Business Research

This guide will help you get started researching in business disciplines.

Requesting a Harvard Business Case Study for Courses

HBR Case Studies: Harvard Business Publishing prohibits instructors from making copies of the case studies to give to students. 

The only way for instructors to access these case studies is by creating a course pack through Harvard Business for educators. Students purchase the case studies at a discounted price directly from the course pack. If you are an instructor for the Walton College of Business, please contact Sandy Kizer regarding HBR course packs.

Harvard Business Materials

Restrictions on Using Harvard Business Review

Harvard Business Review Notice of Use Restrictions:

May 2009 Harvard Business Review and Harvard Business Publishing Newsletter content on EBSCOhost is licensed for the private individual use of authorized EBSCOhost users. It is not intended for use as assigned course material in academic institutions nor as corporate learning or training materials in businesses. Academic licensees may not use this content in electronic reserves, electronic course packs, persistent linking from syllabi or by any other means of incorporating the content into course resources. Business licensees may not host this content on learning management systems or use persistent linking or other means to incorporate the content into learning management systems. Harvard Business Publishing will be pleased to grant permission to make this content available through such means. For rates and permission, contact permissions@harvardbusiness.org.

HBR 500 Read-Only Articles

Harvard Business Review 500 read-only articles:

On August 1, 2013, all databases containing Harvard Business Review, became “read only” for 500 (HBR 500) of the most popular Harvard Business Review articles. The attachment shown above  contains a list of the 500 articles. As a reminder:

  • The HBR 500 articles cannot be downloaded
  • The HBR 500 articles cannot be linked to Blackboard
  • The HBR 500 articles cannot be saved to individual EBSCO accounts