Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation Terms of Use

Last Updated: July 10, 2025

BY ACCESSING THIS WEBSITE AND/OR ANY CONTENT ON ANY HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION (“HBP”) WEBSITES (“SITES”), OR ANY OTHER APPLICATIONS, OR ONLINE OR MOBILE PRODUCT OR SERVICES OFFERED BY HBP (INCLUDING ANY SITES OR SERVICES PROVIDED BY HBP THROUGH HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW), AS THEY MAY BE MODIFIED OVER TIME (COLLECTIVELY, THE “SERVICES”) , YOU AGREE TO THESE TERMS OF USE (“TERMS”), WHETHER OR NOT YOU ARE A REGISTERED USER. PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY BEFORE USING ANY SITES OR SERVICES AS THESE TERMS AFFECT YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS.

THESE TERMS CONTAIN A CLASS ACTION WAIVER. THE WAIVER AFFECTS HOW DISPUTES WITH HBP ARE RESOLVED. BY ACCEPTING THESE TERMS, YOU AGREE TO BE LEGALLY BOUND BY ITS PROVISIONS, INCLUDING THOSE REGARDING RESOLUTION OF DISPUTES. PLEASE READ THESE TERMS CAREFULLY.

1. ACCEPTANCE

The terms “you,” “your,” “user,” and “users,” as used herein, refer to all individuals and/or entities accessing the Services for any reason, whether or not they are a registered user.

These Terms govern your use of the Services. By accessing the Services, you agree, without limitation or qualification, to be bound by these Terms and the relevant Service’s policies, including any privacy policies. If you do not agree to be bound by these Terms, you may not access the Services.

HBP may revise these Terms at any time. Your continued usage of these Services will mean you accept those changes, and you agree to comply with all applicable laws and regulations. The materials provided on these Services are protected by law, including, but not limited to, the United States copyright laws and international treaties.

2. ELIGIBILITY

Users must be 18 years of age or older to access or use the Services in any manner. By accessing the Services, you represent and warrant to HBP that you are 18 years of age or older, and that you have the right, authority, and capacity to agree to and abide by these Terms.

3. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY OWNERSHIP AND LICENSE

The design and content utilized in these Services, such as text, graphics, images, audio-visuals, podcasts, simulations, photographs, illustrations, trademarks, trade names, service marks, logos, information and other materials (collectively “Contents”) is the intellectual property of HBP or its licensors and is protected under both United States and foreign laws. Any use of the Contents not expressly permitted by these Terms will be viewed by HBP as a contractual breach of these Terms and may also violate copyright, trademark, and other laws.

Except as expressly stated herein, none of the Contents may be copied, reproduced, distributed, republished, downloaded, displayed, posted or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of HBP or its licensors.

Subject to your compliance with the Terms:

(a) you may access and use the Sites and, solely via the Sites, the Services available on the Sites, and

(b) HBP hereby grants you a non-exclusive, limited, non-transferable, revocable license to use the Contents available on the Sites,

in each case solely for your personal, non-commercial use.

You may not copy, decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, attempt to derive the source code of, modify, or create derivative works of the Services or Contents, or any part thereof. These Terms will govern any upgrades provided by HBP that replace and/or supplement the original Services, unless such upgrade is accompanied by separate or updated Terms. If you violate any of these Terms, your permission to use the Contents and the Services automatically terminates. Any continued use of the Contents or Services after termination will be viewed by HBP as willful infringement of its intellectual property.

None of the Contents or Services may be accessed or used by or with artificial intelligence tools or models for the purposes of generating text, images or any other material, output or derivative works based on or using the Contents or the Services.
You may not bypass, modify, defeat, tamper with or circumvent any of the functions or protections of the Services or Contents. You may not use bots, scrapers, spiders or other automated means to access or extract or copy the Services or the Contents for any purpose, including but not limited to AI training, fine-tuning, evaluation, automated inference or data mining, without HBP’s express prior written permission. Excessive or unauthorized automated access may result in access restrictions or legal action. HBP reserves the right to block, restrict, or terminate access to any user or system found to be violating these terms, and to pursue legal remedies for unauthorized use of the Contents or the Services.

You may not remove, bypass, disable, or otherwise interfere with any attributions, credits copyright notices, digital rights management (DRM), social DRM, watermarking, or other content protection mechanisms embedded in the Services and the Contents.

