Thomas A. Stewart is a member of the Board of Editors of Fortune magazine, where his monthly column "The Leading Edge," is read by 870,000 readers. Stewart pioneered the field of intellectual capital in a series of landmark Fortune articles that have earned him an international reputation as the leading expert on the subject. In 1994, the Planning Forum called him "the leading proponent of knowledge management in the business press" and in 1996 he received the International Knowledge Management Awareness Award, presented at the International Knowledge Management Conference in London. His book Intellectual Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations was published by Currency Doubleday in 1997.
For Fortune, he has written 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 addition to his extensive writing about intellectual capital, he has explored emerging electronic marketplaces, the influence of networks on business, and the economic and management implications of the Information Age in cover stories such as "Managing in a Wired World" and "Managing in an Era of Change." He is the author of cover stories on General Electric, the Gulf War, the changing nature of executive power, the state of American competitiveness, business process reengineering, and gay and lesbian executives, and helped to coordinate and chiefly wrote a cover package on the ideas that are fundamentally driving business in the Nineties. Richard Koppes, chief counsel of the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CALPERS), said that his cover story "The King Is Dead" is "the most complete and readable account of the 'corporate governance movement' that I have read to date." In 1993, The Journal of Financial Reporting named Mr. Stewart to its "Blue-Chip Newsroom" of best business journalists.
Stewart joined Fortune in 1989, following an eighteen-year career in book publishing, during which he held editorial and managerial positions, including the presidency of Atheneum Publishers. A 1970 graduate of Harvard College (summa cum laude in English literature), he lives in New York with his wife and two children. He is available for speeches about intellectual capital and other subjects.
The Wealth of Knowledge: Intellectual Capital and the Twenty-First Century Organization