Click here for details on our Consulting Services EDH, Ltd. is the consulting and management training company of Professor Edward D. Hess, Distinguished Executive in Residence and Professor of Management at the Goizueta Graduate School of Business at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.

Prior to joining Emory, Professor Hess had over 30 years experience in the private sector as a lawyer, senior executive, entrepreneur, investment banker and consultant with Atlantic Richfield; Warburg Paribas Becker; Boettcher & Company; Robert M. Bass Group; Jones Lang Wooten and Andersen Corporate Finance.

He has a diverse, multi-disciplinary background in law, corporate finance, strategy, leadership and change, capital markets and entrepreneurship. His experience includes M & A transactions, IPOs, workouts & recaps, joint ventures, private equity investments, litigation risk management, due diligence, strategic assessments, business models, management assessments, negotiations, trial experience, and entrepreneurial ventures.

Professor Hess has done business globally in Asia, Australia, North America, Europe and the Caribbean. In the last 10 years alone, he has advised corporations and investors on billions of dollars of investments and has performed strategy facilitations for over 100 clients.

In addition, he has written over 40 commentaries on corporate finance, entrepreneurship, leadership, and strategic issues. He has authored or edited five books, and successfully built four service businesses. He has been a keynote speaker at numerous local, national and international conferences.

His current projects include:

• Values-Based Leadership and High Performance Organizations
• The Six Keys to Organic Growth
• The Organic Growth Index
• Leadership Execution
• Spirituality and Capitalism
• The Paths to Successful Entrepreneurship
  
  

Professor Hess' research, consulting, and writings on strategy, family businesses, entrepreneurship, organic growth, and leadership all have a common thread of inquiry: how does one create sustainable high performance organizations? What kinds of leadership, employee policies, execution processes, and accountability systems enhance one's probability of creating a sustainable high performance business?

Upcoming Books

• The Successful Family Business: Proactively Managing Both the Family and the Business,
  November, 2005 (Praeger/Greenwood)
• The Search For Organic Growth, Hess &Kazanjian (Co-editors)
  September, 2006 (Cambridge University Press)
• Leading With Values: Positivity, Virtue & High Performance, Hess & Cameron (Co-editors)
  August, 2006 (Cambridge University Press)
• The Six Secrets of Organic Growth: How Great Companies Consistently Grow From Within,
  December, 2006 (McGraw-Hill)

Authored Company Studies

• SYSCO – 2005
• UPS – 2005
• Synovus Financial Corporation (co-author) – 2004
• HomeBanc Mortgage Company – 2005
• Edens & Avant LLP – 2005
• The Beach Company – 2005
• American Eagle Outfitters - 2005
• Best Buy - 2005
• Tiffany & Co.-2005
• Outback Steakhouse, Inc. –2005
• Stryker Corporation – 2005
• TSYS - 2005

Current Consulting Clients

• Edens & Avant - Columbia, S.C.
• Hixon Properties - San Antonio, TX
• The Beach Company - Charleston, S.C.
• Burroughs & Chapin - Myrtle Beach, S.C.
• FedEx Freight
  
  

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