Amy Bernstein

Amy Bernstein is the editor of Harvard Business Review, where she oversees the magazine and its team of editors. 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 is the cohost of 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.

Before joining HBR in 2011, she was Vice President, Global Thought Leadership, at ManpowerGroup, the global employment-services company. There she oversaw Manpower’s signature Employment Outlook Survey and led development of white papers on emerging trends in the world of work. She also launched MyPath, the industry's first career-management website for professionals, and led the redesign of the company’s network of websites.

Prior to her stint at ManpowerGroup, Bernstein held senior editorial positions on both the print and digital sides at a variety of magazines including strategy+business, Business 2.0, The Industry Standard, Brill's Content, and U.S. News & World Report. She has developed and edited stories across the full range of business, tech, and management topics, contributing to several Loeb and National Magazine Award winners. Her roles have included leadership of both print and digital products. And she has cohosted HBR’s Women at Work podcast since its inception 2018. She began her career at CBS News as a researcher.

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.