Cold Call

By HBR Presents / Brian Kenny

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 Apr 25, 2019
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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.

Episode Date
Sustaining a Legacy of Giving in Turkey
Apr 09, 2024
How One Leader Overcame Career-Ending Adversity
Mar 26, 2024
How to Bring Good Ideas to Life: The Paul English Story
Mar 12, 2024
How Could Harvard Decarbonize Its Supply Chain?
Feb 27, 2024
Apple’s Dilemma: Balancing Privacy and Safety Responsibilities
Feb 13, 2024
Can Second-Generation Ethanol Production Help Decarbonize the World?
Jan 30, 2024
How SolarWinds Responded to the 2020 SUNBURST Cyberattack
Jan 16, 2024
Should Businesses Take a Stand on Societal Issues?
Jan 02, 2024
Can Sustainability Drive Innovation at Ferrari?
Dec 12, 2023
What Founders Get Wrong about Sales and Marketing
Dec 05, 2023
Tommy Hilfiger’s Adaptive Clothing Line: Making Fashion Inclusive
Nov 28, 2023
Building a More Equitable Culture at Delta Air Lines
Nov 21, 2023
How Should Meta Be Governed for the Good of Society?
Nov 07, 2023
How the United States Air Force Accelerated AI Adoption
Oct 24, 2023
Scaling Two Businesses Against the Odds: Wendy Estrella’s Founder Journey
Oct 10, 2023
The PGA Tour and LIV Golf Merger: Competition Vs. Cooperation
Sep 26, 2023
Can Remote Surgeries Digitally Transform Operating Rooms?
Sep 12, 2023
As Social Networks Get More Competitive, Which Ones Will Survive?
Aug 29, 2023
Ryan Serhant: How to Manage Your Time for Happiness
Aug 15, 2023
Can Business Transform Primary Health Care Across Africa?
Aug 01, 2023
Diversity and Inclusion at Mars Petcare: Translating Awareness into Action
Jul 18, 2023
How Unilever Is Preparing for the Future of Work
Jul 04, 2023
Elon Musk’s Twitter Takeover: Lessons in Strategic Change
Jun 20, 2023
The Opioid Crisis, CEO Pay, and Shareholder Activism
Jun 06, 2023
The Entrepreneurial Journey of China’s First Private Mental Health Hospital
May 23, 2023
Can Robin Williams’ Son Help Other Families Heal Addiction and Depression?
May 09, 2023
Sweden’s Northvolt Electric Battery Maker: A Startup with a Mission
Apr 28, 2023
Equity Bank CEO James Mwangi: Transforming Lives with Access to Credit
Apr 27, 2023
How Martine Rothblatt Started a Company to Save Her Daughter
Apr 26, 2023
Using Design Thinking to Invent a Low-Cost Prosthesis for Land Mine Victims
Apr 25, 2023
Our All-Time Favorite Episodes of Cold Call
Apr 24, 2023
A Rose by Any Other Name: Supply Chains and Carbon Emissions in the Flower Industry
Apr 11, 2023
BMW’s Decarbonization Strategy: Sustainable for the Environment and the Bottom Line
Mar 28, 2023
Can AI and Machine Learning Help Park Rangers Prevent Poaching?
Mar 14, 2023
Muhammad Ali: A Case Study in Purpose-Driven Decision Making
Feb 28, 2023
Does It Pay to Be a Whistleblower?
Feb 14, 2023
Addressing Racial Discrimination on Airbnb
Jan 31, 2023
Nestlé’s KitKat Diplomacy: Neutrality vs. Shared Value
Jan 17, 2023
Wordle: Can a Pandemic Phenomenon Sustain in the Long Term?
Jan 03, 2023
Metaverse Seoul: How One City Used Citizen Input to Pilot a Government-Run Metaverse
Dec 13, 2022
How Will Gamers and Investors Respond to Microsoft’s Acquisition of Activision Blizzard?
