The 2 Best Cold Call Podcast Episodes
1) Using Fintech to Disrupt Eastern Bank from Within
Was Eastern Labs a huge success or an expensive mistake? Eastern Bank CEO Bob Rivers innovates from within by partnering with fintech entrepreneur Dan O’Malley to launch a completely automated small b...Show More
2) Leadership Lessons from the Young Martin Luther King, Jr.
As the Montgomery Bus Boycott starts, the young Martin Luther King, Jr. faces challenges to his leadership goals, strategic vision, and personal and family safety. Harvard Business School professor Bi...Show More
3) 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 founders disagreed on the path ahead, specifically on the sales ...Show More
4) 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 would those choices come at the expense of bank performance? ...Show More
5) 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 2018 Winter Olympics. The team saw promising initial results...Show More
6) If and How to Scale the Acquired Podcast
By 2025, the business podcast Acquired was getting one million listeners per episode, having doubled the audience year over since Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal started it in 2015. And they’d grown w...Show More
7) How Italian Luxury Brand Golden Goose Determined Its Next Phase of Growth
In 2025, Golden Goose, the Italian brand known for its handcrafted, distressed sneakers, was at a crossroads. CEO Silvio Campara had grown the label from a cult favorite into a $650 million global for...Show More
8) How Equitable Confronted Its Inertia After 160 Years in Business
In 2019, Equitable’s CEO, Mark Pearson, set out to change how the 163-year-old financial services firm gets work done. He wanted the firm to speed up decision-making and empower employees through a fl...Show More
9) Climate Rising: Extending Apparel Lifespan with ThredUp
In this special holiday crossover episode from Harvard Business School’s Climate Rising podcast, Professor Mike Toffel talks with ThredUp CEO James Reinhart about the company’s mission to extend the l...Show More
10) Inside Coinbase’s Mission-First, Remote-First Bet
In 2020, cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase made two bold organizational moves: going fully remote and banning political discussion at work. These decisions, aimed at reinforcing a mission-first culture...Show More