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
Making Health Insurance Consumers Actually Like
Health insurance that consumers like? Doesn’t sound possible, but South African company Vitality is doing just that. By focusing on consumer-driven health insurance ideas like paying customers to tak…
00:15:36 |
Tue 18 Apr 2017
Why German Businesses Support, Train, and Hire Syrian Refugees
Germany took in a million Syrian refugees in 2015, buoyed by the knowledge that these people could contribute strongly to the country’s economy. But has it worked out as successfully as hoped? Harvar…
00:16:24 |
Tue 04 Apr 2017
Cost-cutting Leads to Turbulence in the Airline Industry
Is it possible to retain brand value after cutting costs and services dramatically just to stay alive? The airline industry has struggled with this question for decades in the face of economic downtu…
00:15:38 |
Tue 21 Mar 2017
IDEO Is Changing the Way Managers Think About Thinking
IDEO’s human-centered design thinking is a systematic process used to help create new products and services. And, the best part? They are open about the process and how to adopt it. Harvard Business …
00:18:02 |
Fri 03 Mar 2017
Black Business Leaders Series: Franklin Leonard, “Black List” Mastermind
Using crowdsourcing to develop an annual list of Hollywood’s hottest unproduced screenplays, Harvard graduate Franklin Leonard took the negative term “black list” and turned it into a coveted place t…
00:22:34 |
Wed 22 Feb 2017
Black Business Leaders Series: A Remarkable Legacy of Firsts, Maggie Lena Walker
Growing up in the heart of the Confederacy, Maggie Lena Walker started work as a laundress at age nine. At the urging of her mother and mentors, she turned to education, and used it to propel her lif…
00:27:11 |
Wed 15 Feb 2017
Black Business Leaders Series: Putting Diversity to Work
In theory, most companies would love to diversify their workforce. In practice, hiring specifically to increase diversity can cause a variety of cultural problems within an organization. Harvard Busi…
00:19:06 |
Thu 26 Jan 2017
Black Business Leaders Series: The Entrepreneurship Behind Ebony Magazine
For more than seven decades, Ebony Magazine has chronicled the most important African-American issues, personalities, and interests of its time, including operating essentially as the journal of reco…
00:17:51 |
Thu 26 Jan 2017
Can Wynton Marsalis and Lincoln Center Save Jazz Music?
Research says that people imprint on music in their dating years, and carry those tastes with them through the rest of their lives. Lately, this has spelled trouble for jazz music, which is failing t…
00:15:46 |
Wed 18 Jan 2017
The American Food Paradox: Growing Obese and Going Hungry
One third of the U.S. population is obese, even as 50 million Americans often struggle to find enough to eat. And all that in a country where 40% of the food made and purchased each year is thrown aw…
00:21:23 |
Tue 03 Jan 2017
Target’s Expensive Cybersecurity Mistake
There is a joke in the cybersecurity community that there are two kinds of companies: those that know they’ve been hacked, and those that haven’t found out yet. The Target Corporation learned this th…
00:23:04 |
Tue 20 Dec 2016
How Wayfair Built a Furniture Brand from Scratch
Wayfair has been around since the early days of ecommerce. But where it now exists as a single, popular brand, it was once an unaffiliated collection of 240 websites selling very different things. Ha…
00:22:27 |
Wed 07 Dec 2016
Digital Change: Lessons from the Newspaper Industry
On the internet, content may be king, but connecting users is the key to building an empire. The Norwegian media giant Schibsted learned this lesson the hard way, and then used it to thrive in an onl…
00:22:51 |
Fri 18 Nov 2016
Building Affordable Health Care in Paradise
By some accounts, only 5-6% of people around the world get the cardiac treatment they need to survive. The rest perish. This statistic highlights the stark need for affordable, quality health care th…
00:14:20 |
Mon 14 Nov 2016
Managing in the Real World: How to Make Gray-Area Decisions
An unfortunate but necessary part of a manager’s job is having to let underperforming employees go. Knowing when and how to take that step with the company’s, the employee’s, and your own best intere…
00:13:35 |
Thu 03 Nov 2016
The Crash and the Fix of HealthCare.gov
The Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare for short, had three goals: make health insurance available, required, and affordable for everyone. There was just one problem -- the launch of the HealthCare.go…
00:20:04 |
Tue 01 Nov 2016
Oktoberfest: Making Money Off of Tradition
Oktoberfest began as a raucous wedding celebration in Germany more than 200 years ago and has since grown into a worldwide phenomenon. Munich, alone, hosts some 6.4 million guests (who consume almost…
00:15:04 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
Innovation Under Constraint: Constructing a Turnaround at Lego
Lego has been helping children piece together dreams and build their imaginations for decades, and has become one of the world’s most popular toys and most powerful brands in the process. But the com…
00:15:15 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
Netflix Wins Big by Betting on “House of Cards”
Before “House of Cards” was an internationally-renowned and critically acclaimed hit series, it was a total shot in the dark. Luckily for the small film studio behind it, Netflix saw it as a shot wor…
00:13:14 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
Behind Apple’s Tax Situation, an Unprecedented Financial Policy
Most people know Apple as one of the richest and most successful companies in the world, but it wasn’t always that way. In 1997, the company suffered a near-death experience that caused it to complet…
00:14:18 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are the property of HBR Presents / Brian Kenny ([email protected]). This content is not affiliated with or endorsed by eachpod.com.