Cold Call
Cold Call distills Harvard Business School's legendary case studies into podcast form. Hosted by Brian Kenny, the podcast airs every two weeks and features Harvard Business School faculty discussing cases they've written and the lessons they impart.
Entrepreneurship
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Business
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 268
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Partnerships Power Highland Electric’s Expanding Fleet of School Buses
How do you scale innovation in a system where critical pieces are out of your control? That is the challenge Highland Electric Fleets faced as it worked to replace diesel school buses with electric v…
00:31:02 |
Tue 02 Sep 2025
Atlassian Anchors Remote Flexibility in Structured Daily Practices
Atlassian promised employees they could work from anywhere, permanently. By 2024, its data-driven routines and workplace experiments were shaping both its culture and its products, turning the compan…
00:34:13 |
Tue 19 Aug 2025
Disrupting the Freezer Aisle: Dr. Bombay Ice Cream
When Happi Co. CEO Sam Rockwell partnered with Snoop Dogg and his son, Cordell Broadus, to launch Dr. Bombay Ice Cream, the team set out to disrupt a stagnant market with bold flavors and culturally …
00:34:03 |
Tue 05 Aug 2025
Shake Shack’s Digital Playbook: More Tech, Same Hospitality?
Shake Shack began in 2001 as a single hot dog cart in New York City and grew into a global fast-casual chain known for quality ingredients and a strong hospitality ethos. In 2024, following a rapid d…
00:28:58 |
Tue 22 Jul 2025
At Booking.com, Innovation Means Constant Failure (Summer Repeat)
During a busy travel season, digital travel platform Booking.com tried a risky experiment that meant changing the site’s landing page. Then CEO Gillian Tans made the decision to lean into the company…
00:26:41 |
Tue 08 Jul 2025
Ensuring Boston Ballet Stays Relevant
Ming Min Hui, executive director of Boston Ballet, is unique in her field. As a young, Asian American woman with a HBS MBA and a background in finance, she focuses on ensuring the ballet company stay…
00:30:59 |
Tue 24 Jun 2025
How Bill Wilson Cofounded Alcoholics Anonymous and Created a Lasting Social Movement
Bill Wilson was an incredibly entrepreneurial young man with tremendous potential. He was also a drunk, until an epiphany made him sober. With his personal drive and fellowship with former drinking b…
00:23:34 |
Tue 10 Jun 2025
How Keurig Brewed a Return to Growth
Keurig Green Mountain (KGM) invented a category and became a household name in at-home coffee brewing in North America. But by the early 2010s, the public company suffered a series of product misstep…
00:23:01 |
Tue 27 May 2025
Mattel’s Barbie Playbook: Replicating Success Across the Company’s Portfolio
The 2023 movie Barbie and its accompanying marketing blitz reinstated a celebrated icon at the forefront of cultural conversation. This sudden goodwill stood in contrast to decades of criticism of th…
00:30:47 |
Tue 13 May 2025
How Duolingo Aims to Diversify Beyond Language Learning
Launched in 2011, Duolingo grew into the most downloaded education app in the world. Its gamified approach to language learning and use of adaptive AI technology helped it reach 100 million monthly a…
00:34:53 |
Tue 29 Apr 2025
The Nuqul Group Works to Preserve Its Founder’s Legacy
In 1952, Palenstinian refugee Elia Nuqul started a trading business in Jordan. Nuqul Group subsequently grew into one of the country’s largest family businesses. Its flagship company, Fine Hygienic H…
00:29:56 |
Tue 15 Apr 2025
Calyx Global: Improving the Quality of Carbon Credits
In 2021, Donna Lee and Duncan van Bergen founded Calyx Global to improve the quality of carbon credits sold in the voluntary carbon market. Organizations buy those credits for their decarbonization e…
00:39:15 |
Tue 01 Apr 2025
How Lanco Medical Group Fosters Workforce Happiness to Motivate Employees and Grow Fast
How important is it to maintain a happy workforce? With this question in mind, Lanco Medical Group, a small but fast-growing pharmaceutical distributor serving Latin America, designed their employee …
00:26:42 |
Tue 18 Mar 2025
The Evolution of Luxury Brand Porsche
Porsche has reigned as a leading sports and luxury car company for nearly 80 years. Central to the German automaker’s growth strategy is creating great products, such as the legendary 911 Carrera spo…
00:27:38 |
Tue 04 Mar 2025
Should Google Stay in the Cloud Gaming Business?
Google formally announced the innovative video game service Stadia at the 2019 Game Developer Conference. The company invested substantial resources to support the demanding requirements of cloud gam…
00:34:39 |
Tue 18 Feb 2025
Celebrating 10 Years of Cold Call
Cold Call is celebrating its tenth year of distilling Harvard Business School case studies. To kick off the 2025 anniversary, the podcast’s production team has curated three favorite episodes from 20…
00:12:38 |
Tue 04 Feb 2025
Managing the Future of Work: Microsoft’s AI Perspective
Artificial intelligence is changing how we live and work in ways large and small. And it's why today we’re sharing an episode of Harvard Business School’s Managing the Future of Work podcast. In the …
00:43:28 |
Tue 21 Jan 2025
The Leadership Style of Football Legend Deion Sanders
In 2022, Deion Sanders, known as “Coach Prime,” was hired as head coach of the University of Colorado football team, which had only one winning season in the previous 15 years. Many observers were ex…
00:30:23 |
Tue 07 Jan 2025
Scaling a Family Business While Maintaining Founding Values
One of the oldest Black-owned security firms in the U.S., Johnson Security Bureau credits much of its success to its status as a woman-owned, minority-owned family firm. To grow the business, however…
00:31:06 |
Tue 24 Dec 2024
A New Model for Funding Healthcare Innovation
Entrepreneur Duke Rohlen creates California-based Ajax Health under a new model. Partnering with private equity firms, Rohlen considers a $1 billion bid to buy medical device maker Cordis. If Ajax’s …
00:38:32 |
Tue 10 Dec 2024
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