Cold Call

Brian Kenny

Booking Overview

Cold Call turns Harvard Business School case studies into a guest-driven learning format where faculty and real business leaders unpack decisions and takeaways. For PR pros, it’s a strong platform for executives, scholars, and operators who can translate strategy, leadership, and commercialization into clear lessons.

Metrics

Episodes: 287

Frequency: Biweekly

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Instagram: 3.0M followers

30s Ad: 114 - 143, 60s Ad: 138 - 168

Contact Information

podcasts@hbr.org

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Host

Brian Kenny - Host of Cold Call, a podcast distilling Harvard Business School case studies. He guides discussions with Harvard Business School faculty and involved business leaders/participants to extract practi...

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

high

Typical Credentials:

Harvard Business School faculty (e.g., professor/assistant professor/senior lecturer) and/or prominent case participants such as CEOs/founders/operators or senior technical leaders whose real-world decisions are embodied in an HBS case.

Required Achievements:

Authorship or co-authorship of well-known Harvard Business School cases, Executive leadership role in a scaled company or major organizational pivot, Demonstrated commercialization, turnaround, or growth execution, Subject-matter expertise tied to a specific case (e.g., sustainability, channel strategy, social-impact scaling)

Recent Guest Discussions

Dimitri Papalexopoulos - Leadership Evolution During Product Portfolio Pivot; Succession Decision-making And Operational Strategy; Ai-driven Productivity And Low-carbon Efforts

George Serafeim - HBS Case Discussion On Transforming A Family-owned Cement Company; Digitalization, Globalization, Succession Planning, Low-carbon Acceleration

Dr. Shannon Yee - Commercialization And Scaling Challenges For Off-grid Sanitation Technology; Product-to-market Constraints And Stakeholder Alignment

Maria Roche - HBS Case Discussion On Scaling Sanitation Tech For Social Good; Behavior Change, Infrastructure Compatibility, Financing Models, Stakeholder Incentives

David Friend - Decision Process For Pivoting From Direct Sales To Channel Strategy; Scaling Growth While Changing Go-to-market Approach

Recent Topics

Business, Leadership, Strategy, Innovation, Commercialization, Sustainability, Management, Succession, Product Development, Entrepreneurship

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on

Cold Call

How Strong Teams Leverage Different Personality Types

May 26, 2026

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 Bene. They explore MBA students’ journeys through the first-year FIELD Global Capstone course and how the TypeCoach personality classications taught them how to recognize and work across cognitive differences, ultimately improving team dynamics and their final project outcome.

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

May 12, 2026

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 organizations—the initial excitement had not yet materialized into widespread adoption and transformation. But, two years after initiating their AI transformation journey, the organization’s daily active usage of AI tools had reached over 60% and monthly active usage over 98%, significantly al...

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

April 28, 2026

Over 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 leap, even while steering the company through multiple economic crises. As TITAN prepared for its next phase of growth, Papalexopoulos faced the consequential decision of whether to continue leading the company, promote a trusted insider, or become the first in the company’s hi...

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