Full Program


Wednesday, June 10, 2009
7:00:-9:00P	Rising Stars Award Reception-The Study at Yale Hotel (The Gallery)
Thursday, June 11, 2009
7:30-8:30A Branford College Dining Hall (2nd Floor)	*Networking Breakfast-Branford College Dining Hall, 74 High Street (York Street Entrance Gate)*
8:30-8:45A	*Proceed from Branford College to Linsley Chittenden (LC), 63 High Street*
8:45-9:00A Linsley Chittenden Room 101	*Welcome: Millstein Center* *Opening Remarks-Sharon Oster, Dean, Yale School of Management*
9:00-10:30A Linsley Chittenden Room 101	*Plenary 1: What is the proper balance between regulation and private sector initiatives to restore trust in the market system?* Moderator: Ira Millstein, Senior Associate Dean for Corporate Governance, Yale SOM; Senior Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP. Discussants: William Donaldson, Chairman, Donaldson Enterprises; Fmr. Chairman, SEC; Founding Dean, Yale SOM William Goetzmann, Edwin J. Beinecke Professor of Finance and Management Studies and Director, International Center for Finance, Yale SOM Mats Isaksson, Head, Corporate Affairs Division, Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development
10:30A-12:00P Linsley Chittenden Room 101	*Plenary 2: Has the public corporation model been under challenge from the current crisis? Are there lessons from private equity?* Moderator: Andrew Metrick, Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Corporate Governance, Yale School of Management Discussants: Rich Ferlauto, Director, Corporate Governance and Pension Investment, AFSCME Suzanne Hopgood, Director, Board Advisory Services, NACD Ronald W. Masulis, Frank K. Houston Professor of Finance, Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University Thomas Werlen, Group General Counsel, Novartis International AG
12:00-1:15P Branford College Dining Hall	*Lunch-Branford College Dining Hall, 74 High Street (High Street Entrance Gate)*
1:15-1:30P	*Proceed from Branford College to Linsley Chittenden, 63 High Street*
1:30-3:00P	*Focus Panels (A) - Linsley Chittenden, 63 High Street*
Focus Panel 1 Linsley Chittenden Room 101	*Should independent chairmen be the default board leadership model?* Moderator: Stephen Davis, Senior Fellow and Lecturer, Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance, Yale SOM Discussants: Ed Kangas, Former Global Chairman and CEO, Deloitte & Touche LLP Stuart Levine, CEO, Stuart Levine & Associates William McCracken, Chairman of the Board of Directors, CA, Inc. Jennifer Salopek, Chairman, Board of Directors, Charlotte Russe Holdings, Inc.
Focus Panel 2 Linsley Chittenden Room 102	What effect did the financial crisis have on this year’s proxy season, if any? What is the long-term impact of the crisis on shareholder governance responsibilities? Moderator: Meredith Miller, Assistant Treasurer for Policy, State of CT Discussants: Kenneth Bertsch, Executive Director, Corporate Governance, Morgan Stanley Invest. Abe Friedman, Managing Director, Gloabal Head of Corporate Governacne & Proxy Voting, Barclays Mark Preisinger, Director or Corporate Governance, The Coca-Cola Company Ann Yerger, Executive Director, Council of Institutional Investors
Focus Panel 3 Linsley Chittenden Room 211	*Developments in financial reporting and disclosure: Impact on public company governance* Moderator: Nicole Sandford, Partner, Corporate Governance Services, Deloitte & Touche LLP Discussants: Diane Larsen, Audit Partner, Providence Office Managing Partner, Ernst & Young Catherine Bromilow, Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers Thomas Quaadman, Executive Director for Financial Reporting Policy and Investor Opportunity, Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Shyam Sunder, James L. Frank Professor of Accounting, Economics and Finance, Yale SOM
Focus Panel 4 Linsley Chittenden Room 317	*How has the crisis affected the forward strategies of value funds, hedge funds and private equity? How have they altered their strategies?* Moderator: Teresa Barger, CEO Cartica Capital LLC Discussants: Curtis Jensen, Co-Chief Investment Officer, Third Avenue Management Hilton McCann, Senior Vice President, Abraaj Capital David Nierenberg, President, Nierenberg Investment Management Company Andrew Shapiro, President, Lawndale Capital Management
3:00-3:30P	*Coffee Break*
3:30–5:00P	*Focus Panels (B), Linsley Chittenden, 63 High Street*
