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.
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- Update frequency
- every 12 days
- Average duration
- 23 minutes
- Episodes
- 268
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
What Building a “Jeopardy!” Robot Taught IBM About Innovation
It’s a good bet that winning a game show isn’t often on the list of top priorities at large companies. So how was it that building a robot to do just that became a prime focus at IBM? Harvard Busines…
00:16:20 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
College represents one of the biggest decisions and investments many consumers will ever make. But can they really trust the rankings available to help them choose? Harvard Business School professor …
00:14:12 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
How Modest Investors Can Still Bet Big
A novel idea: give loyal customers a chance to buy shares in a company they love. That’s the premise behind LOYAL3, which uses the democratizing power of technology to give average investors better a…
00:12:53 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
How to Fix a Broken Global Team
Increasingly, almost every team is a global team in some capacity. This presents a difficult challenge for managers everywhere, and especially for high-potential leaders who want to take their career…
00:13:48 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
Who Makes the Eyes for Driverless Cars?
Though Google has become the U.S. face of the driverless car movement, other global companies have been developing similar technology for more than a decade. Mobileye is one of them, with a $10 billi…
00:12:31 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
Hold Onto Your Complexity: Bringing Multiple Identities to Work
Carla Ann Harris has blazed trails and excelled at institutions like Harvard and Morgan Stanley. But doing so has required her to strike a careful balance between her professional image and her perso…
00:14:24 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
A Better World Through Brewing
Since brewing is a marketing-driven business, finding ways to differentiate a beverage from its competition is crucial. Heineken’s chief marketing officer took a novel approach: take the complicated …
00:08:57 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
Who Owns Space?
Entrepreneurs like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are tapping into their vast personal wealth to make commercial space travel a reality. In the process, they're revitalizing a listless national space progr…
00:15:20 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
The Real Cost of Ignoring Mental Health in the Workplace
The statistics are startling: about one-third of American workers suffer from chronic work stress; $27 billion worth of work days are lost to mental health-related absences each year. Harvard Busines…
00:12:15 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
Walmart: Changing the World for Better or Worse?
Can big companies fix big problems? Are they responsible for doing so? As the third-largest employer in the world, any move Walmart makes reverberates around the globe. Yet despite its many successes…
00:15:10 |
Tue 04 Oct 2016
The Key to Keeping Resolutions? Betting Against Yourself
It’s been a few months since many of us made New Year’s resolutions. Have you stuck with yours? Harvard Business School professor Leslie John studies how to help people change bad habits (and reinfor…
00:12:21 |
Mon 19 Sep 2016
A Map of Economic Renewal Begins in Maine
Maine has had one of the worst state economies in the country the last few years. But something special is happening there of late that could change the face of job creation in the future. Harvard Bu…
00:09:05 |
Mon 19 Sep 2016
The Team Sport of Scaling a Business
For entrepreneurs, size and scale don’t have to come at the cost of agility. Fabricio Bloisi, a 21-year-old Brazilian college graduate, proved that with his company Movile. Harvard Business School pr…
00:09:53 |
Mon 19 Sep 2016
For the Hotel Business, it’s TripAdvisor or Bust
Research says that 85% of people will make a purchase after reading online reviews about a product or service. This has had huge implications for the hotel industry and helps explain why TripAdvisor,…
00:13:08 |
Mon 19 Sep 2016
The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black Female Entrepreneurs
Though not everyone may know her name, Madam C.J. Walker helped invent what have become staples of our modern country and economy: national sales forces, corporate social responsibility, and, yes, ev…
00:17:09 |
Mon 19 Sep 2016
The Space Shuttle Columbia’s Final Mission
No organization wants to fail. But even for the best and the brightest, failure is inevitable, and occasionally that failure can be catastrophic. Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson descr…
00:12:40 |
Mon 19 Sep 2016
The Power of Presence at the Podium
Running for office requires a lot of public speaking. But often, it’s what candidates aren’t saying that can make or break their campaigns. Take the case of Dan Silver, an experienced congressional c…
00:12:24 |
Mon 19 Sep 2016
A Microchip in Your Medicine
Digitally-enabled prescription medication may sound futuristic. Thanks to Proteus, the future is now. The company has developed the technology to place microchips inside prescription pills, allowing …
00:11:35 |
Mon 19 Sep 2016
Designing a Great Community
How do you manage a community, grow it, and sustain it? Threadless has done it since 2007 by crowdsourcing its T-shirt designs and selling the best ones. Harvard Business School professor Karim Lakha…
00:11:32 |
Mon 19 Sep 2016
Planning Change: Lessons from the World of Retail
Ron Johnson's career path has featured stops at some of the world’s largest and most innovative retailers, including Target, Apple, and J.C. Penney. At each stop, Johnson learned invaluable lessons, …
00:12:03 |
Mon 19 Sep 2016
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