You may not, without HBP’s prior written permission, “mirror” any Contents contained in the Services on any other server. You may not use the Services for any purpose that is unlawful or prohibited by these Terms. You may not use the Services in any manner that could damage, disable, overburden, or impair the Services, or interfere with any other party’s use and enjoyment of the Services. You may not attempt to gain unauthorized access to the Services or the Contents through hacking, password mining, or disabling rights management mechanisms, or any other means. HBP reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to terminate your access to the Services, or any portion thereof, at any time, for any reason or for no reason at all, without prior notice or any notice.

4. SOFTWARE LICENSE

HBP hereby grants you a limited, revocable, and non-transferable license to use the HBP mobile applications (“App”) on devices you own or have a legal right to use, in accordance with these Terms and any additional terms specific to that particular application. In the event of a conflict between such additional terms for the particular application and these Terms, the additional terms specific to the particular application will prevail. You have no rights to the proprietary software and related documentation, or any enhancements or modifications thereto, provided to you in order to access the App. You may not sublicense, assign or transfer any licenses granted by HBP, and any attempt at such sublicense, assignment or transfer will be null and void. You may make one copy of such App for archival purposes only. You may not otherwise copy, distribute, modify, reverse engineer, or create derivative works from the App.

5. USER SUBMISSIONS

The personal information you submit to HBP is governed by the Privacy Policy.

Except as provided under Submission of Ideas (below), HBP does not claim rights to any information or material a user provides to HBP or posts, uploads, inputs, submits, or transmits to these Services (“Submission”). You agree that you will not make any Submission that is, in whole or in part, libelous; scandalous; inflammatory; discriminatory; defamatory; false; threatening; vulgar; obscene; pornographic; profane; abusive; harassing; invasive of another’s privacy; hateful or bashing; aimed at gender, race, color, sexual orientation, national origin, religious views, or disability; in violation of local, state, national, or international law; or that infringes on, or violates, any personal, moral, proprietary, intellectual, contractual, or other legal right of any party; or that was created in whole or in part with artificial intelligence tools.

Additionally, you agree that you will not: (a) make any Submission that is an advertisement or solicitation of business; (b) disrupt the normal flow of dialogue or make a Submission unrelated to the topic being discussed (unless it is clear the discussion is free-form); (c) post a chain letter or pyramid scheme; (d) impersonate another person; (e) distribute viruses or other harmful computer code; (f) harvest or otherwise collect information about others, including email addresses, without their consent; (g) post the same note more than once or “spamming”; (h) make any Submission that defames, harasses, discriminates against, harms or threatens others; (i) make any Submission that is profane, pornographic, obscene, indecent, unlawful or fraudulent, or infringing any personal, moral, proprietary, intellectual, contractual, or other legal right of any party rights; (j) engage in any other conduct that restricts or inhibits any other person from using or enjoying the Services, or which, in the judgment of HBP, is prejudicial to or exposes HBP and/or its affiliates or any of its licensors, partners, vendors or customers to any liability or detriment of any type.

By making a Submission, you agree that such Submission is non-confidential, non-proprietary, and may be disseminated or used by HBP. If you make a Submission, you automatically grant or warrant that the owner of such content has expressly granted HBP a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, worldwide non-exclusive license to use, reproduce, create derivative works from, modify, publish, edit, translate, distribute, perform, and display the Submission in any media or medium, or any form, format, or forum now known or hereafter developed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, HBP is not required to use any Submission.

You are solely responsible for your Submission, the consequences of making a Submission, and your reliance on any Submissions. You also understand that when using HBP Services and Contents you will be exposed to Submissions of others from a variety of sources and that HBP is not responsible for the accuracy, usefulness, reliability or intellectual property rights of or relating to such Submissions. You further understand and acknowledge that you may be exposed to user Submissions that are inaccurate, infringing any party’s personal, moral, proprietary, intellectual, contractual, or other legal right, offensive, defamatory, indecent or objectionable and you agree to waive, and hereby do waive, any legal or equitable rights or remedies you have or may have against HBP with respect thereto. HBP does not endorse any user Submissions, or any opinion, recommendation or advice expressed therein. HBP has no obligation to monitor any Submissions or any other user communications through the HBP Sites. HBP is not responsible for the content or consequences of any Submission. HBP is not responsible for screening or monitoring Submissions made to the Services by users.