Focus Panel 5 Linsley Chittenden Room 101	*The role of institutional investors in restoring trust.* Moderator: Anne Simpson, Senior Portfolio Manager for Corporate Governance,CalPERS Discussants: Peter Butler, CEO, Governance for Owners LLP Catherine Jackson, Manager, Corporate Governance & Proxy Voting Ontario Teacher’s Pension Fund Keith Johnson, Head of Institutional Investor Legal Services, Reinhart Boerner Van Deuren Anne Sheehan,Director of Corporate Governance, California State Teachers’ Retirement System (CalSTRS)
Focus Panel 6 Linsley Chittenden Room 102	*Can boards actually oversee risk management?* Moderator: Edward Waitzer, Partner, Stikeman Elliot LLP Discussants: Peter Gleason, Managing Director & CFO, National Association of Corporate Directors Reatha Clark King, Former President & Board Chair, General Mills Foundation George Vojta, Chairman, Millstein Center Advisory Board; Founder, eStandards Forum Steve Wagner, Managing Partner, Deloitte LLP’s US Center for Corporate Governance
Focus Panel 7 Linsley Chittenden Room 317	Are the “New Principles of Corporate Governance” an alternative to governance ratings? Will boards simplify and develop their own efficient governance processes? Moderator: Holly Gregory, Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges Discussants: Sean Egan, Managing Director, Egan-Jones Ratings Company Margaret Foran, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, and Corporate Secretary, Sara Lee Corporation Hye-Won Choi, Senior Vice President & Head of Corporate Governance,TIAA-CREF Mark Terrell, Board Member & Former Chairman, Comverse Technology Inc.
Focus Panel 8 Linsley Chittenden Room 211	Do we need to modernize proxy voting? Moderator: Richard Koppes, Of Counsel Jones Day Discussants: MaryEllen Andersen, V.P., Institutional & Corporate Relations, Broadridge Financial Solutions, Inc. Steve Harvey, Head of Corporate Governance, RiskMetrics Group KT Rabin, Chief Executive Officer, Glass Lewis Arthur Rosenzweig, President, Mediant Communications LLC
6:15-6:30P	*Shuttle service from The Study at Yale Hotel to the New Haven Lawn Club*
6:30-9:30P 8:00P-8:15P	*Cocktail Reception & Dinner* -The New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Avenue Key Note Speaker: John Rogers, Chief Executive Officer, CFA Institute
8:30P-8:45P	Research Foundation of CFA Institute presents Robert Shiller, Arthur M. Okun Professor of Economics, Department of Economics and Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, and Professor of Finance and Fellow at the International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management with the James R. Vertin Award .
8:15-9:30P	*Shuttle service from New Haven Lawn Club to The Study at Yale Hotel*
Friday, June 12, 2009
7:30-8:15 A	*Networking Breakfast-Branford College Dining Hall, 74 High Street*
8:15-8:30 A	*Proceed from Branford College to Yale Art Gallery Lecture Hall, 1111 Chapel Street (corner of York Street)*
8:30-9:30 A	*Quick Summaries from Focus Panels*
9:30-11:00A Linsley Chittenden Room 101	*Plenary 3: Government as shareholder of or lender to public corporations: What is the government’s role?* Moderator: Jonathan Koppell, Faculty Director, Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance, Yale SOM Discussants: Steve Odland, Chairman & CEO Office Depot Damon Silvers, Associate General Counsel for the AFL-CIO and Member of the U.S. Congressional Oversight Panel * J.W. Verret, Assistant Professor, George Mason University School of Law
11:00-12:30P Linsley Chittenden Room 101	*Plenary 4: Will the crisis help or hinder the integration of the global financial markets?* Moderator: Jeff Sonnenfeld, Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management & Senior Associate Dean, Executive Programs, Yale SOM Discussants: Hasung Jang, Dean, Korea University Business School Marcos Pinto, Commissioner, Securities and Exchanges Commission of Brazil James Shinn, Lecturer, Princeton University John Sullivan, Executive Director, CIPE
12:30-1:00P Linsley Chittenden Room 101	Forum Summary
12:30-2:30P	Shuttle services to New Haven Train Station
1:00-2:00P	*Lunch-Branford Dining Hall, 74 High Street (High Street Entrnace Gate)*
2:00-4:30P	Millstein Center Advisory Board Meeting-The Study Hotel (Closed Meeting)

Note: * denotes participants have not confirmed.

Wednesday, June 10, 2009

Thursday, June 11, 2009

Friday, June 12, 2009