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Harvard Business Review

Expert articles, no promotion

Business management magazine for senior leaders. Pitches for expert articles go by email to an editor for authors who know one and otherwise through Submittable; it does not publish pieces that read as promotion of the author's products or services.

Harvard Business Review is a tech publication at hbr.org. It covers AI startups, with a rule: expert articles, no promotion. Listing is free, with paid spots on offer. Review: no standard process and no formal acceptance; it cannot reply to every unsolicited proposal, and promising ones are developed with an editor over several rounds of edits. Terms read on hbr.org on 3 October 2026.

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Price: Free to pitch; sponsor content and advertising through its advertising sales team, no price stated
Link you get: not stated
Review: No standard process and no formal acceptance; it cannot reply to every unsolicited proposal, and promising ones are developed with an editor over several rounds of edits
Run by: Harvard Business Publishing
Their rule: Expert articles, no promotion
Lists: Every kind of AI product
Where they say so: hbr.org/guidelines-for-authors ↗
Reach: HugeHuge reach: #890 by traffic in the Tranco top million; #354 of about 120 million domains by links in Common Crawl's web graph.
Checked: 3 October 2026, on its own pages

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Does Harvard Business Review cover AI startups?: Only some. It covers AI startups, with a rule: expert articles, no promotion.
How much does a listing on Harvard Business Review cost?: Listing is free, with paid spots on offer.
How does Harvard Business Review review submissions?: Review: no standard process and no formal acceptance; it cannot reply to every unsolicited proposal, and promising ones are developed with an editor over several rounds of edits.

Who is listed on Harvard Business Review

Our nightly read of hbr.org found 17 apps we recognise from other places, among them favicon.im, favicon.io, favicon.love, customer.io, research.google, static.com, chrome.com, android.com. As of 8 Oct 2026. Your tracker checks whether yours is there.

How to submit to Harvard Business Review

1. Prepare the kit. A one-line pitch, a description, a square logo and screenshots, and check that your product fits their rule: expert articles, no promotion. The listing guide lists what forms ask for; the tracker builds the kit from your website.
2. Open the form. Their submit page opens from the button above once you are signed in; signing in costs nothing.
3. Wait for the review. No standard process and no formal acceptance; it cannot reply to every unsolicited proposal, and promising ones are developed with an editor over several rounds of edits. Pay only for a spot you asked for; the listing itself is what the price above says. Log the submission in your tracker; it marks the listing when it appears.

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