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HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $294 to it, the largest being THE PLANETARY TRUST ($294). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$314M
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$294
Net assets
$51M
0/1 repeat funders
01What it does

What Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation does

Mission

Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation's ("hbsp") primary exempt purpose is to support the educational mission and faculty research of harvard business school, thereby extending its reach through publishing activities.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Programs

  1. 4a - management education to individual managers we present rigorous research, informed commentary, intelligent debate, and practical guides - all offered across multiple platforms to business leaders, academics, and students around the world. The harvard business review group ("hbr") strives to be the world's most trusted source of relevant ideas about leadership, management, and strategy. The content developed by the hbr group, harvard business review magazine, books and online discussions are used in organizations and classrooms to disseminate leading edge management ideas. 4b - management education in support of higher education the higher education group extends the reach of the harvard business school ("hbs") - its research, teaching materials, and pedagogical approach - to educational institutions around the world. We provide these institutions with the same materials used in the hbs classroom and offer numerous seminars to train faculty worldwide in the pedagogical method, participant centered learning, that is practiced at hbs. In this way, we amplify the impact that hbs has on the world and assist hbs in accomplishing its larger mission. A relatively small number of…

    $57,305,082 spent$79,819,398 earned by the program
    20% of program spending

  2. See Schedule O Management Education in Support of Higher Education

    $77,785,856 spent$101,050,353 earned by the program
    27% of program spending

  3. Not described on the e-filed return.

    $90,081,913 spent$96,164,365 earned by the program
    31% of program spending

  4. Other program services, not described on the e-filed return.

    $67,169,504 spent$13,176,484 earned by the program
    23% of program spending

The 4 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $292,342,355.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($227M) Expenses 100 ($226M) Net assets 100 ($19M)2018 Revenue 109 ($247M) Expenses 108 ($243M) Net assets 118 ($22M)2019 Revenue 117 ($266M) Expenses 116 ($262M) Net assets 156 ($29M)2020 Revenue 118 ($269M) Expenses 116 ($262M) Net assets 192 ($36M)2021 Revenue 123 ($278M) Expenses 120 ($270M) Net assets 249 ($46M)2022 Revenue 136 ($308M) Expenses 134 ($302M) Net assets 280 ($52M)2023 Revenue 140 ($319M) Expenses 143 ($323M) Net assets 258 ($48M)2024 Revenue 140 ($317M) Expenses 140 ($316M) Net assets 261 ($49M)2025 Revenue 138 ($314M) Expenses 138 ($313M) Net assets 274 ($51M)
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Revenue (138)Expenses (138)Net assets (274)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from $162M to $190M (+17%).

$144M
$152M
$162M
$190M
$198M
$217M
$191M
$191M
$195M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

0% of HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (55% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 55 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$826k
’17
$3.4M
’18
$3.9M
’19
$6.4M
’20
$7.9M
’21
$5.6M
’22
−$4.1M
’23
$525k
’24
$718k
’25
3.3
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Board chair

Raffaella Sadun

Chairman of the board

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2021 and FY2022, and between the FY2022 and FY2023 filings.

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Listed242927272629292324
Joined·+8+5+5+2+6+6+6+5
No longer listed·375336124
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'24*
total
funders
1

From the IRS filings of HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside Massachusetts, across 1 state in all.

TX

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION is better cushioned than half of the 42 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve3.3mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 42 arts & culture nonprofits over $100M, FY2025

Government funding HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.0M on record — $2.0M federal, $17k state.

Federal$2.0M
grants $0contracts $2.0M
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Top agencies
  • Department of Defense$1.9M
  • Agency for International Development$22k
  • Department of State$17k
  • Department of Health and Human Services$16k
  • Office of Personnel Management$6k
State$17k
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By state
  • MA$14k
  • DE$3k
  • OK$431

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Massachusetts

Harvard Business School Student Association Inc87%Harvard Management Company Inc85%President and Fellows of Harvard College84%Harvard Law Review Association83%Harvard Business School Association of Boston83%Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation83%Harvard Business School Interactive Inc82%Harvard Student Agencies Inc82%

Nationally

Harvard Business School Student Association Inc87%Harvard Management Company Inc85%President and Fellows of Harvard College84%Harvard Law Review Association83%Harvard Business School Association of Boston83%Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation83%Harvard Business School Club of Greater New York Inc82%Harvard Business School Interactive Inc82%
05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

93% of spending goes to programs.

Program 93%Management 7%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members
33%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

MA

Part of a family of 295 related entities

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Screen this organization

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Questions and answers

Who funds HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION?
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION (Massachusetts) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $294 to it, the largest being THE PLANETARY TRUST ($294). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $294 in grants to HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION.
Who is the largest funder of HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION?
THE PLANETARY TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $294 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Massachusetts. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing