Random House to Distribute Harvard Business School Press

Posted on October 21, 1997

Random House Client Distribution Services, a division of Random House Inc., has entered into an agreement with Harvard Business School Press, publisher of choice for the world's leading business and management authors, to distribute its complete list of titles to the U.S. book trade.

As of February 1, 1998, Harvard Business School Press will be represented by the sales force of the Ballantine Publishing Group, which is also a division of Random House Inc. Harvard Business School Press currently publishes approximately 40 frontlist hardcover titles per year and has a backlist of 200 titles.

Harvard Business School Press, a division of Harvard Business School Publishing, was established in 1984 and is widely recognized as the source of some of the most influential business books of the last decade. Forthcoming publications from Harvard Business School Press include books by Michael Porter, Harvard Business School professor and bestselling author; Kenichi Ohmae, former Managing Director of McKinsey & Company Worldwide; John Seely Brown, Chief Scientist at Xerox and Director of its Palo Alto Research Center; and Benjamin Zander, conductor of the Boston Philharmonic Orchestra.