Waggoner Library: Business Online: Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review

The library subscribes to the Harvard Business Review (HBR) in an online format accessible through library databases.

Academic OneFile, Business Insights: Essentials, Educators Reference Complete, and General OneFile databases have only access to HBR from Jan. 1997 – May 2000. However, primary access is through the database Business Source Ultimate, which has full coverage to 1922-present.

Harvard Business Review (Journal)
See the databases with date ranges for holdings for the Harvard Business Review. Links are clickable.

Use Business Search Ultimate to search the journal by topic.

Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
This database contains all the articles from HBR from 1922 to the present. It is the most comprehensive source to find HBR articles. If you encounter a read-only article check out the HBR restrictions tab for more information.

Restrictions on HBR Articles

Many HBR articles can be found in full text through Business Source Ultimate. However, some articles published by Harvard Business Review have restrictions placed on them by the publisher. Typically, these are high-use articles. The restrictions limit printing, saving, emailing, or downloading the full text of the article. You can read the article online with no restrictions.

Harvard Business School Press Books
Explore the biggest ideas in business from Harvard Business Review Press, with bestselling titles covering topics like effective leadership, work-life balance, finance, managing people, burnout, and much more. (Book reviews from BSU)

Harvard Business School Cases (Abstracts only in BSU)
Case studies are written by professors at HBS and at renowned business programs worldwide and offer slices of business life, focusing on actual problems and decisions companies face.

HBR Guide Series

HBR Guides are for busy managers looking for smart answers to common challenges.

Each guide is packed with useful tips and practical advice from leading experts.

Plus, find downloadable tools and templates to help you get started.

The library has primarily eBook copies available.

HBR Guide Series
HBR Guides offer practical information and tips for managers. The library has 19 titles in the series.

HBR 10 Must Read Series

The HBR 10 Must Read book series contains classic HBR articles on various topics.

Articles in these collections can be accessed individually through Business Source Ultimate. These individual articles are subject to publisher restrictions within the databases.

Waggoner's HBR 10 Must Read titles are primarily in eBook format. Click the link below to view the list of titles.

HBR 10 Must Read Series
HBR combed through hundreds of Harvard Business Review articles and selected the most important ones, collecting them by topic. Click the link to see the list of titles in Discovery.

Licensing Agreement for Faculty use

Licensing Agreement

Harvard Business Publishing prohibits the collecting/posting of case, article, or chapter files on "e-reserve" course pages or institutional platform, such as Desire2Learn (D2L) [or Canvas]..

Only approved coursepack or institutional access links to content may be posted for student use unless otherwise authorized. Authorized links must be password-protected, accessible only to students in the course, and taken down at the end of the course.