Harvard Business Review
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Harvard Business Review is a general management magazine published since 1922 by Harvard Business School Publishing, owned by the Harvard Business School. A research-based magazine written for business practitioners, it claims a high ranking business readership and enjoys the reverence of academics, executives, and management consultants. It has been the frequent publishing home for well known scholars and management thinkers, among them Clayton M. Christensen, Peter F. Drucker, Michael E. Porter, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Gary Hamel, C.K. Prahalad, Robert S. Kaplan, and others. Management and business concepts and terms such as "the balanced scorecard," "core competence," "strategic intent," "reengineering," "globalization," "marketing myopia," and "the glass ceiling" were first given prominence in HBR's pages. Its worldwide English-language circulation is 240,000, and there are ten translated editions of the magazine. The magazine is editorially independent of Harvard Business School. It is not peer reviewed.
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. Two senior 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 amid further rebuke by remaining staff. Three months later, the publisher, Penelope Muse Abernathy, was also forced out.
The Editor and Managing Director Harvard Business Review is currently Thomas Stewart. Under Stewart's leadership the Review has worked to use strategic partnerships to expand its reach. This has included the 2006 launch of a global risk series, the Global Risk Navigator [1], with global political risk consultancy Eurasia Group.