Nov 29, 2022
Planning the Future for Harlem’s Beloved Sylvia’s Restaurant
Nov 15, 2022
Marie Curie: A Case Study in Breaking Barriers
Nov 01, 2022
Chewy.com’s Make-or-Break Logistics Dilemma
Oct 18, 2022
Corporate Governance and Growth Strategy at Capital SAFI
Oct 04, 2022
Larry Fink at BlackRock: Linking Purpose to Profit
Sep 20, 2022
Reinventing an Iconic Independent Bookstore
Sep 06, 2022
Management Lessons from the Sinking of the SS El Faro
Aug 23, 2022
A Lesson from Google: Can AI Bias be Monitored Internally?
Aug 09, 2022
Can Bombas Reach New Customers while Maintaining Its Social Mission?
Jul 26, 2022
Can the Foodservice Distribution Industry Recover from the Pandemic?
Jul 12, 2022
Scaling a Fintech Startup for the Greater Good
Jun 28, 2022
What Does It Take to Close the Opportunity Gap in America’s Labor Market?
Jun 14, 2022
Corruption: New Insights for Fighting an Age-Old Business Problem
May 31, 2022
Delivering a Personalized Shopping Experience with AI
May 17, 2022
Can a Social Entrepreneur End Homelessness in the U.S.?
May 03, 2022
What Role Do Individual Leaders Play in Corporate Governance?
Apr 19, 2022
Transforming Deloitte’s Approach to Consulting
Apr 05, 2022
How Etsy Found Its Purpose and Crafted a Turnaround
Mar 22, 2022
France Telecom: Corporate Restructuring and Employee Wellbeing
Mar 08, 2022
How to Scale a Startup Marketplace for Used Furniture
Feb 22, 2022
How to Make Venture Capital Accessible for Black Founders: An Entrepreneur’s Dilemma
Feb 15, 2022
What’s Next for Nigerian Production Studio EbonyLife Media?
Feb 08, 2022
Making Diverse Leadership a Priority at Whittier College
Feb 01, 2022
How Footwear Startup Allbirds Is Decarbonizing Fashion
Jan 25, 2022
Can Entrepreneurs and Governments Team Up to Solve Big Problems?
Jan 11, 2022
How Japan’s Recruit Holdings Regained Trust after a Scandal
Dec 14, 2021
TikTok: Super App or Supernova?
Nov 30, 2021
Can Mass General Brigham Diversify Its Community of Innovators?
Nov 16, 2021
Innovating in the Feminine Care Market
Nov 02, 2021
Should Global Beer Company Molson Coors Enter the Cannabis Beverages Business?
Oct 19, 2021
How the Clean Network Changed the Future of Global Technology Competition
Oct 05, 2021
Why JPMorgan Chase Is Committed to Improving Racial Equity in Banking
Sep 21, 2021
How to Lead through a Merger: US Airways and American Airlines
Sep 07, 2021
Why Did Pet Concierge Startup Baroo Fail?
Aug 24, 2021
The Science of Sales Conversations with Gong’s Amit Bendov
Aug 10, 2021
Mixing Sports and Money: Adidas and the Commercialization of the Olympics
Jul 27, 2021
Strategies for Underdogs: How Alibaba’s Taobao Beat eBay in China
Jul 13, 2021
Procter & Gamble’s Lean Innovation Transformation
Jun 29, 2021
IKEA Navigates the Future While Staying True to Its Culture
Jun 15, 2021
Running a Consumer Fintech Startup within Goldman Sachs
Jun 01, 2021
How Georgia State University Increased Graduation Rates
May 18, 2021
Reversing Brain Drain: Moving Talent to Middle America
May 04, 2021
What Went Wrong with the Boeing 737 Max?
Apr 20, 2021
Disrupting the Waste Management Industry with Technology
Apr 06, 2021
Managing Future Growth at an Innovative Workforce Education Start-up
Mar 23, 2021
A Family Business at a Crossroads: Scaling and Succession
Mar 09, 2021
Can Historic Social Injustices be Addressed Through Reparations?
