BestArticles From HBR - LIST

100 YEARS 1908-2008

FROM HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL

Three types of best articles

M = McKinsey Award Winner At Harvard Business Review.

B = Best Seller list The best-seller list includes the top 100 articles as measured by cumulative sales.

C = Classic Third, Articles republished as "HBR Classics" or "Best of HBR." HBR has published 71 classics since the first one, in 1965.

1940s & 1950s
Low-Pressure Selling
C
Edward C. Bursk
Winter 1947;
republished July-August 2006
REPRINT R0607M

Barriers and Gateways to Communication
B C
Carl R. Rogers and F.J. Roethlisberger
July-August 1952;
republished November-December 1991
REPRINT 91610

How to Deal with Resistance to Change
B C
Paul R. Lawrence
May-June 1954;
republished January-February 1969
REPRINT 69107

1960s
Marketing Myopia
M B C
Theodore Levitt
July-August 1960;
republished September-October 1975 and July-August 2004
REPRINT R0407L

New Framework for Corporate Debt Policy
C
Gordon Donaldson
March-April 1962;
republished September-October 1978
REPRINT 78504

Creativity Is Not Enough
C
Theodore Levitt
May-June 1963;
republished August 2002
REPRINT R0208K

Positive Program for Performance Appraisal
B
Alva F. Kindall and James Gatza
November-December 1963
REPRINT 63609

What Do You Mean I Can't Write?
B
John Fielden
May-June 1964
REPRINT 64305

Exploit the Product Life Cycle
B
Theodore Levitt
November-December 1965
REPRINT 65608

Manufacturing - Missing Link in Corporate Strategy
B
Wickham Skinner
May-June 1969
REPRINT 69312

Pygmalion in Management
B C
J. Sterling Livingston
July-August 1969;
republished January 2003
REPRINT R0301G

1970s
Beyond Theory Y
B
John J. Morse and Jay W. Lorsch
May-June 1970
REPRINT 70307

Myth of the Well-Educated Manager
M B
J. Sterling Livingston
January-February 1971
REPRINT 71108

General Managers in the Middle
B C
Hugo E.R. Uyterhoeven
March-April 1972;
republished September-October 1989
REPRINT 89512

Evolution and Revolution as Organizations Grow
B C
Larry E. Greiner
July-August 1972;
republished May-June 1998
REPRINT 98308

Production-Line Approach to Service
M
Theodore Levitt
September-October 1972
REPRINT 72505

What Kind of Management Control Do You Need?
B
Richard F. Vancil
March-April 1973
REPRINT 73213

Managing the Four Stages of EDP Growth
B
Cyrus F. Gibson and Richard L. Nolan
January-February 1974
REPRINT 74104

The Focused Factory
B
Wickham Skinner
May-June 1974
REPRINT 74308

Market Share - A Key to Profitability
B
Robert D. Buzzell, Bradley T. Gale, and Ralph G.M. Sultan
January-February 1975
REPRINT 75103

A Case for Historical Costs
M
Robert N. Anthony
November-December 1976
REPRINT 76602

Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?
M B C
Abraham Zaleznik
May-June 1977;
republished March-April 1992 and January 2004
REPRINT R0401G

Power, Dependence, and Effective Management
B
John P. Kotter
July-August 1977
REPRINT 77409

Choosing Strategies for Change
B
John P. Kotter and Leonard A. Schlesinger
March-April 1979
REPRINT 79202

How Competitive Forces Shape Strategy
M B
Michael E. Porter
March-April 1979
REPRINT 79208

1980s
Managing Your Boss
M B C
John J. Gabarro and John P. Kotter
January-February 1980;
republished May-June 1993 and January 2005
REPRINT R0501J

Marketing Success Through Differentiation - Of Anything
B
Theodore Levitt
January-February 1980
REPRINT 80107

Managing Our Way to Economic Decline
M B C
Robert H. Hayes and William J. Abernathy
July-August 1980;
republished July-August 2007
REPRINT R0707L

Major Sales: Who Really Does the Buying?
C
Thomas V. Bonoma
May-June 1982;
republished July-August 2006


