Smith Business Close-Up: Facebook IPO
Thursday, March 1, 2012, 7:30 p.m.; Sunday, March 4, 2012,
7:30 a.m.
Estimates are pegging Facebook’s current valuation at $100 billion
with its initial public offering coming up this spring. The social media
giant will no doubt have the year’s most talked about IPO, but is it a
good deal?
In this edition of Smith Business Close-Up with the University of Maryland’s
Robert H. Smith School of Business, Gerard Hoberg talks about Facebook’s
impending initial public offering.
Hoberg is an associate professor of finance at the University of Maryland’s
Robert H. Smith School of Business. His research includes studying corporate
finance, security issuance, payout policy, industrial organization and empirical
asset pricing. His recent work in IPOs examines the role of the underwriter and
the role of prospectus disclosure in IPO pricing.
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. 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