HBP reserves the right (but is not obligated) to: (a) record the dialogue on the Services; (b) investigate an allegation that a Submission does not comply with these Terms and determine in its sole discretion to remove or request the removal of the Submission; (c) remove Submissions which are abusive, illegal, disruptive, or outdated, or that otherwise fail to comply with these Terms; (d) terminate a user’s access to any or all parts of the Services upon any breach of these Terms or the law; (e) monitor, edit, or disclose any Submission; (f) edit or delete any Submission posted on the Services, regardless of whether such Submission violates these Terms.

6. SUBMISSION OF IDEAS

By submitting an idea to HBP you are granting HBP a perpetual, irrevocable, royalty free, non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, translate, make available, distribute and sub-license the idea in whole or in part, and in any form. This may include personal information such as your user or pen name and your expressions of opinion. You waive any moral rights that you may have in regard to the ideas you submit.

If you wish to submit an article to HBP, please only do so through the Article Submissions page, located at Harvard Business Review Submission Manager (submittable.com). Please do not email or mail your article to HBP unless specifically requested to do so by a staff member of HBP.

While HBP editors review any article submitted to our Articles Submissions page, please note that HBP does not and cannot publish all articles that are submitted for consideration. Many articles are only accepted contingent on the Author being willing to make requested changes or edits. Any articles accepted for publication shall be subject to the Author entering into a separate, signed publishing agreement with HBP.

HBP is not responsible for and will not be liable for any damage that may occur to any materials, including articles, submitted by users to HBP.

7. DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY; LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF HBP AND ITS LICENSORS AND PARTNERS

The use of the Services or the Contents is at your own risk. The Contents in these Services could include technical inaccuracies and/or typographical errors. HBP may make changes or improvements to the Contents and/or the Services at any time.

THE CONTENTS OF THESE SERVICES ARE PROVIDED “AS IS” AND WITHOUT WARRANTIES OF ANY KIND EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, OR NON-INFRINGEMENT. TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, HBP DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. HBP DOES NOT WARRANT THAT THE OPERATION OF THE SERVICES WILL BE UNINTERRUPTED OR ERROR-FREE, THAT DEFECTS WILL BE CORRECTED, OR THAT THESE SERVICES OR THE SERVERS THAT MAKE THEM AVAILABLE ARE FREE OF VIRUSES OR OTHER HARMFUL COMPONENTS. HBP DOES NOT WARRANT OR MAKE ANY REPRESENTATIONS REGARDING THE USE OF OR THE RESULT OF THE USE OF THE CONTENTS ON THESE SERVICES IN TERMS OF THEIR CORRECTNESS, ACCURACY, CURRENTNESS, SECURITY, RELIABILITY, OR OTHERWISE. HBP MAKES NO REPRESENTATION REGARDING YOUR ABILITY TO TRANSMIT AND RECEIVE INFORMATION FROM OR THROUGH THE SERVICES, AND YOU AGREE AND ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOUR ABILITY TO ACCESS THE PROGRAMS AND SERVICES MAY BE IMPAIRED.

HBP WILL NOT BE LIABLE FOR DELAY OR FAILURE IN PERFORMANCES FOR CAUSES BEYOND ITS CONTROL OR ANY OTHER DAMAGE WHICH DOES NOT RESULT FROM A BREACH OF ITS OBLIGATIONS UNDER THESE TERMS.

TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMISSIBLE PURSUANT TO APPLICABLE LAW, HBP ASSUMES NO LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT, FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, SPECIAL, CONSEQUENTIAL, INCIDENTAL, OR PUNITIVE DAMAGES, INCLUDING (WITHOUT LIMITATION) DAMAGES FOR LOSS OF DATA, LOSSES DUE TO ERRORS OR INTERRUPTION IN AVAILABILITY OF ANY SERVICES OR CONTENT, UNAVAILABILITY OF ANY SERVICE OR CONTENT, SERVER OR COMMUNICATIONS FACILITY, LOSS OF ANTICIPATED PROFITS OR REVENUE OR OTHER ECONOMIC LOSS IN CONNECTION WITH OR ARISING FROM THE SERVICES OR ANY ACT OR OMISSION BY HBP, ITS AGENTS, AFFILIATES, JOINT VENTURE PARTNERS, INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS, OR UNAFFILIATED THIRD PARTIES AS A RESULT OF ANY ACT OR OMISSION IN FULFILLMENT OF OR IN BREACH OF THESE TERMS OR THE PRIVACY POLICY.

