Inventors Digest editor makes his HBR debut

HBrToday marks an auspicious occasion in publishing on two fronts:

After nearly a year in the making, Harvard Business Review launched its newly redesigned Web site.

Harvard Business Review Online editor Eric Hellweg explains:

“The main goal of this redesign is to bring together the two sites we’ve been operating at Harvard Business Publishing into one site under the Harvard Business Review brand. On the new HBR.org you’ll find our thriving network of thought-leader penned blogs alongside articles from the magazine and an archive that stretches back over 50 years.”

Eric and his team are still working out some minor bugs, but the site is rich, immersive, informative, and an improvement from the previous incarnation.

The other bit of related news? HBR.org today posted my piece on what’s really hobbling innovation as it relates to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Harvard Business Review is among the most influential business publications on the planet. To be invited to write for it, particularly on the day it launched its redesigned site, is a humbling honor.

I hope you check out the site and, of course, read my article.

Meanwhile, nice job, Eric. You and your team are doing stellar work.

Mike Drummond, editor, Inventors Digest