Measured channelBusiness & Startups
Harvard Business Review
Across 10 measured videos from Harvard Business Review, the median Gistil Score is 64 out of 100, and 2 of them came out worth watching outright. The median filler share is 37%. In a typical video the value starts at 0:53.
- Videos measured
- 10
- Filler · median
- 37%
- Value starts
- 0:53
Last measured 19 Aug 2026
Start here
The three densest videos we have measured on this channel, each with the minute its value starts.
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01
A Plan Is Not a Strategy
0:009:32- Density
- 74
- Padding
- 22%
- Useful from
- 1:04
A crisp, well-argued case for why business planning isn't strategy, anchored by a genuinely illuminating Southwest Airlines example.
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02
Why You’re Bad at Disagreeing (And How to Fix It)
0:0030:40- Density
- 72
- Padding
- 35%
- Useful from
- 0:35
A substantive, research-grounded HBR interview that gives a real causal model (naive realism) and usable scripts for disagreeing productively — solid but talk-format density limits how…
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03
The Explainer: What is a Business Model?
0:002:05- Density
- 64
- Padding
- 37%
- Useful from
- 0:16
A crisp, well-sourced two-minute explainer that actually earns its title by nailing a genuinely useful distinction.
Questions
Is Harvard Business Review worth watching?
Across the 10 videos we measured, the median Gistil Score is 64 out of 100, and 2 came out worth watching outright. The score measures how much of the runtime carries substance; it is our own measurement, not a YouTube metric.
What are the best Harvard Business Review videos?
The three densest ones we have measured are listed above, each with the minute its value starts — so you can open one at the second it begins to pay off.
How honest are the titles on Harvard Business Review?
Median title honesty across those videos is 85 out of 100 — how closely a title matches what the video actually delivers.
The Gistil Score is our own independent measurement of how much of a video's runtime carries substance. It is not a YouTube metric, not a public rating, and not the video's rating on YouTube. Gistil does not alter, download or cut any part of a video — the videos stay on YouTube and play there. Not affiliated with YouTube or Google.
How this is measured
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