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Hybrids: Entrepreneurs Must Lead People from Radically Different Sectors

By Kim Smith - Stanford
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Lecture Description

Kim Smith, co-founder and CEO of NewSchools Venture Fund, is a leader in a hybrid environment between business people and educators, who speak different languages and come from different frameworks. A hybrid in this context includes the public sector, non-public sector and business sector. It is difficult to manage a group that comes from such diverse backgrounds, says Smith. A lot of technology companies have to deal with the same sort of dynamic between technologists and business people.

Course Index

  1. Hybrids: Entrepreneurs Must Lead People from Radically Different Sectors
  2. Founding of Teach for America: Entrepreneurs Envision What Others Say is Impossible
  3. A Theory of Change = Business Model + Strategy
  4. Focus
  5. Hybrid Leaders
  6. Education: Shift From Culture of Compliance to Culture of Performance
  7. Venture Philanthropy
  8. New School Venture Fund History and Operations
  9. New School Portfolio
  10. Strategic Investment Analysis Via a Hybrid Partner Group
  11. Leadership, Communication, and Facilitation Skills
  12. Taking Risks
  13. Achieving Profits Through Customer Focus