Background
Attorney, and Mary Kiechel, Kiechel III grew up in Alexandria, Virginia before attending Harvard College on a Reserve Officers" Training Corps scholarship.
Attorney, and Mary Kiechel, Kiechel III grew up in Alexandria, Virginia before attending Harvard College on a Reserve Officers" Training Corps scholarship.
Kiechel was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and graduated Cum Laude in 1968, when he was commissioned into the United States Navy.
He has served as Managing Editor of Fortune magazine and as the Editorial Director of Harvard Business School Publishing, producer of the Harvard Business Review. His most recent work is The Lords of Strategy, which The Wall Street Journal has described as a "clear, deft and cogent" history of the management consulting industry. Born to Walter Kiechel Junior., a prominent Washington, District of Columbia Honorably discharged in 1973, Kiechel went on to the Juris Doctor/Master of Business Administration program at Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, completing his degrees in 1977.
From there he joined Time Incorporated.
(now a part of Time Warner), as a Researcher/Writer for Fortune, where his work covered a variety of topics in the managerial sphere. Ascending the ranks at Fortune, he published his first book, Office Hours: A Guide to the Managerial Life, in 1989, which compiles many of the articles the journalist wrote for his regular column of the same name.
In an unusual move, he was removed from that position less than a year later, and replaced by John Huey, who later became editor-in-chief of all Time Incorporated. publications. Having left Time Incorporated., Kiechel was appointed Editorial Director of Harvard Business School Publishing in 1998, overseeing all editorial content of the Harvard Business Review and all other books and publications of the organization.
Currently, Kiechel continues his career as a freelance writer, authoring articles for such publications as the Washington Post and others
He has one younger sister, Victoria Kiechel, an architect, and one younger brother, Conrad Kiechel, also a journalist. Walter Kiechel makes his home in Hoboken, New Jersey.