Mar 02, 2021
Examining Race and Mass Incarceration in the United States
Feb 23, 2021
Fostering Authenticity and Employee Engagement at John Deere
Feb 16, 2021
Developing Resilience on the Path to Becoming a CEO
Feb 09, 2021
Using Empathy and Curiosity to Overcome Differences
Feb 02, 2021
Engaging Community to Create Proactive, Equitable Public Safety
Jan 19, 2021
Using Behavioral Science to Improve Well-Being for Social Workers
Jan 05, 2021
Dove: Maintaining a Brand with Purpose
Dec 22, 2020
Uber’s Strategy for Global Success
Dec 08, 2020
Evaluating Innovative Health Care Solutions for Obesity
Nov 24, 2020
The Challenges of Commercializing Fertility
Nov 10, 2020
Growing a Manufacturing Company with a Social Mission
Oct 27, 2020
Can Entrepreneurs Make Mobile Voting Easy and Secure?
Oct 13, 2020
Employee Performance vs. Company Values: A Manager’s Dilemma
Sep 29, 2020
Is Happiness at Work Really Attainable?
Sep 15, 2020
How to Launch a New Biosciences Product: Start Small or Dive in?
Sep 01, 2020
Testing New Contact Tracing Approaches in a Pandemic
Aug 18, 2020
Glossier Built a Cult Brand and a Digital Community, but What’s Next?
Aug 04, 2020
Starbucks Commits to Raising Awareness of Racial Bias
Jul 21, 2020
SmileDirectClub Looks Beyond Direct-to-Consumer Marketing
Jul 07, 2020
Is It Time for Big Apple Circus to Fold the Tent?
Jun 23, 2020
In a Pandemic, What’s the Best Strategy for the Global Vaccine Alliance?
Jun 09, 2020
Can the “Cummings Way” Live on After the Founder Retires?
May 26, 2020
Autonomous Vehicles are Ready to Disrupt Society, Business, and You
May 12, 2020
Is the Healthiest Building in the World Worth the Rent?
Apr 28, 2020
Fortnite Was a Blockbuster for Epic Games, What’s the Encore?
Apr 14, 2020
Bringing the Case Method Online
Apr 07, 2020
Controlling the Emotion of Negotiation
Mar 31, 2020
Is There a Winner in Huawei’s Digital Cold War with the U.S.?
Mar 17, 2020
Do Universities Need 2U to Create Digital Education?
Mar 03, 2020
Global Ocean Trust: Protecting the Blue Planet in New Ways
Feb 18, 2020
Why Backstage Capital Invests in “Underestimated” Entrepreneurs
Feb 04, 2020
China-based Fuyao Glass Considers Manufacturing in the U.S.
Jan 21, 2020
Can Capitalism Be Fixed by Making Companies More Just?
Jan 07, 2020
Under Pressure, OXXO Rethinks the Convenience Store
Dec 17, 2019
Why CalSTRS Chooses to Engage with the Gun Industry
Dec 03, 2019
Lessons from IBM in Nazi Germany
Nov 19, 2019
Can the Robin Hood Army Grow with Zero Financial Resources?
Nov 05, 2019
Goldman Sachs’ $500 Million Bet on Small Businesses
Oct 15, 2019
Can Gimlet Turn a Podcast Network Into a Disruptive Platform?
Oct 01, 2019
How a New Leader Broke Through a Culture of Accuse, Blame, and Criticize
Sep 17, 2019
At Booking.com, Innovation Means Constant Failure
Sep 03, 2019
Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World?
Aug 20, 2019
Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?
Aug 06, 2019
JUUL: Leading the Vaping Revolution
Jul 16, 2019
The Controversial History of United Fruit
Jul 02, 2019
In the Platform Economy, Upwork Searches for Better Matches in the Cloud
Jun 25, 2019
Can Khan Academy Scale to Educate Anyone, Anywhere?
