Search Tips
The Basics
Simply type in a few words or phrases and click on the submit button to initiate a search.
The search results are displayed in a tabbed format. Each tab represents a different slice, or facet, of HBS-wide Web content. The "hit count" (number of results) found in each facet is displayed in parentheses next to the label. Click on a tab to see the search results from the corresponding Web content. The three tabs that are available are:
- The HBS Working Knowledge Web Site
- The Faculty and Research Web Site
- Other HBS Web Sites
To easily resubmit your query to other search systems (listed below) use the resubmit box on the right-hand side of the Search results page. Clicking on a resubmit link will display results from that source.
- HBS Publishing
Quick Tips
In general, using more words in your query will result in more precise search results.
All words you use will be included in the search, i.e., only documents in which all words in the query occur will appear in the search results.
Words enclosed within double quotes will be treated as phrases. So a search for "social enterprise" (with quotes included) will return a list of pages in which both those words appear next to each other in that order.
Try to use specific terms that are likely to be found only in the documents you seek.
Search is not case-sensitive, so you'll get the same results whether you search for "Harvard", "harvard", or "harVaRD"
