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Harvard Business Review (HBR) is a general management magazine published by Harvard Business Publishing, a not-for-profit, independent corporation that is an affiliate of Harvard Business School. HBR is published six times a year and is headquartered in Brighton, Massachusetts. HBR covers a wide range of topics that are relevant to various industries, management functions, and geographic locations. These include leadership, negotiation, strategy, operations, marketing, and finance. Harvard Business Review has published articles by Clayton Christensen, Peter F. Drucker, Justin Fox, Michael E. Porter, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, John Hagel III, Thomas H. Davenport, Gary Hamel, C. K. Prahalad, Vijay Govindarajan, Robert S. Kaplan, Rita Gunther McGrath and others. Several management concepts and business terms were first given prominence in HBR. Harvard Business Review's worldwide English-language circulation is 250,000. HBR licenses its content for publication in nine international editions. Background Early days Harvard Business Review began in 1922 as a magazine for Harvard Business School. Founded under the auspices of Dean Wallace Donham, HBR was meant to be more than just a typical school publication. "The paper [HBR] is intended to be the highest type of business journal that we can make it, and for use by the student and the business man. It is not a school paper," Donham wrote. Initially, HBR's focus was on macroeconomic trends, as well as on important developments within specific industries. Following World War II, HBR emphasized the cutting-edge management techniques that were developed in large corporations, like General Motors, during that time period. Over the next three decades, the magazine continued to refine its focus on general management issues that affect business leaders, billing itself as the "magazine for decision makers". Prominent articles published during this period include "Marketing Myopia" by Theodore Levitt and "Barriers and Gateways to Communication" by Carl R. Rogers and Fritz J. Roethlisberger. 1980s through 2009 In the 1980s, Theodore Levitt became the editor of Harvard Business Review and changed the magazine to make it more accessible to general audiences. Articles were shortened and the scope of the magazine was expanded to include a wider range of topics. In 1994, Harvard Business School formed Harvard Business Publishing (HBP) as an independent entity. In 2002, a management and editorial staff shakeup occurred at the publication after the revelation of an affair between editor-in-chief Suzy Wetlaufer and former General Electric CEO Jack Welch. The two met while Wetlaufer was interviewing Welch while researching an article for the research-based magazine. Two senior Harvard Business Review editors left complaining the affair initiated during Wetlaufer's work with Welch for an article had broken ethical standards and cited an unfair office climate. Shortly after the resignations, Wetlaufer resigned on March 8, 2002 amid further rebuke by remaining staff. Three months later, the publisher, Penelope Muse Abernathy, was also forced out. Between 2006 and 2008, HBP went through several reorganizations but finally settled into the three market-facing groups that exist today: Higher Education, which distributes cases, articles, and book chapters for business education materials; Corporate Learning, which provides standardized on-line and tailored off-line leadership development courses; and Harvard Business Review Group, which publishes Harvard Business Review magazine and its web counterpart (HBR.org), and publishes books (Harvard Business Review Press). Redesign In 2009, HBR brought on Adi Ignatius, the former deputy managing editor of Time magazine, to be its editor-in-chief. Ignatius oversees all editorial operations for Harvard Business Review Group. At the time that Ignatius was hired, the United States was going through an economic recession, but HBR was not covering the topic. "The world was desperate for new approaches. Business-as-usual was not a credible response," Ignatius has recalled. During this period the frequency of HBR switched from ten times per year to six times per year. As a result, Ignatius realigned HBR's focus and goals to make sure that it "delivers information in the zeitgeist that our readers are living in." HBR continues to emphasize research-based, academic pieces that would help readers improve their companies and further their careers, but it broadened its audience and improved reach and impact by including more contemporary topics. As part of the redesigned magazine, Ignatius also led the charge to integrate the print and digital divisions more closely, and gave each edition of HBR a distinct theme and personality, as opposed to being a collection of academically superlative, yet mostly unrelated articles. HBR won the 2020 Webby Award for Business Blog/Website in the category Web. McKinsey Awards Since 1959, the magazine's annual McKinsey Award has recognized the two most significant Harvard Business Review articles published each year, as determined by a group of highly independent judges. Past winners have included Peter F. Drucker, who was honored seven times; Clayton M. Christensen; Theodore Levitt; Michael Porter; Rosabeth Moss Kanter; John Hagel III; and C. K. Prahalad. References External links Official website HBR Global Editions HBR Magazine HBR Case Study Solutions. Discover the Harvard Business Review popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Harvard Business Review books.
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Harvard Business Review on Rebuilding Your Business Model
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Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition
Karen Berman & Joe KnightThe book Inc. magazine calls one of "the best, clearest guides to the numbers" on the market.Inc. magazine calls it one of "the best, clearest guides to the numbers" on the market....
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Lifespan
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Conscious Capitalism
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Harvard Business Review on Winning Negotiations
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Playing to Win
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Harvard Business Review Family Business Handbook
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Harvard Business Review Everyday Emotional Intelligence
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Harvard Business Review on Making Smart Decisions
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The First 90 Days, Updated and Expanded
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Leading Change
John P. KotterThe international bestsellernow with a new preface by author John Kotter.Millions worldwide have read and embraced John Kotter’s ideas on change management and leadership. From the...
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Conscious Capitalism, With a New Preface by the Authors
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Understanding Michael Porter
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Harvard Business Review on Building Better Teams
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Primal Leadership, With a New Preface by the Authors
Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis & Annie McKeeThis is the book that established “emotional intelligence” in the business lexiconand made it a necessary skill for leaders.Managers and professionals across the globe have embrace...
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Harvard Business Review on Increasing Customer Loyalty
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Stats and Curiosities
Harvard Business ReviewFascinating stats… useful tips… entertaining topics.Did you know that to make a task seem easier, all you have to do is lean back a little? Or that retail salespeople who mimic the...
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Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition
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Rebel Talent
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The Outsiders
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The Art of Possibility
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Managing Oneself
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