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A corporate governance seminar series will bring some of the nation’s leading executives, jurists, academics and journalists to the University of Delaware campus throughout the spring semester.
The series is part of the course “Advanced Corporate Governance,” which is offered by Charles Elson, Edgar S. Woolard Jr. Chair and director of the Center for Corporate Governance.
The course meets twice a week, with panel discussions featuring the national experts scheduled 9:30 to 10:45 a.m. Thursdays, beginning Feb. 14, in 125 MBNA America Hall.
Members of the community are invited to attend. Please call 831-6157 in advance to make sure space is available.
“We have a tremendous group of speakers and believe they will provide a lively discussion of issues central to corporate governance,” Elson said.
The first panel on Feb. 14 will discuss who owns the corporation, the stakeholders or the shareholders. Panelists are David Brown, partner, Alston & Bird; Jim Kristie, editor, Directors & Boards magazine; Steven Lamb, vice chancellor, Delaware Court of Chancery; Larry Mitchell, professor, George Washington University Law School; and Gil Sparks, partner, Morris, Nichols, Arsht & Tunnell.
The March 14 panel will discuss executive overcompensation and will feature E. Webb Bassick of the Hay Group; John Bogle, founder of the Vanguard Group; Jamie Heard, chief executive officer of Institutional Shareholder Services; Justice Randy Holland of the Delaware Supreme Court; Charles Yablon, professor, Cardoza Law School; and Ira Zar, chief financial officer of Computer Associates.
Corporate democracy will be the topic March 21. Panelists will be Frank Byrd, New York City Public Employees Pension Fund; Mark Goldfus, senior vice president and general counsel, Merrill Lynch & Co.; Michael Goldman, partner, Potter Anderson & Coroon; G. Penn Holsenbeck, vice president and corporate secretary, Philip Morris; Vice Chancellor Jack Jacobs, Delaware Court of Chancery; and Mark Preisinger, director, share owner affairs, Coca-Cola.
On April 18, the topic will be shareholder litigation, and panelists will be Tom Allingham, partner, Skadden, Arps; Jay Eisenhofer, principal and founding partner, Grant & Eisenhofer; Keith Johnson, general counsel, State of Wisconsin Investment Board; Barbara Franklin, president and chief executive officer, Barbara Franklin Enterprises; Ed Labaton, partner, Goodkind Labaton Rudoff & Sucharow; Walter Ricciardi, general counsel, PricewaterhouseCoopers; Vice Chancellor Leo Strine, Delaware Court of Chancery; and Robert Thompson, professor, Vanderbilt University School of Law.
Corporate governance guidelines will be the topic April 25. Panelists will be Warren Anderson, attorney, General Motors; Justice Carolyn Burger, Delaware Supreme Court; Peter Clapman, general counsel, TIAA-CREF; Ken Novack, vice chairman, AOL Time Warner; Nils Okeson, partner, Alston & Bird; John Olson, senior partner, Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
The final session May 9 will be on the role of the dissident director. Panelists will be Guy Adams, president, GWA Capital; Frank Balotti, partner, Richards, Finger & Layton; Chancellor William Chandler, Delaware Court of Chancery; Edward Lampert, chief executive officer, ESL Investments; Morris Offit, chief executive officer and founder, Offitbank; Robin Sidel, reporter, Wall Street Journal; Larry Sonsini, senior partner, Wilson Sonsini; Raymond Troubh, director or former director of a number of corporations including Enron, Time Warner and America West Airlines.
Feb. 12, 2002
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