Smith Business Close-Up
Smith Business Close-Up is co-produced by the Robert H. Smith School of
Business and Maryland Public Television. The television segment focuses on the latest thinking in business management,
and features in-depth interviews with Smith School faculty and other members of
the school’s community of business leaders.
February 2012
Dealing
with Difficult Co-Workers

Have you ever worked with someone you might consider “difficult?”
Chances are good that someone fitting this description springs to mind.
As it turns out, these aren’t just people with whom you may have a
personality conflict. The key distinction that separates “difficult”
co-workers from the merely “annoying” is their effect on job
performance.
January 2012
Housing
Outlook: 2012

In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Maryland’s
Robert H. Smith School of Business, Clifford Rossi, executive-in-residence of
finance, shares his prognosis for the housing market for the year ahead.
Global
Innovation

With the economic struggles worldwide, leaders point to innovation
and entrepreneurship as answer for growth and new opportunities. How can
still developing economies, such as China, and even other players,
including Israel, foster global innovation that can help grow the
economy here at home?
Where to watch
Smith Business Close-Up can be seen bi-weekly on Maryland Public
Television's Your Business and Money. The program airs at 7:30 p.m. on
Thursdays and is repeated the following Sunday at 7:30 a.m. and Monday at 4:30
a.m. on public television stations throughout Maryland and the Washington, D.C.,
metropolitan region, including:
- WMPB-TV (Ch. 67), Baltimore
- WMPT-TV (Ch. 22), DC metro/Annapolis
- WCPB-TV (Ch. 28), Salisbury
- WFPT-TV (Ch. 62), Frederick
- WWPB-TV (Ch. 31), Hagerstown
- WGPT-TV (Ch. 36), Oakland