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HBR articles used to be highly informative, thoughtful, and well-researched. They were solid essays, sometimes more valuable than the books written by the same articles in parallel. There are still some of these articles in the magazines, but whether it’s the raising of my standards of knowledge testing or whether my perception is accurate, much of the content is almost completely irrelevant. This app is worse than other media of HBR. Its search function does not yield expected results, and it is not an effective use of time to try to gain anything from this. I have given this app second chances over the years when I am desperate for a piece of management research that is hard to find. I am leaving this review because I’ve decided to walk away permanently unless there is some major overhaul to the entire HBR network that brings them back to usefulness beyond pop culture.

I have been a subscriber for many years and was an early adopter of their early iPad app. I would expect by now they’d have the bugs worked out, but apparently not. The mobile app can’t seem to sync with the HBR site. The site shows I clearly have an active subscription while the iPad app says it is expired. Contacting the vendor gets you no where - they just send you back to the HBR site for help. I’ve tried the HBR chat and the best they can do is have you reinstall the app. For the price charged for a digital subscription this is beyond ridiculous.

Have had a digital subscription for a long time, and recently received an email from HBR to try the mobile app. After downloading, I was not able to login. Error message indicated my subscription expired. Got online and asked live chat for help. Response was hard to understand, but basically indicated that it wouldn’t work and I should login on my mobile devices using a browser instead of the app. Really???