Suzy Welch

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Suzy Welch (b. 1959) is the former editor of the Harvard Business Review. She attended Phillips Exeter Academy, Harvard College, and Harvard Business School, from which she graduated as a Baker Scholar, in the top five percent of her class. Her professional experience includes several years at Bain & Company, a management consulting firm based in Boston, where she focused on manufacturing clients. Although she has written a novel set in Marblehead, Massachusetts, she is probably best known as the writer and editor of numerous books and articles dealing with leadership, change, and human resource management issues.

One Harvard case she wrote "How Much You Asking for that Pile-Driver Pad?", involving the pricing of newly invented pile driver hammer pads made of coiled metal in the construction industry, is used heavily in schools around the world[1]. In reality, the use of the pads was prohibited by the pile driver manufacturers but this has no effect on conclusions students might form regarding the case.

She was forced to resign from the Harvard Business Review in early 2002 after admitting to having been involved in an affair with Jack Welch, the former chief executive officer of General Electric who was married at the time, while preparing an interview with him for the magazine. She married Welch later. She did have the interview pulled before it appeared in the Business Review.

The Welches currently live in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston. They co-wrote Winning, published by Random House in May 2005, based on the questions most frequently asked of Jack Welch by the more than 300,000 businessmen he has spoken to since he has retired.