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PERMISSION TO COPY

Copyright permission is the authorization to make a copy of a purchased, clean copy of one of our products. Each copyright permission covers a single copy, so you need to purchase one (1) copyright permission for each copy of the item you intend to distribute. Copyright permission is only the authorization to make a copy and does not include a master copy from which to make the copy. If you already have a copy of the item and only need to purchase copyright permissions, on the product detail page, increase the quantity for Copyright Permission to the number you need to distribute, lower the quantity of the PDF to zero (0) and click the red ‘Add To Cart’ button and then ‘Check out’ on the resulting page.

GENERATIVE AI

Please contact the HBP Special Permissions Team.

Translating cases and articles for handouts

Many items in the HBP catalog are available in multiple languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese and Japanese.

If you wish to translate a case or article into other languages, special permission is required. Please note, we do not grant permission for any adaptation, edit, excerpt or summary of any case; a case must be translated in full.

Please submit your request to translate to the HBP Special Permissions Team via email including the following information:

  • The HBP product title, author, and product number
  • Language for which you are requesting translation rights
  • How you plan to use/distribute the translated content including:
    • course name, number, professor, course level (undergraduate/graduate/MBA/Ex Ed), and semester
    • number of copies you wish to distribute broken out by language and format (electronic/print)
  • Mailing and billing address
  • PO number or other reference to be included on our invoice

Translation of an Entire HBR Press Book

Please contact the HBP Foreign Rights Department via email [email protected]

Republishing Harvard Business Publishing content

If you wish to republish HBP content, special permission is required. Please note, we do not grant permission for any adaptation, edit, excerpt or summary of any case; a case must be republished in full. Please note, no more than three HBS cases may be included in a textbook and the total HBS material cannot exceed 20% of the book.

Please submit your request to republish to the HBP Special Permissions Team via email including the following information:

  • The HBP product title, author, and product number
  • How you plan to use republished content (including publication title, author, quantity, volume, etc.):
  • Format of republished content (electronic/print)
  • Mailing and billing address
  • PO number or other reference to be included on our invoice

Republishing a full HBR article in a magazine, periodical, journal, or newsletter

please contact the New York Times Syndicate as indicated below.

United States and Canada
The New York Times Syndication Sales Corp.
620 8th Avenue,
New York, NY 10018
via email [email protected]

All Other Countries
Visit this page for country-specific contact information.

If you are planning on republishing just an excerpt in a magazine, periodical, journal, or newsletter please email the HBP Special Permissions Team.

Digital Materials and Course Planning

HBP is pleased to offer its content for higher education use in a variety of ways, including a Course Planning system, which allows faculty to plan and organize HBP materials by course, with several delivery options. Learn more: Except for these options, we prohibit the posting of cases, articles, or chapters on “e-reserve” course pages for student access, as well as in “electronic coursepacks” that link to our digitized content and content postings on course management systems such as WebCT or Blackboard. Such unauthorized postings are equivalent to distributing our copyrighted content to students without permission, which infringes that copyright. This is so even if the content is being used for the first time and is password-protected, accessible only to students in the course, and taken down at the end of the course.

If your particular copyright needs are not addressed above, please contact [email protected] or call:

888 500 1020 (toll-free inside the US and Canada)

+1 617 783 7587 (outside the US and Canada)

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