Tuesday, March 6, 2018, 8:15 AM to 4:30 PM @Clayton Hall, University of Delaware :
Co-sponsored with the Department of Finance, Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics
The Symposium will begin with the John L. Weinberg Distinguished Speaker:Ed Garden, Chief Investment Officer and Founding Partner, Trian Fund Management L.P.The speaker portion of the program will be from 9:30 am to 10:15 am. The speaker will be followed by a panel who will focus on the most critical governance issues for boards and investors in 2018. The Symposium will provide attendees with cutting edge governance discussion and debate.
The Panel participants are:
- Donna F. Anderson, Vice President and Head of Global Corporate Governance, T. Rowe Price
- Lydia I. Beebe, Director, Kansas City Southern and Aemetis Inc.
- Glenn Booraem, Investment Stewardship Officer, Vanguard
- Margaret (Peggy) Foran, Chief Governance Officer, Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary, Prudential Financial, Inc.
- Michael Garland, Assistant Comptroller – Corporate Governance and Responsible Investment, Office of New York City Comptroller
- David A. Katz, Partner, Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
- Patrick S. McGurn, Special Counsel and Head of Strategic Research and Analysis, Institutional Shareholder Services, Inc.
- Eric Shostal, Vice President, Investment Stewardship, BlackRock
- Myron T. Steele, Partner, Potter Anderson & Corroon, LLP; and former Chief Justice, Delaware Supreme Court
- Carol J. Ward, Vice President and Corporate Secretary, Mondelēz International Inc.
Moderator: Charles M. Elson, Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Chair of Corporate Governance, Director of the Weinberg Center and Professor of Finance
The Symposium will continue with a lunch and a luncheon speaker – a conversation with The Honorable Karen L. Valihura, Justice, Delaware Supreme Court, interviewed by Margaret (Peggy) Foran, Chief Governance Officer, Senior Vice President and Corporate Secretary, Prudential Financial, Inc.
This will be followed by the presentation of two academic papers on topics that are of critical importance to boards and institutional investors today. The academic papers being presented are:
- “Beyond the Numbers: Substantive Gender Diversity in Boardrooms,” Yaron Nili, Assistant Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School (Presenter)
Winner of Best Paper Award
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Discussant:Laura Field, Chairperson, Department of Finance, Donald J. Puglisi Professor of Finance, Alfred Lerner College of Business an Economics, University of Delaware
- “The Importance of Inferior Voting Rights in Dual-Class Firms,” Dov Solomon, Associate Professor of Corporate Law, College of Law and Business, Ramat Gan Law School (Presenter)
Discussant: Albert Choi, Albert C. BeVier Research Professor of Law, University of Virginia, School of Law
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Copy of the Call for Papers
2018 Symposium Agenda (subject to change)
Materials
1. BlackRock
- Larry Fink’s Annual Letter to CEOs – A Sense of Purpose
- BlackRock’s Proxy Voting Guidlelines for U.S. Securitties (February 2018)
2. T.Rowe Price Engagement Policy3. Vanguard
- Annual Report on Investment Stewardship (released coincident with the Chairman and CEO Letter)
- Vanguard’s An open letter to directors of public companies worldwide
4. New York City Comptroller
5. Prudential Financial, Inc.
6. Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz memos
- Some Thoughts for Board of Directors in 2018
- 2017 Takeover Law and Practice
- Corporate Governance Update – Common Sense Capitalism
- Corporate Governance Update – Cybersecueiy Must Be High on the Board Agenda
- Corporate Governance Update – Prioritizing Board Diversity
- Corporate Governance Update – Preparing for and Responding to Shareholders
- Corporate Governance Update – Activism and Board Diversity
- Corporate Governance Update – Shareholder Proposals in an Era of Reform
- Corporate Governance Update – Boards, Sexual Harassment, and Gender Diversity