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.
Leadership
Business/Entrepreneurship
Entrepreneurship
Learning
Teaching
Business
Marketing
Management
- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 268
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
The Delicious History of Hershey Chocolate
Have you ever wondered how Hershey chocolate came to be so popular? Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn discusses the life and vision of Milton Hershey, the entrepreneur and philanthropist …
00:25:56 |
Wed 13 Feb 2019
How Wegmans Became a Leader in Improving Food Safety
Harvard Business School professor Ray Goldberg discusses how Wegmans CEO faced a food safety issue and then helped the industry determine how it could become more proactive in the future.
00:16:43 |
Tue 29 Jan 2019
Can Miguel McKelvey Build the “Culture Operating System” at WeWork?
How deeply does the culture of a startup matter? Can it be shaped? Harvard Business School professor Jeffrey Rayport discusses WeWork cofounder Miguel McKelvey’s innovative role in building a company…
00:26:11 |
Wed 09 Jan 2019
Using Fintech to Disrupt Eastern Bank from Within
Was Eastern Labs a huge success or an expensive mistake? Eastern Bank CEO Bob Rivers innovates from within by partnering with fintech entrepreneur Dan O’Malley to launch a completely automated small …
00:18:22 |
Tue 18 Dec 2018
Honda Created a Civic for Very Light Jets: How High Will it Fly?
After thirty years of research and development, the HondaJet is now the top selling jet in the very light jet segment of the market. Harvard Business School professor Gary Pisano discusses how Honda …
00:21:56 |
Wed 05 Dec 2018
Building a Nonprofit Marketplace System to Feed America
Feeding America is the third largest nonprofit in America, managing a network of more than 200 food banks nationwide. Harvard Business School professor Scott Duke Kominers and University of Chicago p…
00:25:03 |
Mon 19 Nov 2018
Could Big Data Replace the Creative Director at the Gap?
Is it time to throw out the creative director and rely on big data to predict what consumers want to wear next? Harvard Business School professor Ayelet Israeli discusses how Gap CEO Art Peck conside…
00:18:32 |
Wed 07 Nov 2018
Vodafone’s Innovative Approach to Advanced Technologies
Harvard Business School professor Bill Kerr discusses how Vodafone, one of the largest companies in the telecommunications space, incorporated technological advancements like big data, automation, an…
00:23:21 |
Wed 24 Oct 2018
Baseball’s Billy Beane Shows Companies the Power of Data
Oakland Athletics General Manager Billy Beane brought a data driven and unconventional approach to winning baseball games. By setting strategy and articulating the metric to evaluate and acquire the …
00:16:45 |
Wed 10 Oct 2018
Did Entrepreneur Ernesto Tornquist Help or Hurt Argentina?
Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones examines the career of Ernesto Tornquist, a cosmopolitan financier considered to be the most significant entrepreneur in Argentina at the end of the 1…
00:22:55 |
Wed 19 Sep 2018
Should U.S. Companies Still Care About the Paris Climate Change Agreement?
American President Donald Trump pulled out of the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change just over a year ago. What does that mean for the role of United States companies and business leaders in conf…
00:18:39 |
Wed 05 Sep 2018
Two Million Fake Accounts: Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo
Coming out of the financial crisis, Wells Fargo was one of the world’s largest and most successful banks, viewed as a role model in how to manage in times of crisis. The news of its sales misconduct …
00:24:16 |
Fri 17 Aug 2018
The Transformation of Microsoft
In early 2015, Amy Hood, CFO of Microsoft, and the rest of the senior leadership team faced a set of fundamental choices. The firm had opportunities to serve customers in ways that would be associate…
00:18:05 |
Tue 10 Jul 2018
LA Philharmonic Shows the American Symphony Orchestra Isn’t Dead Yet
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra faced real challenges, as all U.S. orchestras did: an aging subscriber base, disinterest from younger audiences, and development of a pipeline of donors for the…
00:22:27 |
Wed 27 Jun 2018
How Chase Sapphire Made Credit Cool for Millennials
The Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card was one of the hottest product launches in 2016 enthusiastically received by millennial consumers, a group that had previously eluded JPMorgan Chase and its com…
00:19:15 |
Wed 13 Jun 2018
Careem: Riding the First Unicorn in the Middle East
Ride-hailing service Careem, the “Uber of the Middle East,” experienced expansion so dramatic that it monitored its growth target every 15 minutes. Was this a fabled startup unicorn? But doubling the…
00:18:19 |
Tue 29 May 2018
Candy Crush was a Blockbuster; Can King Digital Capitalize?
Riccardo Zacconi was the co-founder and CEO of King Digital Entertainment, the video game company that had quickly established itself as the world’s leading maker of casual games for mobile devices a…
00:18:13 |
Wed 09 May 2018
Why JPMorgan Chase is Investing Millions in Detroit
JPMorgan Chase is working with local economic- and workforce-development organizations, small businesses, philanthropies, and the mayor. The goal? To put in place a series of investments to help turn…
00:16:45 |
Wed 25 Apr 2018
How a Coal Polluter Became a Renewable Energy Leader
Enel, Italy’s state-owned power company, was one of Europe’s largest coal users and polluters. Now it is recognized as a leader in renewable energy services. How did it engineer that monumental chang…
00:19:15 |
Tue 03 Apr 2018
Trump’s Populism: What Business Leaders Need to Understand
In the 2016 United States presidential election, candidates from both major political parties used anti-establishment messaging to appeal to Americans, a theme that had been on the sidelines of U.S. …
00:16:47 |
Wed 21 Mar 2018
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