COLLEGE PARK, Md. - Gerard Hoberg, associate professor of finance for the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland, is available to discuss how the anticipated Facebook IPO will affect the company and discuss the factors that would make Facebook or any IPO a good investment vehicle. The IPO filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission would be followed by Facebook’s initial public offering in about three months.

The University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business will host “X-Treme Management: Managing in Times of Crisis,” Feb. 16-18, 2012.

COLLEGE PARK, Md. - With the Eastman Kodak Company filing for bankruptcy, the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland offers experts for related commentary. The Smith School has an in-house facility for live or taped interviews via fiber-optic line for television or multimedia content. Kodak: Too Little, Too Late

Media Alert: Jan. 19, 2012 COLLEGE PARK, Md. - With the Eastman Kodak Company filing for bankruptcy, the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland offers experts for related commentary. The Smith School has an in-house facility for live or taped interviews via fiber-optic line for television or multimedia content.

Media Alert: Jan. 18, 2012Attention: Financial and Economic Reporters/Editors UMD Business Experts Available to Comment on Insourcing Jobs; Federal Reserve Call for Action on Housing College Park, MD - Finance and management faculty experts at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business weigh in on developments from recent proposals by the Federal Reserve and Obama Administration to boost the national economy. The Smith School has an in-house facility for live or taped interviews via fiber-optic line for television or multimedia content.

Media Alert: Jan. 18, 2012Attention: Financial and Economic Reporters/Editors UMD Business Experts Available to Comment on Insourcing Jobs; Federal Reserve Call for Action on Housing College Park, MD - Finance and management faculty experts at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business weigh in on developments from recent proposals by the Federal Reserve and Obama Administration to boost the national economy. The Smith School has an in-house facility for live or taped interviews via fiber-optic line for television or multimedia content.

Released in January 2012, Sunil Mithas’ new book, “Digital Intelligence: What Every Smart Manager Must Have for Success in an Information Age,” lays out the information you need to know about IT to succeed in business.

The University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business in partnership with the School of Public Policy is pleased to present the Eighth Annual Forum on Financial Information Systems and Cybersecurity: A Public Policy Perspective on Wednesday, January 18, 2012. The forum is intended to encourage the exchange of ideas among a small group of researchers and executives who share a common interest in issues related to financial information systems and cybersecurity.

The annual Top 10 Summer Reading List for Business Leaders – as recommended by Robert H. Smith School of Business faculty and staff - is several and months and a change-of-season away. Perhaps something to whet reader appetites for the 2012 summer list, a few Smith leaders reflected on books they have recently read and recommend for winter reading. The following selections cover "behavioral" economics and finance, “dark” secrets of the Internet, the revolutionary effect of the shipping container, social media as a driver of social change, and more.