authorEdward Hess
Ed Hess is a Professor of Business Administration, Batten Fellow, and Batten Executive-in-Residence at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia. He spent more than 20 years in the business world as a senior executive at Warburg Paribas Becker, Boettcher & Company, the Robert M. Bass Group, and Arthur Andersen.
He joined academia in 2002 as an Adjunct Professor of Organization and Management at the Goizueta School of Business at Emory University. He was the Founder and Executive Director of The Center for Entrepreneurship and Corporate Growth and The Values-Based Leadership Institute.
In 2007, he joined the faculty of the Darden Graduate School of Business as a Professor of Business Administration and the first Batten Executive-in-Residence. He teaches in the MBA & EMBA Programs, has taught in over 21 Executive Education programs at Darden, IESE (Barcelona), the Indian School of Business, Georgia Tech, and AVT Denmark, and consults with businesses and governmental agencies.
He is the author of 13 books and over 150 practitioner articles, and over 60 Darden cases, etc., dealing with growth, innovation, and learning cultures, systems, and processes. The common theme of his work is highly individual and organizational performance. His new book is Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt at the Speed of Change.
His work can be found @ www.edhess.org. His work has appeared in over 400 media outlets worldwide, including WSJ Radio, Dow Jones Radio, Bloomberg Radio, CNBC, NPR, Fox Business News, Forbes, Bloomberg, Business Week, Investor's Business Daily, CFO Magazine, Leadership Excellence, Chief Learning Officer, Washington Post, Financial Executive, Big Think, Business Insider, MSNBC Radio, and Money Magazine.
He is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the University of Florida and obtained a J.D. from the University of Virginia and an LL.M. ( Taxation) from New York University.
