Smith Business Close-Up: Leading Complex Organizations
Thursday, Jan. 20, 2011, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011,
7:30 a.m.; Monday, Jan. 24, 2011, 4:30 a.m.
Leading Complex Organizations
With so many public and private-sector organizations becoming
increasingly large and complex, what can senior leaders do to align
their people around the organizations’ goals?
In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of
Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business, Hugh Courtney discusses
leadership in increasingly complex organizations.
Courtney is vice dean of the Smith School and Professor of the
Practice of Strategy in its Executive MBA program, which the Financial
Times recently ranked #1 for corporate strategy in the world. Courtney’s
publications on business strategy and competitive dynamics have been
featured in leading practitioner journals such as the Harvard Business
Review, McKinsey Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Optimize,
Research Technology Management and Strategy & Leadership. His book on
strategy under uncertainty, “20/20 Foresight: Crafting Strategy in an
Uncertain World,” was a business bestseller on Amazon.com.
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.
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