Jun 18, 2019
Israel Turns 70: Does It Need a Rebrand?
Jun 04, 2019
If the Key to Business Success Is Focus, Why Does Amazon Work?
May 21, 2019
Managers: Are You Prepared to Handle Religion in the Workplace?
May 07, 2019
Would You Live in a Smart City Where Government Controls Privacy?
Apr 16, 2019
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
Apr 03, 2019
Will Startup Fishbowl Become the Social Media App for Your Industry?
Mar 22, 2019
How Helena Rubinstein Used Tall Tales to Turn Cosmetics into a Luxury Brand
Mar 12, 2019
Pursuing Precision Medicine at Intermountain Healthcare
Feb 26, 2019
The Delicious History of Hershey Chocolate
Feb 13, 2019
How Wegmans Became a Leader in Improving Food Safety
Jan 29, 2019
Can Miguel McKelvey Build the “Culture Operating System” at WeWork?
Jan 09, 2019
Using Fintech to Disrupt Eastern Bank from Within
Dec 18, 2018
Honda Created a Civic for Very Light Jets: How High Will it Fly?
Dec 05, 2018
Building a Nonprofit Marketplace System to Feed America
Nov 19, 2018
Could Big Data Replace the Creative Director at the Gap?
Nov 07, 2018
Vodafone’s Innovative Approach to Advanced Technologies
Oct 24, 2018
Baseball’s Billy Beane Shows Companies the Power of Data
Oct 10, 2018
Did Entrepreneur Ernesto Tornquist Help or Hurt Argentina?
Sep 19, 2018
Should U.S. Companies Still Care About the Paris Climate Change Agreement?
Sep 05, 2018
Two Million Fake Accounts: Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo
Aug 17, 2018
The Transformation of Microsoft
Jul 10, 2018
LA Philharmonic Shows the American Symphony Orchestra Isn’t Dead Yet
Jun 27, 2018
How Chase Sapphire Made Credit Cool for Millennials
Jun 13, 2018
Careem: Riding the First Unicorn in the Middle East
May 29, 2018
Candy Crush was a Blockbuster; Can King Digital Capitalize?
May 09, 2018
Why JPMorgan Chase is Investing Millions in Detroit
Apr 25, 2018
How a Coal Polluter Became a Renewable Energy Leader
Apr 03, 2018
Trump’s Populism: What Business Leaders Need to Understand
Mar 21, 2018
Could a New Business Model Make Clinical Drug Trials More Accessible to Patients?
Mar 05, 2018
Black Business Leaders Series: John Rogers and the Importance of Hiring Minority-Owned Services Firms
Feb 13, 2018
Black Business Leaders Series: Oprah’s Path to Authentic Leadership
Jan 31, 2018
One Love: Managing a Movement Against Relationship Violence
Jan 23, 2018
Leadership Lessons from the Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jan 11, 2018
How to Monetize Happiness
Jan 03, 2018
Does Time Pressure Hinder or Facilitate Creativity at Work?
Dec 04, 2017
Language and Globalization: The Mandate to Speak English at Rakuten
Nov 15, 2017
Could a Hackathon Help Solve the Heroin Crisis?
Oct 31, 2017
Telemundo: The Fastest Growing TV Network in the United States
Oct 11, 2017
How to Promote Home Delivery of Prescription Drugs? Give Employees a “Nudge”
Oct 03, 2017
State Street’s SHE: Investing in Women Leaders
Sep 19, 2017
Faber-Castell Doubles Down on the Pencil
Sep 05, 2017
Does Le Pliage Help or Hurt the Longchamp Luxury Brand?
