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Cold Call by Harvard Business School

HBR Presents / Brian Kenny

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 di...

Episodes

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Restructuring Mobile Game Giant Supercell for a Turnaround

Founded in 2010, Supercell was a Finland-based mobile gaming company that had developed and launched five global hit mobile games. The compa...

36:43Oct 13, 2026

Getting Your Boss to Buy into Your Strategy (from “Coaching Real Leaders”)

You have a strategy you believe in. But what happens when your boss doesn’t? “Cold Call” presents this bonus episode from the podcast “Coach...

50:31Oct 6, 2026

Considering the Future of the BBC and Its Funding Model

With viewership of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) in decline, the country’s Culture Minister must recommend a new funding model for...

27:35Sep 29, 2026

Dare to Be Bad at Something (from Fixable)

Sometimes the only way to win is by finding the courage to lose. Cold Call presents a special episode from TED’s Fixable podcast. In it, the...

26:08Sep 22, 2026

How GEO Is Changing the Role of Brand Manager

AthenaHQ, a startup that helps brands monitor, protect, and optimize their visibility across conversational AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude,...

31:11Sep 15, 2026

Best of Cold Call: The Bumpy Road to Expanding a Fleet of Electric School Buses

How do you scale innovation in a fragmented system you don’t fully control? That is the challenge Highland Electric Fleets faced as it worke...

32:00Sep 1, 2026

Can an AI-Powered Scribe Curb Physician Burnout?

In 2024, Mass General Brigham, the largest health system in Massachusetts, piloted an AI-powered, ambient note-taking and transcription prog...

24:03Aug 18, 2026

Why Metaphysic AI Looked to Hollywood for a Digital Rights Model

Founded in 2021, AI generative video company Metaphysic first rose to fame through viral deepfake videos. It achieved a significant mileston...

24:09Aug 4, 2026

How a Museum Marketing Team Used AI to Bring People Closer to Art

In 2025, Harvard Art Museums considered using generative AI in a marketing campaign to increase visitor engagement and membership. Looking t...

26:42Jul 21, 2026

Are We Entering a New Age of Creativity with the Help of AI?

In March 2024, The Atlantic announced a strategic content and product partnership with artificial intelligence giant OpenAI. OpenAI would li...

29:48Jul 7, 2026

How School of Rock Created Structure in Order to Scale with Agility and Creativity

In the summer of 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. B...

37:15Jun 23, 2026

The Founder Mindset: Tim Ferriss on Experiments, Risk, and Freedom

What does it take to be a founder? In this episode of The Founder Mindset, produced by Harvard Business School Foundry and hosted by Senior...

32:37Jun 9, 2026

How Strong Teams Leverage Different Personality Types

Harvard Business School Professor Len Schlesinger and TypeCoach President Rob Toomey join Brian Kenny to discuss the two mini cases, Night T...

26:53May 26, 2026

Microsoft’s Path to Adopting and Scaling AI Across its Sales Organization

In early 2024, six months after the highly anticipated launch of Microsoft Copilot across the 62,000-person Microsoft Customer and Partner S...

26:47May 12, 2026

How a Family-Owned Greek Cement Company Evolved Its Leadership While Pivoting Its Product Portfolio

Over 26 years at the helm, Dimitri Papalexopoulos, fourth-generation CEO of TITAN Cement, has turned the company from a domestic player into...

34:31Apr 28, 2026

The Challenges of Scaling a Technology for Social Good

In 2021, a breakthrough in sanitation technology – developed under the Gates Foundation’s “Reinvent the Toilet” challenge – stood ready for...

29:44Apr 14, 2026

Should Wasabi Technologies Make the Move from Direct Sales to a Channel Strategy?

After launching Wasabi Technologies, a successful cloud storage company, founder and CEO David Friend was ready to scale the venture rapidly...

27:48Mar 31, 2026

How Software Startup InsightSquared Wrestled with Creating an Optimal Sales and Marketing Strategy

Software startup InsightSquared had recently hit $2 million in revenue and secured an $8 million round of venture capital. However, the foun...

31:47Mar 17, 2026

Why the Commonwealth Bank of Australia Opened Up to Customers about Credit Card Risks

A bank’s decision to experiment with being more transparent with about credit card drawbacks might help customers make better choices, but w...

25:02Mar 3, 2026

Innovations in Olympic Speed Skating: When to Reveal a Novel Approach

The U.S. Men’s Olympic speed skating team devised a new approach to the team pursuit event following their disappointing performance in the...

22:27Feb 17, 2026