[8] Stephen B. Shepard served as editor-in-chief from 1984 until 2005 when he was chosen to be the founding dean of the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism.

[10] Businessweek began publishing its annual rankings of United States business school MBA programs in 1988.

[15] News reports published in 2019 suggest McGraw-Hill received the high end of the speculated price, at $5 million, along with the assumption of debt.

[20] Adler resigned as editor-in-chief and was replaced by Josh Tyrangiel, who had been deputy managing editor of Time magazine.

[22] Megan Murphy served as editor from November 2016;[22] until she stepped down from the role in January 2018 and Joel Weber was appointed by the editorial board in her place.

[25] On October 4, 2018, Bloomberg Businessweek published "The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies", an article by Jordan Robertson and Michael Riley which claimed that China had hacked dozens of technology corporations including Amazon and Apple by placing an extra integrated circuit on a Supermicro server motherboard during manufacturing.

[26] Pingwest, a media company founded in Silicon Valley and based in Beijing, identified the chip mentioned in the article as a balun.

Pingwest pointed out that its size made it impossible to implement any form of attack; it did not have the storage space required to store commands that would allow a hacker to infiltrate the hardware.

[36][37][38] Bloomberg Businessweek launched an iPad version of the magazine using Apple's subscription billing service in 2011.

[46] In 2016, the Online Journalism Awards highlighted Bloomberg Businessweek's explanatory reporting work on “What Is Code?”[47][48] Notable present and former employees of the magazine include:[49]