Edward Hess Biography

Professor Edward D. Hess has worked in the corporate sector for over 30 years. He started his career at Atlantic Richfield Corporation and then worked with Warburg Paribas Becker, Boettcher & Company, the Robert M. Bass Group, and Arthur Andersen as a senior executive. He has written 11 books, over 60 practitioner papers, and over 60 Darden cases, among other things, about growth systems, growth management, and growth strategies. Learn or Die: Using Science to Create a Cutting-Edge Learning Organization (Columbia Business School Publishing, September 2014); Hess and Liedtka, The Physics of Business Growth: Mindsets, Systems, and Processes (Columbia Business School Publishing, September 2014); and Hess and Liedtka, The Physics of Business Growth: Mindsets, Systems, and Processes (Columbia Business School Publishing, September 2014); Growing an Entrepreneurial Business: Concepts & Cases (Stanford University Press, February 2011); Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses (Stanford University Press, 2012); 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, and High Performance(Cambridge University Press, 2006); Hess and Kazanjian, eds., The Search for Organic Growth(Cambridge University Press, 2006); Hess and Kazanjian, ed (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Smart Growth was designated one of Inc. Magazine's Top 25 business books for business owners in 2010 and received the Wachovia Award for Research Excellence. His current study focuses on how to integrate learning science in a corporate setting, including learning cultures, systems, and processes. Harris Corporation, Cigna, Timken, United Technologies, Genworth Financial, Pitney Bowes, Unilever Russia, Marriott International, Westinghouse Nuclear, Alpha Natural Resources, Algeco-Scotsman, FTI Consulting, Dover Corporation, Glen Raven Corporation, IESE (Barcelona), and the Indian School of Business have all had Hess teach in their Executive Education programs. Hess' work has been featured in Fortune magazine, JiJi Press, the Washington Post, the Financial Times, Investor's Business Daily, CFO Review, Money magazine, and more than 300 other media outlets, 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 Chipotle.com

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