HBR Presents: Cold Call

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Harvard Business Review

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4.4 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2019

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

Harvard Business School's Brian Kenny is joined by professors to distill the school's legendary case studies into podcast form, giving listeners important takeaways they can use in their own businesses and careers. In this episode, Harvard Business School professors Leslie John and Mitch Weiss discuss a case on the city of Toronto, and how it is experimenting with various smart city ideas born of the Google spin-off Sidewalk Labs. "Cold Call" is part of HBR Presents, a new network of business podcasts curated by HBR editors. For our full lineup of shows, search “HBR” on your favorite podcast app or visit hbr.org/podcasts.

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0:20.3	I'm Kurt Nickish and along with Allison Beard I host the H.Barr I host the
0:26.8	H.Bri idea cast and I want to share another special episode with you from a new
0:31.6	show on our new podcast network, HBR presents.
0:35.3	The show is called Cold Call, and anyone who went to business school probably knows where
0:39.7	the name comes from.
0:41.1	It's when a class is discussing a case study and the professor puts a student on the spot to give
0:46.7	some analysis or specifics from the case. It's a defining feeling of the case study classroom experience terrifying in the moment, but
0:54.8	ultimately good for you.
0:56.6	Well there's nothing terrifying about the podcast Cold Call.
1:00.6	You get to listen to faculty discuss cases and the lessons buried in them and they never call on you.
1:06.0	You can use those insights in your career or at your organization.
1:10.0	The episode you're about to hear is a good example.
1:12.0	HBS professors Leslie John and Mitch W The episode you're about to hear is a good example.
1:12.6	HBS professors Leslie John and Mitch Weiss talk about the future of smart cities
1:17.8	and the trade-offs between technology and privacy that come with improving life in a metropolis.
1:24.0	HBRG. Well. I do not believe it would be possible to make one sillier.
1:43.2	So sayeth H.G. Wells in his New York Times review of the
1:46.8	1927 film Metropolis. And he wasn't alone.
1:51.2	At just over two and a half hours,
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