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  "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/compare/hbr-vs-mckinsey-insights/",
  "summary": "Academic business strategy vs consulting-firm POV — the two canonical frameworks behind every MBA citation.",
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    "name": "Harvard Business Review",
    "domain": "hbr.org",
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        "grade": "B",
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          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 86 + Modern Reference 78 + Velocity 76."
          }
        ]
      },
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        "value": 86,
        "grade": "A",
        "rationale": "Editor-reviewed by HBP staff + named academic + practitioner authors; corrections public.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "HBP editorial",
            "detail": "Harvard Business Publishing editorial process."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 78,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Hard paywall on most articles; LLM corpus partial; metered access.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Subscription gate",
            "detail": "Most articles paywalled with metered free access."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 76,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Cited within business + management discourse; weekly cadence.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Business-school standard",
            "detail": "Default citation in MBA + executive-education."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  },
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    "slug": "mckinsey-insights",
    "name": "McKinsey Insights",
    "domain": "mckinsey.com",
    "canonical": "https://sourcescore.org/source/mckinsey-insights/",
    "api": "https://sourcescore.org/api/source/mckinsey-insights.json",
    "scores": {
      "index": {
        "value": 75,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "B — heavily cited in business press; client-relationship conflicts limit Discipline ceiling.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Composite",
            "detail": "Discipline 70 + Modern Reference 75 + Velocity 80."
          }
        ]
      },
      "discipline": {
        "value": 70,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Methodology often disclosed; client-conflict structural limit; some research challenged for selection bias.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Conflict disclosure",
            "detail": "Authors named; client-relationship caveats often absent in cross-cited summaries."
          }
        ]
      },
      "modernReference": {
        "value": 75,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Free-to-read insights site; schema OK; structured author + topic taxonomy.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Open-access content",
            "detail": "Most insights articles free; PDFs downloadable."
          }
        ]
      },
      "velocity": {
        "value": 80,
        "grade": "B",
        "rationale": "Default citation for cross-industry trend analysis in business press.",
        "signals": [
          {
            "label": "Business-press default",
            "detail": "Frequently cited by Bloomberg, FT, WSJ, Harvard Business Review."
          }
        ]
      }
    }
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    "discipline": "hbr",
    "modernReference": "hbr",
    "velocity": "mckinsey-insights"
  },
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    "data": "Underlying public-source data credited to original publishers"
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