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Accessing the Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Publishing

Starting 2013, Harvard Business Review changed its policy on printing some of its most-read articles.

These articles have been set to "read only," which means that they cannot be printed. A PDF of the article may be downloaded and saved, but printing has been disabled within the file.

The spreadsheet below provides a list of the 500 articles impacted by this change.

HBR 500 Read Only List
A spreadsheet of the 500 articles impacted by the August 2013 change.

MSU Libraries subscribes to the Harvard Business Review in a variety of places. Here is the quickest place to get access to articles published 1922-PRESENT:

Business Source Complete
This database contains all the articles from HBR from 1922 to the present. If you encounter a read-only article, check out the 'HBR 500 Read Only List' below or contact us for help.

Licensing Agreement

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

Only approved course pack 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.