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Edward D. Hess
Professor Emeritus of Business Administration and Batten Executive-in-Residence Emeritus
Hess is a top authority on organizational and human high performance. His studies focus on growth, innovation and learning cultures, systems and processes, and servant leadership.
Hess has authored 13 books, including The Physics of Business Growth: Mindsets, System and Processes, co-authored by Darden Professor Jeanne Liedtka; Grow to Greatness: Smart Growth for Entrepreneurial Businesses; Learn or Die: Using Science to Build a Leading-Edge Learning Organization and Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human Excellence in the Smart Machine Age (January 2017), co-authored by Katherine Ludwig. His newest book is Hyper-Learning: How to Adapt at the Speed of Change (September, 2020). He has written more than 160 practitioner articles and 60 Darden cases, and his work has appeared in more than 400 global media publications.
B.S., University of Florida; J.D., University of Virginia; LLM, New York University
Justin J. Hopkins
J. Harvie Wilkinson Jr. Associate Professor of Business Administration
Hopkins’ research interests include the effects of regulation on financial reporting, governance and economic outcomes. He focuses on securities and income tax regulation.
Prior to joining Darden, Hopkins worked as an auditor for Ernst & Young LLP and consulted for the Justice Department and Asian Development Bank. He is a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from the Dominican Republic.
B.S., M.P.Acc., Montana State University; Ph.D, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Alexander B. Horniman
Killgallon Ohio Art Professor Emeritus of Business Administration; Senior Fellow, Olsson Center for Applied Ethics
Horniman has wide-ranging expertise in the fields of business ethics, developing personal leadership, executive behavior, managerial psychology, diverse work groups, managing personal and organizational change, and motivating to increase performance.
He is a senior fellow at Darden’s Olsson Center for Applied Ethics and served as founding director of the center — one of the first university-based ethics centers. Horniman’s current teaching and research interests focus on the areas of strategy, leadership, individual and organizational change, high performance and the moral and ethical issues of leadership.
He has served as a consultant for many companies, including IBM, Babcock and Wilcox Company, Irwin Union Bank and Trust, and Sewell Automotive. He has authored numerous case studies and articles about high performance and leadership challenges.
A.B., Middlebury College; MBA, University of California at Los Angeles; DBA, Harvard University
Young Hou
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Young Hou is a professor in the Strategy, Ethics and Entrepreneurship area at Darden, where he teaches core Strategy and Corporate Strategy in the full-time MBA program.
Hou’s research focuses on the dynamic interplay between firm positioning and firm resources in market and nonmarket settings. In particular, he examines how firms reposition themselves to enhance their competitiveness and increase the value of their resources. His work employs computationally scalable machine learning techniques to analyze high-dimensional data, field experiments and interviews.
Prior to joining Darden, Hou worked as a fixed income derivatives trader with PnL responsibilities at Fidelity Investments in Boston. He holds degrees in economics and engineering, statistics, and business administration in strategy.
B.A., Dartmouth College; M.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., Harvard Business School
Ray Charles “Chuck” Howard
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Dr. Ray Charles ‘Chuck’ Howard is an Associate Professor at the Darden School of Business. His research on heuristics and biases seeks to advance our understanding of when and why we make suboptimal decisions, and how our decision-making can be improved. As an example, his research on financial decision-making answers questions like: Why do we underpredict future expenses and overpredict future income? How can we make more accurate financial predictions? How can we stay on budget and avoid overspending?
Dr. Howard’s research has been published in leading academic journals such as Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Service Research, and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. He has received awards from the Society for Consumer Psychology, the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, and the Behavioral Insights Group at Harvard University. Dr. Howard’s research findings have reached a global audience, including executives, policymakers, and academics in the US, Canada, Europe, Asia, and Africa, and his commentary has been featured by CNN, NPR Marketplace, The Conversation, The Brainy Business Podcast, The Morning Beat Podcast, Wallethub, Money Geek, and KBTX News.
Toni Irving
Frank M. Sands Sr. Professor of Practice
Irving has decades of experience across multiple interconnected disciplines, including finance, health care, academia, consulting, government, philanthropy and nonprofit management. At Darden, she teaches, writes and consults on topics ranging from leadership, organizational behavior, nonprofit management, cross-sector partnerships, social impact, corporate responsibility and business ethics.
Prior to joining Darden, Irving launched and led the social impact fund Get In Chicago, which worked with corporations, government, health systems and private philanthropy. The public-private partnership developed data-driven solutions to some of Chicago’s most difficult social and economic problems by investing in, evaluating, and building capacity in nonprofit organizations supporting public systems. Additionally, she was a member of the faculty at the University of Notre Dame, where she conducted research and teaching at the intersection of law, literature and social policy.
The Chicago Council on Global Affairs recently named Irving a nonresident senior fellow, global cities.
B.A., University of Virginia; M.A., University of Kent; Ph.D., New York University
Lynn A. Isabella
Frank M. Sands Sr. Associate Professor of Business Administration
Isabella is an expert in leadership and how people think about change. She is an authority on leading and managing in a global environment and in competency in global leadership. As a teacher, consultant and executive coach, she teaches individuals and companies to develop talent and organizational effectiveness. Her research focuses on questions of developing personal leadership expertise, leading change as a middle manager and on the events that shape individual careers and propel organizational change.
Isabella is co-author of the books Alliance Competence, Leader and Teams: The Winning Partnership and The Portable MBA, Fifth Edition.
B.S., Tufts University ; Ed.M., Harvard University; MBA, DBA, Boston University
Lauren Kaufmann
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Kaufmann teaches business ethics in Darden’s full-time and part-time MBA formats. She uses normative and empirical methods in her research on business ethics, including in the areas of social and environmental impact, impact investing and gender. Her work has been published in Business Ethics Quarterly and Academy of Management Review.
Prior to joining Darden, Kaufmann completed her Ph.D. in applied economics and managerial science at The Wharton School, where she was recognized as the inaugural doctoral fellow at the Wharton Social Impact Initiative and as an emerging scholar by the Society for Business Ethics.
In addition to her appointment at Darden, she is an affiliated faculty member in the Women, Gender & Sexuality Department at UVA.
B.A., University of Pennsylvania; M.Sc., London School of Economics and Political Science; Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Wharton School
Tami Kim
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Kim’s research delves into firm transparency, consumer empowerment and implicit contracts, with special interest in interpersonal relationships in the digital age. Not only has her work been published in leading academic journals, it has also been featured in media outlets including Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Atlantic.
Kim holds an A.B. in government from Harvard College and a doctorate of business administration in marketing from Harvard Business School, where she received the Wyss Award for Excellence in Doctoral Research and the HBS Dean’s Award.
A.B., Harvard College; DBA, Harvard Business School
Dennie Kim
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Dennie Kim is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Strategy, Ethics, and Entrepreneurship area at Darden. His research examines the design and performance of whole organizational networks, with particular interest in U.S. health care delivery and reform. Current work examines the networks of Medicare Accountable Care Organizations and surgical procedures, as well as the emergence of retail health clinics in the U.S.
He earned his Ph.D. in business administration from the University of Minnesota and A.B. in biology from Harvard University. Prior to joining academia, he worked for several years as a strategy consultant in the biopharmaceutical industry and project manager in hospital administration.
B.A., Harvard University; Ph.D., University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management