Managing as if Tomorrow Mattered
M
Robert H. Hayes and David A. Garvin
May-June 1982


What Effective General Managers Really Do
B C
John P. Kotter
November-December 1982;
republished March-April 1999


The Globalization of Markets
B
Theodore Levitt
May-June 1983


Quality on the Line
M B
David A. Garvin
September-October 1983


Information Technology Changes the Way You Compete
B
F. Warren McFarlan
May-June 1984

Yesterday's Accounting Undermines Production
M
Robert S. Kaplan
July-August 1984


From Control to Commitment in the Workplace
B
Richard E. Walton
March-April 1985


When a New Manager Takes Charge
C
John J. Gabarro
May-June 1985;
republished January 2007


How Information Gives You Competitive Advantage
B
Michael E. Porter and Victor E. Millar
July-August 1985


The Productivity Paradox
M
Wickham Skinner
July-August 1986


From Competitive Advantage to Corporate Strategy
M B
Michael E. Porter
May-June 1987


Competing on the Eight Dimensions of Quality
B
David A. Garvin
November-December 1987


The House of Quality
B
John R. Hauser and Don Clausing
May-June 1988


Tough-Minded Ways to Get Innovative
C
Andrall E. Pearson
May-June 1988;
republished August 2002


The Power of Unconditional Service Guarantees
M B
Christopher W.L. Hart
July-August 1988


Real Work
C
Abraham Zaleznik
January-February 1989;
republished November-December 1997


Eclipse of the Public Corporation
M
Michael C. Jensen
September-October 1989


1990s
The Competitive Advantage of Nations
B
Michael E. Porter
March-April 1990


What Leaders Really Do
B C
John P. Kotter
May-June 1990;
republished December 2001


Why Change Programs Don't Produce Change
B
Michael Beer, Russell A. Eisenstat, and Bert Spector
November-December 1990


Teaching Smart People How to Learn
B
Chris Argyris
May-June 1991


The Balanced Scorecard - Measures That Drive Performance
B C
Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
January-February 1992;
republished July-August 2005


Staple Yourself to an Order
C
Benson P. Shapiro, V. Kasturi Rangan, and John J. Sviokla
July-August 1992;
republished July-August 2004


What Is a Global Manager?
C
Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal
September-October 1992;
republished August 2003


Building a Learning Organization
M
David A. Garvin
July-August 1993


Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
B
Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
September-October 1993


Putting the Service-Profit Chain to Work
B
James L. Heskett, Thomas O. Jones, Gary W. Loveman,
W. Earl Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger
March-April 1994


Good Communication That Blocks Learning
M
Chris Argyris
July-August 1994


Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave
M B
Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen
January-February 1995


Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail
B C
John P. Kotter
March-April 1995;
republished January 2007


Competing on Resources: Strategy in the 1990s
B
David J. Collis and Cynthia A. Montgomery
July-August 1995


The Right Game: Use Game Theory to Shape Strategy
B
Adam M. Brandenburger and Barry J. Nalebuff
July-August 1995


Thriving Locally in the Global Economy
C
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
September-October 1995;



Using the Balanced Scorecard as a Strategic Management System
B C
Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
January-February 1996;
republished July-August 2007


What Is Strategy?
M B
Michael E. Porter
November-December 1996


The Hidden Traps in Decision Making
C
John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa
September-October 1998;
republished January 2006


2000s
Strategy and the Internet
M B
Michael E. Porter
March 2001


Skate to Where the Money Will Be
M
Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Raynor, and Matt Verlinden
November 2001

The Competitive Advantage of Corporate Philanthropy
M
Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer
December 2002


Fixing Health Care from the Inside, Today
M
Steven J. Spear
September 2005


Regional Strategies for Global Leadership
M
Pankaj Ghemawat
December 2005


Strategy and Society: The Link Between Competitive Advantage and
Corporate Social Responsibility
M
Michael E. Porter and Mark R. Kramer
December 2006


The list is published in HBR as

Influential Articles. Harvard Business Review, 00178012, Jan2008, Vol. 86, Issue 1