Edward D. Hess
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Edward D. Hess

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Edward D. Hess
Professor Emeritus of Business Administration
Batten Faculty Fellow & Batten Executive-in-Residence Emeritus
Darden School of Business, University of Virginia.
Non-Resident Fellow: The Brute Krulak Center for Innovation & Future Warfare, Marine Corps University.

Education:
B.S. University of Florida
J.D. University of Virginia
L.L.M. New York University

Professor Ed Hess 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 where he taught in the business Undergraduate and MBA Programs and was the Founder and Executive Director of both 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 Professor of Business Administration and the first Batten Executive-in- Residence. He has taught in the MBA & EMBA Programs; in over 21 Executive Education programs at Darden, IESE (Barcelona), the Indian School of Business, Georgia Tech; and AVT Denmark and consults regularly with public and private businesses and governmental agencies.

He is the author of 15 books and over 160 practitioner articles and over 60 Darden cases, etc. dealing with innovation and learning cultures, systems, and processes. The common theme of his work is high individual and organizational performance. Six of his books were published by Academic Presses: Cambridge University Press; Stanford University Press; and Columbia Business School Publishing.

His book Smart Growth was named a Top 25 business book in 2010 by Inc. Magazine and was awarded the Wachovia Award for Research Excellence. His book Learn or Die was an Amazon best seller and was awarded the Well Fargo Award for Research Excellence. His recent books are Hess & Ludwig, Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age (Berrett-Koehler, 2017) and Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change (Berrett-Kohler, 2020)

Hess's work has appeared in Fortune magazine, European Business Review, HBR, SHRM, Fast Company, WIRED, Forbes, INC., Huffington Post, Washington Post, Business Week, the Financial Times, and in more than 400 other global media publications as well as on CNBC Squawk Box, Fox Business News with Maria Bartiroma, Big Think, WSJ Radio, Bloomberg Radio with Kathleen Hayes, Dow Jones Radio, MSNBC Radio, Business Insider, and Wharton Radio.

His new book is OWN YOUR WORK JOURNEY! The Path to Meaningful Work and Happiness in the Age of Smart Technology and Radical Change published by Amazon KDP. The Book Website is: https://www.ownyourworkjourney.com

He currently consults and does executive coaching in the areas of Organizational and Human High Performance using a mindset and behavioral approach.

March, 2023
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