If you want to step away from the lightweight magazines then there are a number of publications which are aimed at the more business minded. Probably the archetypal magazine is the Harvard Business Review which is essential reading for anyone involved in the consultancy business or with an interest in management. It is a well respected business publication where articles look at the pressing factors influencing business and corporate culture both in the US and UK. The fact that it is a monthly magazine keeps the content very fresh and relevant. Most businesses worth their salt have a subscription to the Harvard Business Review which also provides an online version for those remote workers who don’t get into the office to read the hard copy.
For more of a finance focus you might turn to the Wall Street Journal or the Financial Times both of which are very well respected publications providing news and opinion of the state of the world economy. For the American market then Fortune and Forbes are probably leaders in their own areas of business press with a focus on management and business practice.
For specific areas like brand and marketing there are a number of speciality magazines offering a forum for industry debate and opinion and also a lively employment section in directed at the specialist fields. Campaign is a weekly publication that claims to be the leading weekly magazine for the advertising, media and communications industry. It brings you the breaking campaigns, news, jobs, gossip and creative work each week, with dedicated pages of media news, comment and analysis in every issue. Due to the reasonably narrow readership the content is formulated to be very specific and appropriate to the niche market in particular.
Some magazines focus on a level of business management and Director is the UK’s leading monthly management magazine aimed at entrepreneurs and senior decision-makers. Every month it includes articles from people at the top to find out what has worked for them and shares it with their readership. Director provides information, advice and inspiration, with a strong emphasis on the UK’s growing businesses so it feels much closer to home for UK businesses than the US centric business press.