
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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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.
| 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
| 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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