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Six months after an embarrassing scandal drove out its former editor, the Harvard Business Review selects Thomas A. Stewart to be its new editor.

The Harvard Business Review names management expert Thomas A. Stewart its new editor, six months after revelations of an affair with an interviewee led to the ouster of former Editor Suzy Wetlaufer. Stewart, 54, an author and former book editor, comes from Business 2.0, where he has been editorial director. He takes over a staff that was roiled by Wetlaufer's admission of a close relationship with former General Electric Chairman Jack Welch that started after an interview but before her story was finished. Two senior editors quit in protest when the magazine's executives initially allowed Wetlaufer to stay on (see Bylines, April). She later resigned. "I wasn't hired to fix anything broken," says Stewart, a Harvard alum and former member of Fortune magazine's Board of Editors. "I was hired to lead something excellent to what I hope will be even greater excellence." In his prior magazine positions, Stewart did a lot of writing, but he says he's looking forward to the change of roles. "I've decided to revert to being a perpetrator of editing rather than a victim."