Aug 22, 2017
Pal’s Sudden Service: Taking Fast Food to the Next Level
Aug 08, 2017
From Don Draper to Big Data: The Revolution in Advertising
Jul 21, 2017
ShotSpotter: A Gunfire Detection Business Looks for a New Market
Jun 19, 2017
Building India’s First $100 Billion Company
May 30, 2017
Reversing the Losing Streak on Sesame Street
May 16, 2017
Leading Your Team to the Top of Mt. Everest
May 02, 2017
Making Health Insurance Consumers Actually Like
Apr 18, 2017
Why German Businesses Support, Train, and Hire Syrian Refugees
Apr 04, 2017
Cost-cutting Leads to Turbulence in the Airline Industry
Mar 21, 2017
IDEO Is Changing the Way Managers Think About Thinking
Mar 03, 2017
Black Business Leaders Series: Franklin Leonard, “Black List” Mastermind
Feb 22, 2017
Black Business Leaders Series: A Remarkable Legacy of Firsts, Maggie Lena Walker
Feb 15, 2017
Black Business Leaders Series: Putting Diversity to Work
Jan 26, 2017
Black Business Leaders Series: The Entrepreneurship Behind Ebony Magazine
Jan 26, 2017
Can Wynton Marsalis and Lincoln Center Save Jazz Music?
Jan 18, 2017
The American Food Paradox: Growing Obese and Going Hungry
Jan 03, 2017
Target’s Expensive Cybersecurity Mistake
Dec 20, 2016
How Wayfair Built a Furniture Brand from Scratch
Dec 07, 2016
Digital Change: Lessons from the Newspaper Industry
Nov 18, 2016
Building Affordable Health Care in Paradise
Nov 14, 2016
Managing in the Real World: How to Make Gray-Area Decisions
Nov 03, 2016
The Crash and the Fix of HealthCare.gov
Nov 01, 2016
Oktoberfest: Making Money Off of Tradition
Oct 04, 2016
Innovation Under Constraint: Constructing a Turnaround at Lego
Oct 04, 2016
Netflix Wins Big by Betting on “House of Cards”
Oct 04, 2016
Behind Apple’s Tax Situation, an Unprecedented Financial Policy
Oct 04, 2016
What Building a “Jeopardy!” Robot Taught IBM About Innovation
Oct 04, 2016
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
Oct 04, 2016
How Modest Investors Can Still Bet Big
Oct 04, 2016
How to Fix a Broken Global Team
Oct 04, 2016
Who Makes the Eyes for Driverless Cars?
Oct 04, 2016
Hold Onto Your Complexity: Bringing Multiple Identities to Work
Oct 04, 2016
A Better World Through Brewing
Oct 04, 2016
Who Owns Space?
Oct 04, 2016
The Real Cost of Ignoring Mental Health in the Workplace
Oct 04, 2016
Walmart: Changing the World for Better or Worse?
Oct 04, 2016
The Key to Keeping Resolutions? Betting Against Yourself
Sep 19, 2016
A Map of Economic Renewal Begins in Maine
Sep 19, 2016
The Team Sport of Scaling a Business
Sep 19, 2016
For the Hotel Business, it’s TripAdvisor or Bust
Sep 19, 2016
The Amazing Life of One of America’s Earliest Black Female Entrepreneurs
Sep 19, 2016
The Space Shuttle Columbia’s Final Mission
Sep 19, 2016
The Power of Presence at the Podium
Sep 19, 2016
A Microchip in Your Medicine
Sep 19, 2016
Designing a Great Community
Sep 19, 2016
Planning Change: Lessons from the World of Retail
Sep 19, 2016
Leadership from Below
Sep 19, 2016
A Hard Sell: Bringing Cultured Beef to Market
Sep 19, 2016
The Long Run: The Impact of Brain Injuries on the NFL
Sep 19, 2016
Bringing “Moneyball” to the NBA
Sep 19, 2016
Making the Case for a New Kind of Classroom
Sep 19, 2016
Dangerous Mines: Saving Lives Through Leadership
Sep 16, 2016
Cold Calling Stella McCartney
Sep 16, 2016
Cold Call Introduction
Sep 16, 2016