Word: hbr
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...reason for both losses was the romantic relationship sparked when Wetlaufer, the editor of the Harvard Business Review, interviewed Welch, the retired head of GE, for a story in her publication. But the saga continues now that journalists have dug into her past. Wetlaufer was supposed to return to HBR as an editor-at-large, but last week she resigned from the journal entirely, saying her presence would be a distraction. This comes just as two articles, one in Vanity Fair and one in New York magazine, have turned up such tidbits as an affair (that she confirms) with...
Though Wetlaufer had initially resigned as editor and assumed the editor-at-large position as a compromise that would keep her at HBR, her spokesperson said Wetlaufer “regretted the actions she took were not sufficient to maintain the trust of her colleagues...
After word of the affair circulated, four HBR editors wrote letters to Kiechel asking for Wetlaufer’s resignation...
...meeting where Wetlaufer was demoted, two of the editors walked out, saying they thought she should quit outright—and then, in protest, Harris Collingwood ’77 and Alden Hayashi resigned their HBR posts...
Another of the HBR executive editors, Nicholas Carr, who earlier wrote a letter demanding Wetlaufer’s resignation said yesterday that he had read her statement and that he took it “at face value...