📰 Media & Journalism 1d ago · John Rahim

Harvard Business Review shrank its audience to grow its business

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Harvard Business Review shrank its audience to grow its business
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Group Publisher Erika Heilman on HBR Executive, the 40% of subscribers already at VP level, and the AI tool HBR shelved despite good reviews.



For years Harvard Business Review grew by widening the funnel. Sub-brands multiplied: HBR Ascend for younger professionals, the Women at Work podcast, the HBR Presents network. Articles on how to ask for a pay rise drew heavy traffic.



On the first day at the FIPP World Media Congress in Madrid, Erika Heilman, HBR’s Group Publisher, explained why the

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