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  • Should Google Stay in the Cloud Gaming Business?

    Should Google Stay in the Cloud Gaming Business?
    2025/02/18
    Google formally announced the innovative video game service Stadia at the 2019 Game Developer Conference. The company invested substantial resources to support the demanding requirements of cloud gaming. But the early uptake by premium video gamers was disappointing. The leadership team faced a decision. Should they double down by refocusing Stadia on the casual gamer segment? Or should they pull the plug? In this episode, Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Derek van Bever and coauthor Akshat Agrawal explore Google’s strategic choice in the case “Google Stadia: Game On or Game Over?”
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    35 分
  • Celebrating 10 Years of Cold Call

    Celebrating 10 Years of Cold Call
    2025/02/04
    Cold Call is celebrating its tenth year of distilling Harvard Business School case studies. To kick off the 2025 anniversary, the podcast’s production team has curated three favorite episodes from 2024. Host Brian Kenny recommends one on leadership with HBS Senior Lecturer Tony Mayo. Show producer Robin Passias selects an innovation episode with HBS Professor Frances Frei and entrepreneur Paul English. And audio engineer Craig McDonald highlights one on business model generation with HBS faculty member Jeffrey Rayport and football club cofounder Kara Nortman.
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    13 分
  • Managing the Future of Work: Microsoft’s AI Perspective

    Managing the Future of Work: Microsoft’s AI Perspective
    2025/01/21
    Artificial intelligence is changing how we live and work in ways large and small. And it's why today we’re sharing an episode of Harvard Business School’s Managing the Future of Work podcast. In the episode “Microsoft’s AI perspective: From chatbots to reengineering the organization” from February 21, 2024, HBS Professor Bill Kerr talks to Jared Spataro, Corporate Vice President of Modern Work and Business Applications at Microsoft. They discuss how the tech giant is experimenting its way from AI assistants to autonomous agents as it engages with stakeholders. The conversation also touches on the company’s relationship with OpenAI and ensuring the technology is employed responsibly.
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    43 分
  • The Leadership Style of Football Legend Deion Sanders

    The Leadership Style of Football Legend Deion Sanders
    2025/01/07
    In 2022, Deion Sanders, known as “Coach Prime,” was hired as head coach of the University of Colorado football team, which had only one winning season in the previous 15 years. Many observers were excited to have the two-time Super Bowl champion as CU’s new head coach. But some questioned whether Sanders had the experience needed to turn around a team in a highly competitive athletic conference. Others wondered whether his “old school” leadership style would be effective with today’s student-athletes. Still others doubted whether his approach would be sustainable. In this conversation with host Brian Kenny, Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Hise Gibson discusses Sanders’ leadership style and effectiveness exhibited in the case study “Deion Sanders: The Prime Effect.”
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    30 分
  • Scaling a Family Business While Maintaining Founding Values

    Scaling a Family Business While Maintaining Founding Values
    2024/12/24
    One of the oldest Black-owned security firms in the U.S., Johnson Security Bureau credits much of its success to its status as a woman-owned, minority-owned family firm. To grow the business, however, CEO Jessica Johnson-Cope considers partnering with security firms in other states, something that threatens to weaken some of her company’s founding values. She also considers expanding the business into cybersecurity. In this conversation, Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer Henry McGee and CEO Jessica Johnson-Cope discuss the issues in the case “Johnson Security Bureau: Building Multigenerational Success.”
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    31 分
  • A New Model for Funding Healthcare Innovation

    A New Model for Funding Healthcare Innovation
    2024/12/10
    Entrepreneur Duke Rohlen creates California-based Ajax Health under a new model. Partnering with private equity firms, Rohlen considers a $1 billion bid to buy medical device maker Cordis. If Ajax’s bid is successful, they will invest an additional $300 million to fund an accelerator to develop innovative new products to drive growth. Is Cordis the right opportunity for Rohlen and his team? Ajax Health founder Duke Rohlen (HBS MBA 2001) and HBS Professor Regina Herzlinger join host Brian Kenny to discuss the key success factors for both start-up and established medical technology firms. The case “Ajax Health: A New Model for Medical Technology Innovation” showcases how to structure a firm—in any industry—to maximize innovation and financial returns by better aligning incentives for the different skill sets required.
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    39 分
  • How Entertainment Lawyer John Branca Negotiated for the Beatles Songs Catalog

    How Entertainment Lawyer John Branca Negotiated for the Beatles Songs Catalog
    2024/11/26
    In 1985, pop music superstar Michael Jackson instructed his attorney, John Branca, to bid for the Northern Songs music catalog, which contained the songs of the Beatles. In a challenging negotiation, Branca secured the rights to the collection. Over the next three decades, first as Jackson’s attorney and later as the executor of his estate, Branca undertook numerous complex negotiations to secure and expand Jackson’s music publishing empire until it became the largest music publishing company in the world. Harvard Business School professor James K. Sebenius joins host Brian Kenny and a live audience of Harvard Business School alumni to discuss how to deal with tough negotiators effectively and ethically.
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    31 分
  • How Pernod Ricard Is Integrating AI into Its Workforce

    How Pernod Ricard Is Integrating AI into Its Workforce
    2024/11/12
    With operations in 70 countries and 20,000 employees, Pernod Ricard is a leader in premium international spirits. The company had achieved its leadership position in the market largely through strategic acquisition and an ability to build and grow its brand over time. But pressure to continually expand its extensive brand portfolio in order to meet customer demand meant that its traditional analog processes were not allowing the company to effectively manage its huge portfolio of products. In response, the company launched four key digital programs (KDPs) aimed at using data and artificial intelligence to automate processes and enable data-driven decision-making.
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    30 分