Corporate Governance Seminar

Scheduled Speakers

Mean Business 
Corporate Governance Overview

Thurs., Aug. 31   

Adam Bryant - Senior Writer, Newsweek

The Honorable William B. Chandler, III - Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery 

James Kristie - Editor, Directors & Boards

John M. Nash - President Emeritus and Founder, National Association of Corporate Directors 

Ned Regan - President, Baruch College; Former Comptroller, State of New York

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Stakeholders and Stockholders

Thurs., Sept. 7 

Margaret M. Blair - Senior Fellow, Brookings Institute and Visiting Professor, Georgetown University Law School

Jeff Feeley - Bloomberg News, Wilmington

James J. Hanks, Jr. - Senior Partner, Ballard, Spahr, Andrews & Ingersoll - Baltimore, MD

James E. Heard - Chairman and CEO, Proxy Monitor  

The Honorable Leo E. Strine - Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

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Executive Overcompensation

Thurs., Sept. 21 

Joseph E. Bachelder - Member, The Law Offices of Joseph E. Bachelder

The Honorable William B. Chandler, III - Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

John D. England - Principal, Global Resources Group -Towers, Perrin

Brian Hall - Associate Professor, Harvard Business School

Joann S. Lublin - Deputy Management Editor, Wall Street Journal 

Patrick McGurn - Vice President and Director of Corporate Programs, Institutional Shareholder Services 

Raymond Troubh - Director or former Director: Time/Warner; Starwood Hotels & Resorts, ADT, America West Airlines, Becton Dickinson, and various other public corporations  

Edgar S. Woolard, Jr. - Former Chairman and CEO, duPont

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Director Equity Ownership and the Duty of Care

Thurs., Sept. 28 

R. Franklin Balotti - Senior Partner, Richards, Layton & Finger - Wilmington, DE 

Sanjai Bhagat - Professor, Department of Finance, College of Business, University of Colorado at Boulder 

Dennis Carey - Vice Chairman, Spencer Stuart 

Melvin A. Eisenberg - Koret Professor, University of California at Berkeley School of Law; Columbia University School of Law  

The Honorable Jack B. Jacobs - Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

A. Gilchrist Sparks, III - Senior Partner, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell - Wilmington, DE  

The Honorable Leo E. Strine - Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

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Shareholder Resolutions

Thurs., Oct. 5 

Geoffrey Colvin - Editorial Director, Fortune

Margaret M. Foran - Vice President for Corporate Governance, Pfizer, Inc.

Lawrence A. Hamermesh - Widener University School of Law

Brian J. Lane - Partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher - Washington, D.C.; Former Director, Division of Corporate Finance, SEC 

Nell Minow - President, The Corporate Library 

The Honorable Leo E. Strine - Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

John C. Wilcox - Vice Chairman, Georgeson Shareholder Communications 

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Caremark

Thurs., Oct. 12 

The Honorable William T. Allen - Professor, New York University School of Law and Stern School of Business; "Of Counsel", Wachtell, Lipton - New York; Former Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

The Honorable Jack B. Jacobs - Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

Edward Labaton - Senior Partner, Goodkind, Labaton - New York 

Roger W. Raber - President and CEO, National Association of Corporate Directors

Alan A. Rudnick - Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, CSX Corp. 

A. Gilchrist Sparks, III - Senior Partner, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell- Wilmington, DE  

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Audit Committee Reform

Thurs., Oct. 19 

Gwenn L. Carr - Vice President & Secretary to the Board, Corporate Secretary, Metropolitan Life Insurance Co.; President, American Society of Corporate Secretaries 

John C. Coffee, Jr. - Berle Professor, Columbia University School of Law 

Scott Reed - Senior Manager, KPMG Audit Committee Institute 

The Honorable Jack B. Jacobs - Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

The Honorable Stephen P. Lamb - Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

John F. Olson - Senior Partner, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher - Washington, D.C. 

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Corporate Governance Guidelines

Thurs., Nov. 2 

Reed Abelson -Business Writer, New York Times

Warren G. Andersen - Senior Attorney, General Motors Corp.  

Daniel Bogler - New York Correspondent, Financial Times

Peter C. Clapman - Senior Vice President and Chief Counsel, Investments, TIAA-CREF 

Scott Fenn - Executive Director, Investor Responsibility Research Center

Anthony J. Horan - Corporate Secretary, The Chase Manhattan Corp. 

Richard H. Koppes - Partner, Jones, Day, Reavis & Pogue - Los Angeles, CA, Former General Counsel, CALPERS 

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Director and Managerial Accountability

Thurs., Nov. 9 

John A. Byrne - Senior Writer, Business Week  

Richard Easton - Senior Partner, Skadden, Arps Slate, Meagher & Flom - New York, NY

Blaine V. Fogg - Senior Partner, Skadden, Arps Slate, Meagher & Flom - New York, NY

Allen R. Myerson - Sunday Business Editor - New York Times 

Howard G. Kristol - Senior Partner, Reboul, MacMurray, Hewitt, Maynard & Kristol - New York, NY 

Peter A. Langerman - CEO, Franklin Mutual Advisers, Inc. 

The Honorable Stephen P. Lamb - Vice Chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery

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John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance  l  Lerner College of Business & Economics    
University of Delaware  l  Lerner Hall l Newark, DE 19716-2709  l  302.831.6157  l  302.831.3329(fax)