HBP’S TOTAL CUMULATIVE LIABILITY TO YOU ARISING OUT OF OR RELATED TO THE AGREEMENTS, THE SERVICES (INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, IN THE WAYS DESCRIBED IN THE PRECEDING SENTENCE), WHETHER BASED IN CONTRACT, TORT, STATUTORY OR OTHER LAW, WILL NOT EXCEED THE GREATER OF (1) THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF FEES RECEIVED BY HBP FROM YOU OR ON YOUR BEHALF FOR OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SERVICES IN ANY TWELVE MONTH PERIOD OR (2) USD $100. THE DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS SET FORTH IN THIS SECTION SHALL APPLY, TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, WHETHER OR NOT HBP HAS BEEN NEGLIGENT OR OTHERWISE AT FAULT.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT THE WARRANTY DISCLAIMERS AND THE LIMITATIONS OF LIABILITY SET FORTH IN THESE TERMS REFLECT A REASONABLE AND FAIR ALLOCATION OF RISK BETWEEN YOU AND HBP, AND THAT THESE LIMITATIONS ARE ESSENTIAL TO HBP’S WILLINGNESS TO MAKE THE SERVICES AVAILABLE TO YOU. EACH OF THESE DISCLAIMERS AND LIMITATIONS IS INTENDED TO BE SEPARATELY ENFORCEABLE, REGARDLESS OF WHETHER ANY OTHER REMEDY FAILS OF ITS ESSENTIAL PURPOSE.

8. YOUR ACCOUNT

If you register/use these Services, you are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account and password and for restricting access to your computer. You agree to accept responsibility for all activities that occur under your account or password. HBP reserves the right to terminate accounts, or remove or edit content in its sole discretion.

Each registration and subscription is for the personal use of the registered user or subscriber only. You may not share your log-in details or password with any other person. You may not share or transfer your registration/subscription.

9. CONTACT WITH THIRD PARTIES AND THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

The Services may contain hyperlinks to other websites and webpages (“Third-Party Pages”), as well as to text, graphics, videos, images, music, sounds, and information belonging to or originating from other third parties (collectively, “Third-Party Applications”). The inclusion of any hyperlinks to any Third-Party Pages or Third-Party Applications on the Services does not indicate HBP’s approval or endorsement thereof, and HBP is not responsible for such content and makes no representations or warranties regarding such content. These links are provided solely as a convenience or benefit to users, and these Terms and Privacy Policy are not applicable to such content. If you choose to leave the Services to access any Third-Party Pages or Third-Party Applications, you do so at your own risk. You agree that HBP shall have no liability with respect to any loss or damage of any kind incurred as a result of any dealings between you and any third party, or as a result of the presence of such third party on the Services.

10. INDEMNITY

You agree to defend, indemnify, and hold HBP, its affiliates and their respective officers, directors, employees, agents, licensors, and partners, harmless from and against any claims, actions, demands, liabilities, and settlements including, without limitation, reasonable legal and accounting fees, resulting from, alleged to result from, or in any way related to your use of the Services or Contents, or your violation of these Terms, including any liability or expense arising from any and all claims, losses, damages (actual and consequential), suits, judgments, litigation costs, and attorneys’ fees, of every kind and nature.

11. MODIFICATION OR SUSPENSION OF THE SERVICES

You agree that HBP may, in its sole discretion and at any time, modify, discontinue, or suspend its operation or your use of the Services, any part thereof or any Contents, temporarily or permanently, without notice or liability to you. If you no longer desire to participate in the Services, you may terminate your participation at any time. The rights granted to you hereunder will terminate upon any termination of your right to use the Services, but the other provisions of the Agreements will survive any such termination.

