2019 Corporate Governance Symposium

Wednesday, March 20, 2019, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM @Clayton Hall, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Co-sponsored with the Department of Finance, Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics

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REGISTRATION REQUIRED TO ATTEND

The focus of the 2019 Corporate Governance Symposium will be “Governance Issues of Critical Importance to Boards and Investors in 2019.” The symposium will begin with an address by our John L. Weinberg Distinguished Speaker – Indra Nooyi, Former Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, PepsiCo.

Ms. Nooyi will be followed by a Special Speaker – Robert J. Jackson, Jr., Commissioner, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.

Commissioner Jackson will be followed by a panel who will focus on the most critical governance issues for boards and investors in 2019. The confirmed panelists are:

Glenn Booraem, Investment Stewardship Officer and a principal, Vanguard
Aeisha Mastagni, Portfolio Manager, California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS).
Steve Odland, President and CEO, The Conference Board
Eric Shostal, Vice President, Investor Stewarship Team, BlackRock
Myron T. Steele, Partner, Potter Anderson & Corroon LLP; former Chief Justice, Delaware Supreme Court

Moderator: Charles M. Elson, Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., Chair of Corporate Governance; Director of the John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance; and Professor of Finance

The panel will be followed by a luncheon speaker – William D. Cohan, New York Times best-selling author, special correspondent at Vanity Fair, and a former senior Wall Street M&A investment banker at Lazard Frères & Co., Merrill Lynch and JPMorgan Chase

The presentation of academic papers on topics that are of critical importance to boards and investors will occur in the afternoon. The following papers will be presented:

“Audit Process, Private Information, and Insider Trading,” by Salman Arif, Kelley School of Business, Indiana University; John Kepler,The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania; Joseph Schroeder,Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, and Daniel Taylor, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania (Presenter)Discussant – W. Robert Knechel, Fisher School of Accounting, University of Florida

“Investors’ Attention to Corporate Governance,“ by Peter Iliev Penn State University; Jonathan Kalodimos, Oregon State University; and Michelle Lowry, Drexel University (Presenter)Discussant – Alan Crane, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University
“Investor-Driven Governance Standards and Firm Value,” by Yonca Ertimur, University of Colorado Boulder; and Paige Patrick, University of Washington (Presenter) Discussant – Fei Xie, Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics, University of Delaware
“Shareholder Voting on Golden Parachutes: Determinants and Consequences,“ by Albert H. Choi, University of Virginia Law School (Presenter); Andrew C.W. Lund, John F. Scarpa Center for Law and Entrepreneurship, Villanova University, Charles Widger School of Law; Robert Schonlau, Farmer School of Business, Miami University
Discussant – John White, Cravath, Swaine & Moore

Call for Papers

UDaily Pre-Event Article

UDaily Post-Event Article

LinkedIn post, March 20, 2019

“Delaware Should Limit Dual-Class Stock Use, SEC Commissioner Says,” Bloomberg Law, March 20, 2019 (subscription)

“Investors intensify their fight against dual-class shares,” Pensions & Investments, April 1, 2019 (subscription)

Material

1. Indra Nooyi