By D.C. Denison, Globe Staff, 10/03/02

Thomas A. Stewart Suzy Wetlaufer, the former editor of Harvard Business Review, resigned in April shortly after acknowledging a relationship with her interview subject, former GE chairman Jack Welch. (AP photo)  FROM THE ARCHIVES Harvard Business Review editor quits (4/25/2002) Despite staff tumult, Harvard Business Review retains lock on elite niche (3/19/2002)  ON THE WEB Profile of Stewart from Business 2.0   (midway down page)

The Harvard Business Review will announce later today the appointment of Thomas A. Stewart as editor.

Stewart, 54, was on the Board of Editors at Fortune magazine and most recently was editorial director of Business 2.0, both of which are published by Time Inc.

The top spot at the Review has been vacant since the resignation of Suzy Wetlaufer earlier this year after she admitted to an "improper relationship" with former General Electric CEO Jack Welch while she was working on an interview with him for the Review.

Stewart is the author of two books: "Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations," published in 1997, and "The Wealth of Knowledge: Intellectual Capital and the Twenty-first Century Organization," published in 2002.

A former editor at Farrar Straus and Giroux and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Stewart was vice president and editor-in-chief of Atheneum Publishers, a division of Macmillan, Inc., from 1979-1985. From 1985-1989, he was Atheneum's president and publisher. Stewart joined Fortune magazine in 1989 as an associate editor. There he wrote on a wide range of management subjects -- from productivity to stock options, from the management of churches to the failings of human resources departments.

In 2001, Stewart joined Business 2.0, where he has set editorial policy, developed story ideas, written feature articles on management trends, and penned a fortnightly Web column, "Barely Managing."

Based in Boston, Harvard Business Review is a business unit of Harvard Business School Publishing, a wholly-owned, not-for-profit subsidiary of Harvard University. Published 12 times a year, the magazine currently has a paid circulation of 243,000.