The Best of HBR

Here at Harvard Business Review, we strive in every article we publish to deliver the ideas, insights, and practical guidance you need to accelerate your business or advance your career. Each year an august panel of judges—drawn from both academia and the private sector—selects our very best article, which is honored with the HBR McKinsey Award. The judges score every issue’s feature articles on the basis of their rigor, relevance, and readability. The top-scoring articles make the ballot, which we present again to the judges, as well as to members of our Advisory Council of readers, for a final vote. And the latest results are in! The winner of the 2015 HBR McKinsey award is “Engineering Reverse Innovations,” by Amos Winter and Vijay Govindarajan. The piece, which appeared in our July–August issue, outlines how companies that create products for low-income countries can successfully adapt them into disruptive offerings for developed markets. We also celebrate the three other finalists: “Corporate Governance 2.0,” by Guhan Subramanian (March 2015); “Managing Your Mission-Critical Knowledge,” by Martin Ihrig and Ian MacMillan (January–February 2015); and “Customer Data: Designing for Transparency and Trust,” by Timothy Morey, Theodore Forbath, and Allison Schoop (May 2015). Tackling important topics from the boardroom to the fast-changing world of social media, these pieces reflect the depth and breadth of HBR’s ever-growing archive. If you missed any of these pieces, check them out at HBR.org. If you’re a subscriber, you can drop the articles into your My Library folder so that they’re at your fingertips when you need them. As always, we urge you to share the best thinking from HBR with your team, colleagues, and customers.

The Best of HBR

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