Manager Management

Megan F. Hess

Darden Graduate School of Business Administration

University of Virginia, Box 6550

Charlottesville, VA 22906-6550

e-mail: *****@********.***

Megan Hess is a doctoral candidate in management at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the

University of Virginia. Ms. Hess research interests are in the areas of ethical decision making,

employee voice, social networks, and corporate governance. Prior to starting her doctorate, Ms. Hess

spent twelve years as a management consultant, most recently with Deloitte where she investigated

financial statement fraud. She has an MBA from Texas A&M University and a BA in Politics from

Washington & Lee University.

Papers in Development

Megan Hess, Linda Trevino, and Rob Cross. The Embeddedness of Ethical Choice:

Relationships, Moral Efficacy, and Peer Reporting (under review at Organizational Behavior

and Human Decision Processes).

Megan Hess and Andrew Hess. Stakeholder Relationship Management for Strategic Renewal

(under review at Strategic Management Journal).

Jared Harris and Megan Hess. The Origins of Organizational Ethics: A Model of Ethical

Infrastructure Development (targeted for Journal of Business Venturing).

Megan Hess, Jared Harris, and Morela Hernandez. Leaning Into the Wind: Stakeholder

Orientation and Organizational Resilience (targeted for Administrative Science Quarterly).

Refereed Conference Presentations

Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 2012. The Embeddedness of Ethical

Choice: A Relational View of Moral Efficacy and Voice.

Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, August 2012. Leaning Into the Wind: Stakeholder

Orientation and Organizational Resilience.

Behavioral Ethics Conference, University of Central Florida, February 2012. The Extended

Moral Backbone.

Academy of Management Annual Meeting, August 2011. Stakeholder Acumen.

Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, August 2011. The Silent Cause of Employee

Silence: How Divergent Experiences of Voice Contribute to Moral Muteness.

Stakeholder Conference at Solitude, December 2010. Stakeholder Acumen.

Strategic Management Society Annual Meeting, September 2010. The Origins of

Organizational Ethics: A Model of Ethical Infrastructure Development.

Society for Business Ethics Annual Meeting, August 2010. Creating Ethical Infrastructure.

Teaching Experience

Current School of Engineering and Applied Science, University of Virginia

Instructor, Finance/Accounting Unit: Business Fundamentals (ENGR 1559)

Masters in Information Technology, McIntire School, University of Virginia

Instructor, Special Topics in Ethics

Williams School of Commerce, Washington & Lee University

Adjunct Professor, Anatomy of a Fraud (ACCT297A)

Service, Awards, and Memberships

Current Darden Graduate School of Business, University of Virginia

Research Assistant to Jared Harris, Assistant Professor of Business Administration

Founder s Award, Society for Business Ethics (2011)

Member, Academy of Management

Member, Society for Business Ethics

May 2003 Texas A&M University, Lowry Mays Graduate School of Business

Ford Scholar

June 1997 Washington & Lee University

Magna cum Laude

Phi Beta Kappa

Professional Experience

2003 2009 Senior Manager - Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP (Atlanta, GA and DC)

Deloitte Financial Advisory Services provides forensic accounting, corporate

investigation, and litigation support services to help companies respond to fraud

allegations and commercial disputes.

Antifraud Programs and Controls: Developed whitepapers about leading practices in

managing global fraud and corruption risks, including:

Co-author, Managing the Business Risk of Fraud: New Guidance for a New Risk

Environment

http://www.deloitte.com/dtt/article/0,1002,sid%253D2007%2526cid%253D217964,00

.html

Updated Deloitte s fraud risk assessment tools and methodologies to address new

regulations and heightened fraud risks associated with the economic downturn.

Provided antifraud subject matter expertise to Deloitte Center for Corporate

Governance and Risk Intelligence programs. Co-led training on Managing Financial

Statement Fraud Risk for the Institute of Internal Auditors.

Fraud and Forensic Investigations: Managed forensic investigations of alleged fraud

in government contracting, mismanagement of public institution funding,

procurement abuses, stock options backdating, and inflated pricing under a

manufacturing services agreement.

Litigation Support: Managed litigation support projects and prepared expert reports

in numerous disputes ranging from product liability, contract dispute, billing disputes,

to various intellectual property matters (theft of trade secrets, reverse engineering,

counterfeit sales, and royalty audits).

Regulatory Consulting: Led several large engagements investigating the costs

incurred by wireless carriers to comply with the FCC s Wireless Local Number

Portability and E911 mandates. Also advised wireless carriers on Universal Service

Fund and Eligible Telecommunications Carrier programs. Managed a nation-wide

time & motion study designed to capture incremental time and related costs incurred

at retail stores across the country related to the advent of wireless local number

portability. Also supported Sarbanes Oxley readiness efforts (revenue cycle) by

identifying and documenting process flows and controls.

Summer 2002 Management Intern & Business Analyst - Ford Motor Company (Dearborn, MI)

Worked on project eVEREST, Ford Motor Company s initiative to web-enable and

streamline its global procurement operations utilizing Oracle s iProcure application.

1999 2001 Account Manager and Business Analyst - Context Integration, Inc. (Boston, MA)

Context Integration provides systems integration services for Fortune 500 businesses.

1998 1999 Account Manager - Parson Group, LLC (Boston, MA)

1997 1998 Loan Officer - Wachovia Bank, N.A. (Winston-Salem, NC & Athens, GA)

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