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
How Could Harvard Decarbonize Its Supply Chain?
Harvard University aims to be fossil-fuel neutral by 2026 and totally free of fossil fuels by 2050. As part of this goal, the university is trying to decarbonize its supply chain and considers replac…
00:26:16 |
Tue 27 Feb 2024
Apple’s Dilemma: Balancing Privacy and Safety Responsibilities
In 2015, Apple debuted the iPhone 6S, which employed a default encryption system preventing both Apple and government authorities from accessing data stored on the device. But since then, global gove…
00:27:45 |
Tue 13 Feb 2024
Can Second-Generation Ethanol Production Help Decarbonize the World?
Ethanol had already transformed Brazil, where flex-fuel vehicles dominated the streets. Raízen, a bioenergy company headquartered in São Paulo, sought to prove that second-generation ethanol (E2G) co…
00:26:38 |
Tue 30 Jan 2024
How SolarWinds Responded to the 2020 SUNBURST Cyberattack
In December of 2020, SolarWinds learned that they had fallen victim to a widespread malware supply chain attack. This attack granted hackers access to thousands of it customers’ data, including milit…
00:28:39 |
Tue 16 Jan 2024
Should Businesses Take a Stand on Societal Issues?
Should businesses take a stand for or against particular societal issues? And how should leaders determine when and how to engage on these sensitive matters?
Harvard Business School senior lecturer …
00:23:01 |
Tue 02 Jan 2024
Can Sustainability Drive Innovation at Ferrari?
When Ferrari, the Italian luxury sports car manufacturer, committed to achieving carbon neutrality and to electrifying a large part of its car fleet, investors and employees applauded the new strateg…
00:31:03 |
Tue 12 Dec 2023
What Founders Get Wrong about Sales and Marketing
Which sales candidate is a startup’s ideal first hire? What marketing channels are best to invest in? How aggressively should an executive team align sales with customer success? Harvard Business Sch…
00:19:29 |
Tue 05 Dec 2023
Tommy Hilfiger’s Adaptive Clothing Line: Making Fashion Inclusive
In 2017, Tommy Hilfiger launched its adaptive fashion line to provide fashion apparel that aims to make dressing easier. By 2020, it was still a relatively unknown line in the U.S. and the Tommy Hilf…
00:19:01 |
Tue 28 Nov 2023
Building a More Equitable Culture at Delta Air Lines
In December 2020, Delta Air Lines CEO Ed Bastian and his leadership team were reviewing the decision to join the OneTen coalition, where he and 36 other CEOs committed to recruiting, hiring, training…
00:29:05 |
Tue 21 Nov 2023
How Should Meta Be Governed for the Good of Society?
Julie Owono is executive director of Internet Sans Frontières and a member of the Oversight Board, an outside entity with the authority to make binding decisions on tricky moderation questions for Me…
00:24:59 |
Tue 07 Nov 2023
How the United States Air Force Accelerated AI Adoption
In August 2022, the Pentagon tasked Victor Lopez, then a captain in the U.S. Air Force, with launching a new Air Force innovation unit that leveraged commercial developers and military talent to acqu…
00:27:18 |
Tue 24 Oct 2023
Scaling Two Businesses Against the Odds: Wendy Estrella’s Founder Journey
Entrepreneur Wendy Estrella is attempting to simultaneously scale her law practice, as well as her property management and development company. What strategy will benefit both businesses, and is ther…
00:25:12 |
Tue 10 Oct 2023
The PGA Tour and LIV Golf Merger: Competition Vs. Cooperation
On June 9, 2022, the first LIV Golf event teed off outside of London. The new tour offered players larger prizes, more flexibility, and ambitions to attract new fans to the sport. Immediately followi…
00:25:43 |
Tue 26 Sep 2023
Can Remote Surgeries Digitally Transform Operating Rooms?
Launched in 2016, Proximie was a platform that enabled clinicians, proctors, and medical device company personnel to be virtually present in operating rooms, where they would use mixed reality and di…
00:19:06 |
Tue 12 Sep 2023
As Social Networks Get More Competitive, Which Ones Will Survive?
In early 2023, the entertainment app TikTok reached close to one billion users globally, placing it fourth behind the leading social networks: Facebook, YouTube, and Instagram. Can all four of these …
00:32:44 |
Tue 29 Aug 2023
Ryan Serhant: How to Manage Your Time for Happiness
In 2020, just a few months after the US began to shut down in order to prevent the spread of the Covid-19 virus, Serhant had time to reflect on his career as a real estate broker in New York City. He…
00:28:13 |
Tue 15 Aug 2023
Can Business Transform Primary Health Care Across Africa?
mPharma, headquartered in Ghana, is trying to create the largest pan-African health care company. Their mission is to provide primary care and a reliable and fairly priced supply of drugs in the nine…
00:31:57 |
Tue 01 Aug 2023
Diversity and Inclusion at Mars Petcare: Translating Awareness into Action
In 2020, the Mars Petcare leadership team found themselves facing critically important inclusion and diversity issues. Unprecedented protests for racial justice in the U.S. and across the globe gener…
00:34:18 |
Tue 18 Jul 2023
How Unilever Is Preparing for the Future of Work
Launched in 2016, Unilever’s Future of Work initiative aimed to accelerate the speed of change throughout the organization and prepare its workforce for a digitalized and highly automated era. But de…
00:29:23 |
Tue 04 Jul 2023
Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover: Lessons in Strategic Change
In late October 2022, Elon Musk officially took Twitter private and became the company’s majority shareholder. He needed to take decisive steps to succeed against the major opposition to his leadersh…
00:31:19 |
Tue 20 Jun 2023
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