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After nearly two months of hype, turmoil and conflict, Suzy Wetlaufer ’81 suddenly resigned her position with the Harvard Business Review (HBR) yesterday, more than a month after she admitted having an affair with an interview subject she was profiling...
After the scandal made national headlines earlier this spring, Wetlaufer gave up her post as editor of HBR and became an editor-at-large for the magazine...
According to Schwartzman, Wetlaufer and HBR reached an “amicable agreement” that she cut all ties with the magazine...
...article. Now Jane is free to pursue half the earnings her husband amassed during their marriage. (He is estimated to be worth between $700 million and $900 million.) Contracts may not be his strength, but Welch has proved he's still a formidable negotiator. Though many on the HBR staff lobbied for Wetlaufer to be fired for not acting quickly enough to pull her story on Welch after they became involved, she will stay on as an editor at large, a deal the Wall Street Journal reports she negotiated with the coaching of Welch and a legal team he recruited...
...behavior that top executives' "sense of self is wrapped up so tightly with status that when their circumstances change, they can mutate into something unrecognizable to their closest friends--or interviewers." Or perhaps the key is that, as the authors of the article on Welch that finally ran in HBR point out, "no CEO exerted a more magnetic pull on the media than Jack Welch...