12. GENERAL

HBP makes no claims that the Services or the Contents are appropriate or may be downloaded outside of the United States of America. Access to the Services or the Contents may not be legal by certain persons or in certain countries. If you access the Services or the Contents from outside the United States, you do so at your own risk and are responsible for compliance with the laws of your jurisdiction. The following provisions survive the expiration or termination of these Terms for any reason whatsoever: Disclaimers of Warranty; Limitation of Liability of HBP and its Licensors and Partners, Software License, Intellectual Property Ownership and License, User Submissions, Submission of Ideas, Indemnity, Applicable Laws, Class Action Waiver and Complete Agreement.

HBP’s goal is to provide digital accessibility for people with disabilities. While we strive to make all content accessible, some features may not yet be fully adapted to the strictest accessibility standards. If you experience any difficulty accessing any part of our site, please contact us at [email protected] so we can assist you and improve our accessibility efforts.

13. APPLICABLE LAWS

1. Choice of Law and Venue

You agree that these Terms and any claim or dispute arising out of or relating to these Terms, the Services, the Contents, or your use of the Services or the Contents, whether based in contract, tort, statute, fraud, misrepresentation or any other legal theory, will be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, excluding its conflicts of laws principles. You agree that all such claims and disputes will be heard and resolved exclusively in the federal or state courts located in and serving Middlesex or Suffolk County, Massachusetts, U.S.A. You consent to the personal jurisdiction of those courts over you for this purpose, and you waive and agree not to assert any objection to such proceedings in those courts (including any defense or objection of lack of proper jurisdiction or inconvenience of forum).

2. Validity and No Waiver

If any provision of these Terms is found to be invalid by any court having competent jurisdiction, the invalidity of such provision shall not affect the validity of the remaining provisions of these Terms, which shall remain in full force and effect. No waiver of any of these Terms shall be deemed a further or continuing waiver of such term or condition or any other term or condition.

14. CLASS ACTION WAIVER.

YOU ACKNOWLEDGE AND AGREE THAT YOU ARE WAIVING YOUR RIGHT TO PARTICIPATE AS A PLAINTIFF OR CLASS MEMBER IN ANY PURPORTED CLASS OR REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING, INCLUDING WITHOUT LIMITATION A FEDERAL OR STATE CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT, REPRESENTATIVE PROCEEDING, OR PRIVATE ATTORNEY GENERAL ACTION.

15. TERMINATION; NOTICE AND TAKE DOWN PROCEDURES

In an effort to protect the rights of copyright owners, HBP may terminate or suspend access to and/or use of all or parts of the Services or App in its sole discretion, in appropriate circumstances, of users of these Services who are infringers. These rights of termination are in addition to all other rights and remedies available to HBP under these Terms or by law or equity.

If you believe any material accessible on or from the Services infringes your copyright, you may request removal of those materials (or access thereto) from these Services by contacting HBP (contact information below) and providing the following information:

1. Identification of the copyrighted work that you believe to be infringed. Please describe the work, and where possible include a copy or the location (e.g., URL) of an authorized version of the work;
2. Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and its location. Please describe the material, and provide us with its URL or any other pertinent information that will allow us to locate the material;
3. Your name, address, telephone number, and (if available) email address;
4. A statement that you have a good faith belief that the complained use of the work is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law;
5. A statement that the information you have supplied is accurate, and indicating that “under penalty of perjury,” you are the copyright owner or authorized representative; and
6. A signature or electronic equivalent from the copyright holder or authorized representative.

Our address for copyright issues relating to this website is as follows:
Attn: Tim Nicholls, Manager of Intellectual Property
Phone: 1 888 500 1020
E-mail: [email protected]
Address: 20 Guest Street, Suite 400, Brighton, MA 02135

16. COMPLETE AGREEMENT

Except as expressly provided in a particular notice or disclaimer posted by or on behalf of HBP on the HBP Sites, these Terms, including HBP Privacy Policy, constitute the entire agreement between you and HBP with respect to the use of the Services, Sites and Contents. Some terms applicable to your use of a particular Service may be provided to you at the time of registration, purchase, or access or on Service-specific web pages. Those additional terms may include, among other things, terms relating to the act of registering or Service requirements. Your registration or participation also shall be subject to compliance with those additional terms.

17. WAIVER AND SEVERABILITY

The failure of HBP to exercise or enforce any right or provision of the Terms shall not constitute a waiver of such right or provision. If any provision of the Terms is found by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, the parties nevertheless agree that the court should endeavor to give effect to the parties’ intentions as reflected in the provision and the other provisions of the Terms shall remain in full force and effect.