Professor Edward D. Hess is a Professor of Business Administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia. He teaches MBA and Executive Education courses on the challenges of organic growth, innovation and strategy and his research focuses on the challenges of managing private company growth and building enduring organizations. He has authored eight books, over 40 practitioner articles, and over 40 Darden cases dealing with growth systems, managing growth and growth strategies. Professor Hess’s career began at Atlantic Richfield Corporation and was a senior executive at Warburg Paribas Becker, Boettcher & Company, the Robert M. Bass Group and Arthur Andersen. 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. He has a JD from the University of Virginia and an LLM from New York University
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