washingtonpost.com Adds Leadership Features to Business Section

Business Wire, July 14, 2008

Partners with Management Authority HarvardBusiness.org and Cutting-edge Video Web site BigThink.com

WASHINGTON -- washingtonpost.com's Business section today introduces new content for the leaders and innovators in today's marketplace from HarvardBusiness.org, the digital home of Harvard Business Publishing and leading online source of management insights, and BigThink.com, an innovative and widely popular new video Web site. The content is available here: http://blog.washingtonpost.com/leadership

"Business leaders already rely on washingtonpost.com for the nation's top business policy reporting," said Jim Brady, Executive Editor of washingtonpost.com. "Our partnerships with HarvardBusiness.org and BigThink.com add a new channel to this coverage, letting readers directly learn from the experts in business management and get advice from the innovators out in the field revolutionizing a variety of industries."

In an original blog for washingtonpost.com, "The Intelligent Leader," HarvardBusiness.org's Scott Berinato will uncover the role that leadership plays in the issues making business headlines. When a top CEO is ousted from a position, Berinato will go in-depth to figure out where things went wrong. Other features from HarvardBusiness.org include "Management Tip of the Day"--practical ideas for becoming a more effective manager--and select content from Harvard Business Review. And, soon to come, HarvardBusiness.org will provide video interviews with CEOs, management experts, and leading authors.

"HarvardBusiness.org is pleased to complement washingtonpost.com's coverage with daily insights that readers--whether they work in business, policy, or government--can use to more effectively manage their organizations and careers and to gain deeper understanding of the issues making headlines," said Josh Macht, Executive Director of Harvard Business Digital.

BigThink.com, in an original video interview series, "Voices on Leadership," for washingtonpost.com, asks some of the nation top CEO's and the heads of fast-growing companies what it takes to be a successful leader in today's marketplace. Launching the series today, Kevin Plank, CEO of Under Armour sports apparel discusses the challenges of running a mid-cap business. The series will feature one new interview per week and upcoming guests will include BORDERS CEO George Jones, Business Guru Marshall Goldsmith, Harvard Business School Professors Quinn Mills, Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Nancy Koehn, among many others.

"We are delighted to be working with washingtonpost.com on the 'Voices on Leadership' series to bring its audience insights from some of the best minds in business today," said Victoria R.M. Brown, Co-founder of BigThink.com.

"Voices on Leadership" is the third video interview series washingtonpost.com has featured in partnership with BigThink.com. The "Voices on Personal Technology" and "Voices on Small Business" are currently available and regularly feature new video interviews every week.

Content from HarvardBusiness.org and Big Think's "Voices on Leadership" series is sponsored by SAP.

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