Stanford GSB Quick Study
Anitmated Series
This award-winning animated series stems from a collaboration between Sam, Stanford’s GSB and Autmn Line. Together, they took research papers of professors at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and breaks them down to briefly give an overview of their work.
Synopsis of piece above: Within the first 27 seconds of a routine traffic stop, Professor Jennifer Eberhardt can predict whether that encounter will lead to an escalation. In a groundbreaking study, Eberhardt found that the first 45 words spoken by police officers during traffic stops can predict with over 70% accuracy whether the encounter will escalate. By analyzing body camera footage from nearly 600 stops involving Black drivers, Eberhardt's team identified a “linguistic signature” that often precedes handcuffing, search, or arrest. In the latest episode of our Quick Study video series, Eberhardt discusses how these findings could revolutionize police training and improve community relations by leveraging the rich data contained in body camera footage.
Director: Sam Shimizu-Jones
Producer: Kelsey Doyle
Design & Animation: Autumnline Studios
Script: Andrew Stelzer
Synopsis: People's views about who deserves the blame for social conflicts may seem almost impossible to change. Yet in a recent study, Nir Halevy, a professor of organizational behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business, and Preeti Vani, a PhD student, found that opinions about contentious issues could be shifted just by rephrasing a question. Here, in the first episode of the new series Quick Study, the researchers discuss their findings and what they reveal about the way we think about assigning blame to groups of others.
*Winner of a 2023 Webby Award
Synopsis: Since the 1970s, venture capitalists have backed about one-third of all large publicly traded companies started in the U.S. That’s one of the remarkable findings from Ilya Strebulaev, a finance professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business who studies the inner workings of the VC industry. Here, in the latest episode of our Quick Study video series, Strebulaev discusses what he’s learned about “the VC mindset” — a unique approach to investing in risky, high-growth startups.
Synopsis: China hopes that its currency will someday challenge the U.S. dollar's place as the world's reserve currency. Getting there won't be easy. But, as Stanford Graduate School of Business finance professor Matteo Maggiori explains, if Beijing sticks to its plan, it will have profound effects on the global economy. Here, in the latest episode of our video series Quick Study, Maggiori discusses what China must do to achieve its ambitious financial and monetary goals.
