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
Lessons from IBM in Nazi Germany
Harvard Business School professor Geoff Jones discusses his case, “Thomas J. Watson, IBM and Nazi Germany,” which explores the options and responsibilities of multinationals with investments in polit…
00:22:33 |
Tue 19 Nov 2019
Can the Robin Hood Army Grow with Zero Financial Resources?
In 2014, Neel Ghose (MBA 2019) created the Robin Hood Army, an entirely volunteer-based organization working to get surplus food to hungry people. Just four years later, they had served more than 9 m…
00:34:43 |
Tue 05 Nov 2019
Goldman Sachs’ $500 Million Bet on Small Businesses
Launched in the midst of the financial crisis, Goldman Sachs' “10,000 Small Businesses” program provided business education and access to capital for small businesses across the United States. The co…
00:21:36 |
Tue 15 Oct 2019
Can Gimlet Turn a Podcast Network Into a Disruptive Platform?
Harvard Business School professors John Deighton and Jeffrey Rayport discuss how two former public radio producers launch the Gimlet Media podcast network, entering the last frontier of digital media…
00:26:24 |
Tue 01 Oct 2019
How a New Leader Broke Through a Culture of Accuse, Blame, and Criticize
Children’s Hospital & Clinics COO Julie Morath sets out to change the culture there by instituting a policy of blameless reporting, which encourages employees to report anything that goes wrong or se…
00:22:05 |
Tue 17 Sep 2019
At Booking.com, Innovation Means Constant Failure
Harvard Business School professor Stefan Thomke discusses how past experience and intuition can be misleading when attempting to launch an innovative new product, service, business model, or process.…
00:25:51 |
Tue 03 Sep 2019
Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World?
Harvard Business School professors Rebecca Henderson and George Serafeim discuss the impact investing efforts of Hiro Mizuno, CIO of GPIF, Japan’s government pension fund. He says that improving corp…
00:29:31 |
Tue 20 Aug 2019
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
Much of the advertising purchased during the Super Bowl is about selling corporate brands rather than products. Harvard Business School professor Shelle Santana discusses her case, "Super Bowl Storyt…
00:33:26 |
Tue 06 Aug 2019
JUUL: Leading the Vaping Revolution
In his case, “JUUL and the Vaping Revolution,” Harvard Business School professor Mike Toffel discusses the controversy surrounding the exponential growth of JUUL vaping products in 2018, in particula…
00:23:35 |
Tue 16 Jul 2019
The Controversial History of United Fruit
Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones discusses the overthrow of President Jacobo Arbenz of Guatemala in 1954 in a U.S.-backed coup in support of the United Fruit Co. (now Chiquita Brands …
00:20:06 |
Tue 02 Jul 2019
In the Platform Economy, Upwork Searches for Better Matches in the Cloud
Stephane Kasriel, the CEO of Upwork, the leading platform for freelance labor, considers different pricing solutions and ways to improve the matching process as part of a business model redesign.
00:48:00 |
Tue 25 Jun 2019
Can Khan Academy Scale to Educate Anyone, Anywhere?
Khan Academy is an online global education nonprofit launched by Sal Khan with the audacious mission to “provide a free world-class education for anyone, anywhere.” Harvard Business School professor …
00:29:22 |
Tue 18 Jun 2019
Israel Turns 70: Does It Need a Rebrand?
Israel turned 70 years old in May of 2018, but its brand image internationally was less than ideal. Market research revealed that many people associated Israel primarily with military conflict. Harva…
00:28:31 |
Tue 04 Jun 2019
If the Key to Business Success Is Focus, Why Does Amazon Work?
Harvard Business School professor Sunil Gupta explores the infiltration of Amazon into dozens of industries including web services, grocery, online video streaming, content creation and, oh, did we m…
00:20:53 |
Tue 21 May 2019
Managers: Are You Prepared to Handle Religion in the Workplace?
Challenges related to managing religion in the workplace are on the rise, as are religious discrimination claims and monetary settlements in the U.S. and around the world. Harvard Business School pro…
00:16:50 |
Tue 07 May 2019
Would You Live in a Smart City Where Government Controls Privacy?
Toronto is experimenting with smart city concepts envisioned by Google spin-off Sidewalk Labs. Harvard Business School professors Leslie John and Mitch Weiss discuss the tradeoffs of using technology…
00:24:08 |
Tue 16 Apr 2019
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faced a crucible moment in 2018 after Cambridge Analytica accessed data from 87 million Facebook accounts. Harvard Business School professor Bill George discusses his cas…
00:19:32 |
Wed 03 Apr 2019
Will Startup Fishbowl Become the Social Media App for Your Industry?
Fishbowl's founders have built a social media platform allowing professionals to connect anonymously and with candor within their companies and industry. But the app is still largely limited to the c…
00:19:51 |
Fri 22 Mar 2019
How Helena Rubinstein Used Tall Tales to Turn Cosmetics into a Luxury Brand
Harvard Business School professor Geoff Jones examines the career of Helena Rubinstein, one of the trailblazing female entrepreneurs of the 20th century. Using guile, brilliant branding, and more tha…
00:24:09 |
Tue 12 Mar 2019
Pursuing Precision Medicine at Intermountain Healthcare
What happens when Intermountain Healthcare invests resources in an innovative precision medicine unit to provide life-extending, genetically targeted therapies to late-stage cancer patients? Harvard …
00:26:04 |
Tue 26 Feb 2019
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