Harvard Biz Review hires new creative director

John Korpics has been named creative director of Harvard Business Review.

He replaces James de Vries, who moved back to his native Australia and is now with the Sydney-based strategy consultancy 2nd Road.

Korpics has served as creative director for many of the country’s most celebrated publications: Fortune, InStyle, Esquire, Entertainment Weekly, GQ, Premiere, and ESPN. For the past two years, he has served as marketing and communications director at Harlem Village Academies.

“John is one of the most talented and experienced designers in the business,” said HBR editor in chief Adi Ignatius in a statement. “His extensive chops in both print and digital will help us as we continue to innovate with new platforms and ways to deliver ideas.”

He holds a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from Carnegie Mellon University.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.