
ITM682 - Belhaven University Lectures
This graduate seminar examines how technology ventures scale with integrity, focusing on stewardship, ethical leadership, organizational design, and responsible AI use. It uses an integrative framework to explore early growth decisions, sustainable scaling, governance, and the moral formation of leaders. Students work to develop strategic coherence that aligns innovation, ethics, and long-term flourishing in technology-driven enterprises.
Episodes

ITM682 - Lecture 7
This concluding lecture synthesizes strategy, ethics, artificial intelligence, and stewardship into an integrative leadership framework. It emphasizes coherent alignment and wisdom as essential to scaling ventures that endure.

ITM682 - Lecture 6
This lecture distinguishes sustainable growth from extractive growth by examining capacity, multidimensional risk, and organizational resilience. It frames foresight, planning, and stewardship as foundations for enduring ventures.

ITM682 - Lecture 5
This session explores artificial intelligence as a force multiplier in growing ventures, analyzing risks such as bias, opacity, and model drift. It emphasizes governance, human oversight, and responsibility as core leadership obligations.

ITM682 - Lecture 4
This lecture examines the ethical complexity introduced by scaling, emphasizing stewardship, wisdom, and character formation over compliance-based ethics. It highlights how growth amplifies moral risk and tests leadership accountability.

ITM682 - Lecture 3
This lecture focuses on organizational design as a strategic tool for growth, highlighting the alignment of strategy, structure, and culture. It explores how intentional design supports coordination, accountability, and value preservation during scaling.

ITM682 - Lecture 2
This session contrasts outcome-driven leadership models with a stewardship-based approach grounded in humility, justice, and accountability. It examines how values must be embedded into systems as organizations scale to preserve integrity and human dignity.

ITM682 - Lecture 1
This lecture analyzes the paradox of early growth in technology ventures, emphasizing how premature scaling, misread network effects, and timing risk can undermine long-term viability. It frames early growth as a leadership challenge requiring discernment, alignment, and stewardship rather than speed alone.
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