Does the Library have access to Harvard Business Review (HBR) Case Studies?
Answer
Harvard Business School's case studies are a popular requested item here at McDermott Library. Access to the case studies can be explained by first making the following important distinction:
- Case studies distributed through Harvard Business Publishing must be purchased individually online via www.hbr.org/case-studies. Libraries cannot purchase this content.
- Case studies published in Harvard Business Review are accessible through Library-provided links because your Library subscribes to this journal. See instructions below.
Some other offerings, like the HBR Visual Library, are available to individual subscribers only.
Accessing articles from Harvard Business Review (HBR):
1) From the Library homepage, enter "harvard business review" under the Discover tab in the main search area. Click the search button.
2) In your results, look for the record that says "Journal" above the title and click Available Online.
3) Find links to this journal under the View Online section. Note that the Business Source Complete link covers a wider date range, from 1922 to present day.
4) On the resulting page (EBSCOhost), you can either browse by year, volume on the right side or click the "Search within this publication" link just above the Publication Details and use keywords, author names, or article titles to search within HBR.
Important tips regarding sharing of Harvard Business Review content:
Send only the citation information, rather than a url or saved PDF if you wish to share content from HBR. The recipient must navigate using the steps above or the library-provided link to Business Source Complete in order to access full text.
- Copying and sending the url / link from a full text HBR article will not work for the recipient. The links to HBR are not static; they are designed to have credentials verified before providing full text.
- It is a violation of the terms of use policy to save the full text PDF of HBR content and share with others.
- Articles denoted as "limited access" cannot be saved or printed.
For additional help finding business case studies in general, see the Word document "Finding Case Studies" linked below.