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Stacey Childress, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration, Senior Researcher

Harvard University

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Stacey Childress is a Lecturer in the General Management unit at Harvard Business School, and a co-founder of the Public Education Leadership Project at Harvard University. Stacey studies entrepreneurial activity in public education in the United States. This includes the behavior and strategies of leadership teams in urban public school districts, charter schools, and nonprofit and for-profit enterprises with missions to improve the public system.  She is also interested more generally in a range of social enterprise topics, including international social entrepreneurship.

Papers on the AGI website:

January 31, 2007	Note on the PELP Coherence Framework
June 12, 2008	A Problem-Solving Approach to Designing and Implementing a Strategy to Improve Performance

Video presentations on the AGI website:

June 2008	Conceptualizing Whole-District Strategic Reform
June 2008	Discussion: Current Efforts in Suburban School Districts