Ed Hess
Professor of Business Administration
Batten Executive-in-Residence
Batten Faculty Fellow
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 was the founder and executive director of The Center for Entrepreneurship and Corporate Growth and of The Values-Based Leadership Institute.
In 2007, he joined the faculty of the Darden Business School as professor of business administration and the first Batten Executive-in-Residence. He is also a Batten Faculty Fellow. He teaches in the Darden Business School MBA & EMBA Programs and has taught in over 20 Executive Education programs and in Executive Programs at IESE (Barcelona), the Indian School of Business, Georgia Tech and AVT Denmark. He consults regularly with public and private companies and some Federal government agencies.
He is the author of 13 books, over 140 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 high individual and organizational performance.
His book Smart Growth was named a Top 25 business book in 2010 for business owners by Inc. Magazine and a Top 10 Business Book for 2010 by the Toronto Globe and was awarded the Wachovia Award for Research Excellence. Learn or Die was an Amazon bestseller and was awarded the Wells Fargo Award for Research Excellence.
His recent bestselling book is Hess& Ludwig, Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age (Berrett-Koehler, 2017).
His new book is HYPER-LEARNING: How to Adapt to the Speed of Change (Berrett-Koehler, August, 2020).
Hess' work has appeared in Fortune Magazine, European Business Review, HBR, SHRM, Fast Company, Wired, Forbes, Inc., Huffington Post, The Washington Post, Businessweek, 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 current research focuses on innovation and learning mindsets, behaviors and processes integrating neuroscience, business and elite performance research with the learnings of the great Eastern and Western philosophies.
