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

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