Amy Bernstein

Amy Bernstein is Editor in Chief of Harvard Business Review, where she leads HBR’s editorial teams across the magazine, HBR.org, and HBR Press. The magazine has won numerous editorial awards since she joined, including Folio’s Magazine of the Year for 2019, and was a finalist in 2015 and 2021 for a National Magazine Award for General Excellence. In 2016, Bernstein was named one of Folio’s Top Women in Media.

She also co-hosts HBR’s award-winning Women at Work podcast. Through discussion with experts and listeners, this podcast seeks to help women get where they want to go both personally and professionally.

Bernstein is also the Vice President and Executive Editorial Director for Harvard Business Publishing. In this cross-enterprise role she leads the editorial strategy and content development of the company’s learning and educator assets. She was previously the Editor of HBR’s magazine, which received two National Magazine Award nominations for general excellence during her tenure.

Since 2020, she has also led the editorial strategy and content development for HBP’s Corporate Learning and Higher Education businesses. Prior to joining HBR in 2011, Bernstein was Vice President, Global Thought Leadership at ManpowerGroup, and before that, she served as Executive Editor at strategy+business. She also held senior editorial positions at Business 2.0, The Industry Standard, Brill’s Content, and U.S. News & World Report.

She has served as president of the Journalism and Women Symposium, a national organization that supports the professional empowerment and personal growth of women in journalism and works toward a more accurate portrayal of the whole society. And she served as chair of the Editorial Advisory Board of the San Francisco Bay Citizen, a nonprofit, nonpartisan, member-supported news organization dedicated to promoting innovation in journalism and catalyzing citizen engagement with the news. She is a graduate of Yale College.