If/Then

When should we leap instead of take the obvious next step? Why do we instinctively see gender everywhere? When do our opinions begin to feel less like ideas and more like our identity?
If/Then, from Stanford Graduate School of Business, is back with a new season of sharp, surprising conversations that deepen our understanding of business and leadership.
Each episode brings you into the room with a Stanford GSB faculty member as they discuss their research and how it challenges conventional wisdom, sharpens judgment, and reframes the way we approach complex decisions.
Join us on Wednesdays for a new season of If/Then.
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This week on If/Then we’re sharing an episode of GSB at 100, a limited audio series created especially for Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Centennial. GSB at 100 presents a scrapbook of memories, ideas, and breakthroughs as Stanford GSB celebrates its first century and looks around the corner to what the next 100 years may hold.

On this episode of GSB at 100, you’ll experience Centennial Day, hear Dean Sarah A. Soule honor the past, celebrate the present, and look to what the future may hold. GSB at 100 depicts a school defined not only by its innovation and impact, but by its people: curious students, devoted faculty, and accomplished staff — a community of thinkers, dreamers, and doers.

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This week on If/Then we’re sharing an episode of GSB at 100, a limited audio series created especially for Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Centennial. GSB at 100 presents a scrapbook of memories, ideas, and breakthroughs as Stanford GSB celebrates its first century and looks around the corner to what the next 100 years may hold.

On this episode of GSB at 100, you’ll step inside the classrooms where teaching sparks transformation.

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This week on [If/Then or View From The Top] we’re sharing an episode of GSB at 100, a limited audio series created especially for Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Centennial. GSB at 100 presents a scrapbook of memories, ideas, and breakthroughs as Stanford GSB celebrates its first century and looks around the corner to what the next 100 years may hold.

On this episode of GSB at 100, you’ll hear from the dedicated and accomplished staff members who work behind the scenes to make Stanford GSB a community unlike anywhere else in the world.

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This week on If/Then, we’re sharing an episode of What’s Your Problem?, a show from Pushkin Industries where entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists talk about the future they’re trying to build—and the problems they must solve to get there. Hosted by former Planet Money co-host Jacob Goldstein, each conversation explores the challenges and breakthroughs shaping the next wave of innovation.
In this episode, Goldstein speaks with Fei-Fei Li, Stanford computer scientist, former Chief Scientist of AI and Machine Learning at Google, and one of the most influential figures in the field of computer vision. Li reflects on her pioneering work developing ImageNet, the massive dataset that helped spark the modern AI revolution, and the “north star” questions that have guided her research from neuroscience to machine learning.
Together, they trace how a single insight about how humans see the world led to a paradigm shift in artificial intelligence—and how Li’s vision continues to shape the way we teach machines to see, learn, and collaborate with us.
More Resources:
• Fei Fei Li
• Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
• ImageNet
• What’s Your Problem?
If/Then is a podcast from Stanford Graduate School of Business that examines research findings that can help us navigate the complex issues we face in business, leadership, and society.

Chapters:
(00:00:00) Introducing “What’s Your Problem?”
Kevin Cool introduces the Pushkin Industries podcast hosted by Jacob Goldstein.
00:00:45 — What Is Computer Vision?
Jacob Goldstein and Fei-Fei Li explain how machines learn to see and interpret images.
00:03:18 — Real-World Uses of AI Vision
Li shares examples from healthcare, robotics, and environmental science.
00:05:06 — Discovering the Science of Seeing
How human vision research inspired Li’s lifelong “north star” in AI.
00:09:56 — Creating ImageNet
Li builds a massive image database that transforms computer vision research.
00:13:29 — Defining 30,000 Visual Concepts
How cognitive science helped shape ImageNet’s massive scale.
00:16:41 — Building the Dataset by Hand
Li's team uses global crowdsourcing to label millions of images.
00:19:38 — The 2012 Breakthrough
Jeff Hinton’s neural network shatters records and sparks the deep learning era.
00:22:19 — Data Meets Hardware
Li reflects on how big data and GPUs converged to power modern AI.
00:24:55 — Lightning Round with Fei-Fei Li
Quick insights on resilience, mentorship, and the future of human-AI collaboration.

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