Cold Call is celebrating 200 episodes with a special five-part series during the week of April 24, 2023. Each day that week, Cold Call will release a new episode. To kick off the week-long celebration, the show’s producers have each picked their three favorite episodes from the archives for listeners to revisit.
Host Brian Kenny recommends:
Can Gimlet Turn a Podcast Network into a Disruptive Platform?) with professors John Deighton and Jeffrey Rayport
Employee Performance vs. Company Values: A Manager’s Dilemma) with former Dean Nitin Nohria
Global Ocean Trust: Protecting the Blue Planet in New Ways) with professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter and protagonist Torsten Thiele
Show producer Robin Passias recommends:
The Delicious History of Hershey Chocolate) with professor Nancy Koehn
Is Happiness at Work Really Attainable?) with professor Francesca Gino and protagonist Simón Cohen
Procter & Gamble’s Lean Innovation Transformation) with assistant professor Emily Truelove
Audio Engineer Craig McDonald recommends:
Baseball’s Billy Beane Shows Companies the Power of Data) with Dean Srikant Datar
How Wegmans Became a Leader in Improving Food Safety) with professor emeritus Ray Goldberg
A Lesson from Google: Can AI Bias Be Monitored Internally?) with professor Tsedal Neeley
Cases discussed in these episodes are available online: