget, understand your finances, monitor profitability and cash flow, and plan for financing.
Explore Small Business →Courses · Business Resources · Applied Learning
Practical Education
& Financial Tools
Resources for students, entrepreneurs, and organizations to learn, plan, and make smarter financial decisions.
Featured Resources
Business Model Canvas
Plan and refine your business model.
Open the Tool →Financial Calculators
Practical finance and decision-making resources.
View Tools →DuPont Analysis
Analyze profitability and drivers of returns.
Launch Tool →Business Resources
Budgeting and financial-planning tools for organizations.
Explore Resources →About Me
My background, current projects, and websites.
Learn More →Student Resources
Courses & learning areas
Choose a course area to find tools, assignments and supporting resources. New material can be added here throughout the semester.
MNMK-355
Entrepreneurship & New Economy
Turn ideas into business models. Explore customers, value propositions, economics, innovation and the mechanics of building a venture.
Open MNMK-355 →A.I.
Artificial Intelligence
Practical material on using artificial intelligence as a thinking, research and productivity tool—while understanding its limits.
Open A.I. resources →FIN-301
Finance
Course tools and reference material for applying financial concepts, valuation logic and decision-making to real situations.
Open FIN-301 →New · Free Financial Planning Resources
Understand your finances. Plan your future.
Financial GPS is being developed for owners and community organizations without dedicated financial staff. Explore the two resource tracks and our fictional-data demonstration.
For congregations of all faiths
Ministries & Faith Organizations
Understand financial position, contributions, reserves, budget performance, and potential building financing.
Explore Faith Organizations →Financial GPS is a developmental pilot. The demonstration is intended for fictional information only—not confidential business or congregation financial records.
Independent research · Working papers
Research beyond the classroom.
From dividend-based retirement income to the remarkable bone biology of birds and hibernating bears, my independent projects begin with questions—and advance through evidence, models and testable hypotheses.
Explore Research & Working PapersCurrent research directionsRetirement income & investingComparative biology & osteoporosisPublic summaries now available · Papers in development
About Professor Connelly
Finance, technology and entrepreneurship—taught from experience.
I’ve spent my career at the intersection of banking, finance, technology and entrepreneurship. I have financed businesses and assets around the world, helped build specialty finance companies, led commercial lending teams and developed digital lending systems designed to make banking faster and more efficient.
My career has also given me the opportunity to build new businesses inside banks, including digital lending platforms and an eCommerce banking business. At Huntingdon Valley Bank, I helped grow the commercial loan portfolio from $13 million to more than $300 million while launching new lending, cash-management and technology initiatives.
Teaching lets me bring those experiences into the classroom. For many years I taught CEOs through the SBA Emerging Leaders program, combining academic frameworks with the practical realities of starting, financing and scaling a business. That same approach drives the materials and tools on this site.
More about my background ↗Beyond the classroom
Current Projects & Websites
Check out my websites and other projects:
- AskMaeve.aiConversational AI for portfolio analysis, investment income, and financial decisions.
- Dividend HunterDividend-stock research and a tracker of recently announced dividend increases.
- ME40Index.comMachine Economy 40: a 40-company research index covering the AI buildout, from semiconductors and cloud to data centers, power, cybersecurity and robotics.
- TheInflictors.comA sports concept celebrating game-changing athletes, with a voice for fans.
- MyCreditDept.comOutsourced commercial credit analysis and underwriting support for community banks.
- GoodFiLoanFund.orgA developing nonprofit revolving loan fund to expand financing access for smaller charities.
- ThePreacherShow.comA project recognizing exceptional Catholic homilies and thoughtful, practical preaching.
- HughConnelly.infoMy professional background, banking career, ideas, and personal blog.
Featured student tool
Business Model Canvas
MNMK-355 students can build, save, reopen and print their own Business Model Canvas. Each student works independently on the same website; their canvas data stays in their own browser unless they download a project file.