Oct 27, 202630 min
In early 2023, Tufan Erginbilgiç took over as CEO of the U.K.’s legendary jet engine and power systems giant Rolls-Royce. Despite its legacy and a culture steeped in engineering brilliance, Rolls-Royce had...
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Cold Call
Hosted by HBR Presents / Brian Kenny · business · EN
About this Podcast:
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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What is Cold Call about?
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.
Who hosts Cold Call?
Cold Call is hosted by HBR Presents / Brian Kenny. The show has published 299 episodes to date.
What has Cold Call covered recently?
Recent episodes include "How the CEO of Rolls-Royce Turned an Underperforming Company Around" (27 October 2026, 30 minutes), "Restructuring Mobile Game Giant Supercell for a Turnaround" (13 October 2026, 37 minutes), and "Getting Your Boss to Buy into Your Strategy (from “Coaching Real Leaders”)" (6 October 2026, 51 minutes).
How often does Cold Call publish?
Cold Call publishes roughly every two weeks, with episodes averaging 31 minutes across 299 episodes.
How hard is it to get booked on Cold Call?
Booking probability for Cold Call is 37%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Cold Call requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Cold Call's contact route on record: verified email.
Who should pitch Cold Call?
The strongest fits for Cold Call are Universities & Colleges. Cold Call has a business audience.
About the host
HBR Presents / Brian Kenny hosts Cold Call, a business podcast with 299 episodes published.
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Recent episodes
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- Oct 13, 202637 min
Founded in 2010, Supercell was a Finland-based mobile gaming company that had developed and launched five global hit mobile games. The company’s early philosophy was that it could produce hits by designing the company...
- Oct 6, 202651 min
You have a strategy you believe in. But what happens when your boss doesn’t? “Cold Call” presents this bonus episode from the podcast “Coaching Real Leaders,” where host and executive coach Muriel Wilkins works with an...
- Sep 29, 202628 min
With viewership of the British Broadcasting Company (BBC) in decline, the country’s Culture Minister must recommend a new funding model for the venerated public institution which will allow the broadcaster to succeed in...
Episode #292
Dare to Be Bad at Something (From Fixable)
Sep 22, 202626 minSometimes 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 show’s hosts, Leadership Coach Anne Morriss and Harvard Business School...
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Episode #291
How GEO Is Changing the Role of Brand Manager
Sep 15, 202631 minAthenaHQ, a startup that helps brands monitor, protect, and optimize their visibility across conversational AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini was founded in 2025. Co-founded by Andrew Yan, the company built a...
- Sep 1, 202632 min
How do you scale innovation in a fragmented system you don’t fully control? That is the challenge Highland Electric Fleets faced as it worked to replace diesel school buses with electric vehicles across the United...
Episode #289
Can an AI-Powered Scribe Curb Physician Burnout?
Aug 18, 202624 minIn 2024, Mass General Brigham, the largest health system in Massachusetts, piloted an AI-powered, ambient note-taking and transcription program among a subset of clinicians to address increasing rates of staff burnout...
- Aug 4, 202624 min
Founded in 2021, AI generative video company Metaphysic first rose to fame through viral deepfake videos. It achieved a significant milestone with "Here," the first major film to use AI for de-aging actors, including...
- Jul 21, 202627 min
In 2025, Harvard Art Museums considered using generative AI in a marketing campaign to increase visitor engagement and membership. Looking to boost attendance and appeal to a younger audience base, and facing...
- Jul 7, 202630 min
In March 2024, The Atlantic announced a strategic content and product partnership with artificial intelligence giant OpenAI. OpenAI would license The Atlantic’s content to train its models and respond to user queries...
- Jun 23, 202637 min
In the summer of 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before Rob Price became CEO in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist culture led...
- Jun 9, 202633 min
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 Lecturer Reza Satchu, Satchu sits down with writer, podcaster, and investor Tim...
- May 26, 202627 min
Harvard Business School Professor Len Schlesinger and TypeCoach President Rob Toomey join Brian Kenny to discuss the two mini cases, Night Two in Hanoi: Team Dynamics Under Pressure and Day 6 in Buenos Aires: Fatto...
- May 12, 202627 min
In early 2024, six months after the highly anticipated launch of Microsoft Copilot across the 62,000-person Microsoft Customer and Partner Solutions (MCAPS) organization—one of the world’s largest sales...
Episode #281
How a Family-Owned Greek Cement Company Evolved Its Leadership While Pivoting Its Product Portfolio
Apr 28, 202635 minOver 26 years at the helm, Dimitri Papalexopoulos, fourth-generation CEO of TITAN Cement, has turned the company from a domestic player into an internationally diversified group and championed an AI-driven productivity...
- Apr 14, 202630 min
In 2021, a breakthrough in sanitation technology – developed under the Gates Foundation’s “Reinvent the Toilet” challenge – stood ready for commercialization. The Single User Reinvented Toilet (SURT) offered an...
- Mar 31, 202628 min
After launching Wasabi Technologies, a successful cloud storage company, founder and CEO David Friend was ready to scale the venture rapidly. The company had focused primarily on direct sales, but an opportunity to...
Episode #278
How Software Startup InsightSquared Wrestled with Creating an Optimal Sales and Marketing Strategy
Mar 17, 202632 minSoftware startup InsightSquared had recently hit $2 million in revenue and secured an $8 million round of venture capital. However, the founders disagreed on the path ahead, specifically on the sales and marketing plan...
- Mar 3, 202625 min
A bank’s decision to experiment with being more transparent with about credit card drawbacks might help customers make better choices, but would those choices come at the expense of bank performance? Harvard Business...
Recent guests
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Anne Morriss
Leadership Coach, The Leadership Consortium
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Frances Frei
Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School
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Julian De Freitas
Harvard Business School Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
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John Connolly
temporary commissioner and state Medicaid director, Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy
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