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Edward
D. Hess
Professor of Business Administration and
Batten Executive-in-Residence BS
University of Florida; JD,
University of Virginia; LLM,
New York University
Office: FOB 298B
Phone: +1-434-982-2170
E-mail: HessE@darden.virginia.edu
MBA Courses
Management of Smaller Enterprises
Challenges of Organic Growth
Executive Education Courses
Growth
Innovation
Strategy
Expertise
Organic Growth and Growth Strategies
Growth Systems and Processes
Managing Private Company Growth
High Performance Organizations and Leadership
Multi-Generational Family Businesses
Biography
Professor Edward D. Hess spent more than 30 years in the business
world. He began his career at Atlantic Richfield Corporation and
was a senior executive at Warburg Paribas Becker, Boettcher &
Company, the Robert M. Bass Group and Arthur Andersen. He is the
author of nine books, over 60 practitioner articles, and over
60 Darden cases, etc. dealing with growth systems, managing growth
and growth strategies. His books include Grow to Greatness:
Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses (Stanford University
Press, upcoming 2012); Growing an Entrepreneurial Business:
Concepts & Cases (Stanford University Press, February,
2011); Smart Growth: Building Enduring Businesses by Managing
the Risks of Growth (Columbia Business School Publishing,
2010); Hess and Goetz, So You Want to Start A Business
(FT Press, 2008); The Road To Organic Growth (McGraw-Hill,
2007); Hess and Cameron, eds., Leading with Values: Virtue,
Positivity & High Performance (Cambridge University Press,
2006); Hess and Kazanjian, eds., The Search for Organic Growth
(Cambridge University Press, 2006).
Smart Growth was named a Top 25 2010 business book for business
owners by Inc. Magazine and was awarded the Wachovia Award for
Research Excellence.
His current research focuses on the Darden Growth/Innovation Model,
the challenges of managing private company growth and building
enduring organizations. Hess has taught in Executive Education
programs for Harris Corporation, Cigna, Timken, United Technologies,
Genworth Financial, Pitney Bowes, Unilever Russia, Westinghouse
Nuclear, Alpha Natural Resources, Alegco-Scotsman, FTI Consulting
as well as IESE (Barcelona) and the Indian School of Business.
Hess's work has appeared in Fortune magazine, JiJi Press, Washington
Post, the Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily, CFO Review,
Money magazine and in more than 200 other media publications as
well as on CNBC, BusinessWeek.com, Fox Business News, Forbes.com,
Big Think, Reuters.com., Inc.com, WSJ Radio, Bloomberg Radio,
Dow Jones, MSNBC Radio, Huffington Post.com, Business Insider.com
and Chief Learning Officer.com.
Prior to joining the faculty at Darden, he was Adjunct Professor
and the Founder and Executive Director of both the Center for
Entrepreneurship and Corporate Growth and the Values-Based Leadership
Institute at Goizueta Business School, Emory University.
