Full Program

June 15 2011

Pre-Forum

1:00-4:00P

Millstein Center Advisory Board Meeting ( for Board members only-closed session)-The Study Hotel-Gallery Room

6:30P-7:30P 

Shuttle Service: The Study Hotel, 1157 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT to St. Thomas More, 268 Park Street, New Haven, CT

7:00-9:00P

Rising Stars of Corporate Governance Award Ceremony and Cocktail Reception-
St. Thomas More, 268 Park Street

8:30P-9:30P  Shuttle Service: St. Thomas More, 268 Park Street, New Haven, CT to The Study Hotel, 1157 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT

 

Day 1
June 16 2011

Day 1 June 16 2011

7:15-8:30A

Shuttle from The Study Hotel to Yale Law School

7:30-8:30A

Breakfast
Yale Law School Dining Hall, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT

8:30 - 8:45A
Yale Law School
Room TBD

Welcome Remarks -Yale Law School, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT

  • Sharon Oster, Dean, Yale School of Management

 

8:45-10:15 AM
Yale Law School
Room TBD

Plenary 1
What is Short Term? A Conversation Retesting Assumptions

Moderator: Andrew Metrick, Deputy Dean for Faculty Development and Michael H. Jordan Professor of Finance and Management, Yale School of Management

  • Richard Davies,Economist, Financial Stability, Financial Institutions Division, Bank fo England
  • Jeffrey Kindler, Former CEO, Pfizer
  • Ira Millstein, Theodore Nierenberg Adjunct Professor of Corporate Governance and Senior Associate Dean for Corporate Governance, Yale School of Management
  • Jim Millstein, Former Chief Restructuring Officer, US Department of the Treasury

 

10:15-10:45 pm

Coffee Break
Yale Law School Dining Hall, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT

10:45-12:15 PM
Yale Law School
Room TBD

Plenary 2
Can Investors Behave Long Term?

Moderator: Marco Becht, Professor of Finance and Economics at University Libre de Bruxelles

  • Keith Ambachtsheer, Director, Rotman International Centre for Pension Management, University of Toronto
  • Holly Gregory, Partner, Weil Gotshal & Manges
  • Anne Simpson, Senior Portfolio Manager, Investments & Global Equity, CalPERS
  • Marty Whitman, Chairman & Co-Portfolio Manager, Third Avenue Value Fund

 

 

 

12:15 -1:30 pm

Lunch
Yale Law School Dining Hall, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT

 

 


 

1:30-3:00 pm
Yale Law School
Room TBD

Plenary 3
Corporate Governance Challenges Worldwide

Moderator: Jim Shinn, Visiting Lecturer, Princeton University

  • Mahmood Ahmad, Vice President Board Relations, Du (Emirates Integrated Telecommunications)
  • Peter Dehnen, Principal, GermanBoardRoom
  • Mike Lubrano, Managing Director, Cartica Capital
  • Eliane Aleixo Lustosa, Partner, Triscorp Investimentos (Brazil)

3:00-3:30 pm

Coffee Break
Yale Law School Dining Hall, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT


BREAKOUTS
3:30 pm -5:00 pm
Yale Law School
Room TBD

Long Term Drivers: Focus Session 1
Is the Corporate Secretary the Key to Board Effectiveness and Investor Dialogue?

Moderator: Nicole Sandford, Partner, Deloitte

  • Ken Bertsch, CEO, Society of Corporate Secretaries and Corporate Governance Professionals
  • Lisa Fairfax, Professor of Law, George Washington University
  • Rebecca Farrell, Secretary, Westpac Banking Corporation
  • David Jackson, Company Secretary, BP

 

Yale Law School
Room TBD

Long Term Drivers: Focus Session 2
Governance in the Cloud: Short Term Social Media for Long Term Gain

Moderator: Fay Feeney, CEO, Risk for Good

  • Doug Chia, Assistant General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, Johnson & Johnson
  • Richard Ferlauto, Deputy Director of Policy, SEC
  • Eric Jackson, Managing Member, Ironfire Capital
  • Lucy Marcus, CEO, Marcus Venture Consulting
  • Dina Mayzlin, Associate Professor of Marketing, Yale SOM

 

Yale Law School
Room TBD

Long Term Drivers: Focus Session 3
Governance Lessons from the Crisis: What Works? What Doesn't?

Moderator: David Nierenberg, President, Nierenberg Investment Management Company and Advisory Board Chairman, Millstein Center

  • Martijn Cremers, Associate Professor of Finance, Yale School of Management
  • Ben Heineman, First Distinguished Fellow, Harvard Law School
  • Marshall Huebner, Co-head, Insolvency and Restructuring Group, DavisPolk
  • Andrew Ross Sorkin, Columnist, New York Times

 


Yale Law School
Room TBD

Long Term Drivers: Focus Session 4
Building 'Say on Pay' into Value Creation: the Case of Occidental

Moderator: Jesse Fried, Professor of Law, Harvard Law School

  • Donald de Brier, Executive Vice President, General Counsel, Occidental
  • Fabrizio Ferri, Visiting Assistant Professor of Accounting, New York University Stern School of Business
  • Anne Sheehan, Director of Corporate Governance, CalSTRS

 

5:00-5:30pm

Shuttle from The Yale Law School to the Study Hotel

6:00-6:30 pm

Shuttle from The Study Hotel to the New Haven Lawn Club

6:30 - 9:30 pm

Cocktail Reception and Dinner
New Haven Lawn Club, 193 Whitney Avenue, New Haven, CT

A conversation on "Corporate Boards, Internalizing Energy Risk"

T. Boone Pickens, Founder, BP Capital Management and 
Ira Millstein, Senior Associate Dean for Corporate Governance, Yale SOM

 

8:30-10:00pm

Shuttle from New Haven Lawn Club to The Study Hotel

 

 


Day� 2
June 17 2011

Day 2 June 17 2011

7:15-8:30am

Shuttle from The Study Hotel to Yale Law School

7:30-8:30 am

Breakfast
Yale Law School Dining Hall, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT
Focus Panel Summaries

 

8:30-9:15 am
Yale Law School
Room TBD

Introduction: Kurt Schacht, Managing Director, CFA Institute

Keynote Speech: Jules Kroll, Chairman and Co-Founder, K2 Global Consulting, LLC

"Breaking the Hold on Rating Agencies"

 

9:15-10:45 am
Yale Law School Room TBD

Plenary 4
What is Corporate Governance For?

Moderator: Stephen Davis, Executive Director, Millstein Center

  • Kerstin Jorna, Deputy Head of Cabinet of Commissioner Barnier for Internal Market and Services, European Commission
  • Bernadette Kelly, Director General, Market Frameworks, UK Department of Business, Innovation & Skill
  • Greg Lau, Executive Director of Corporate Govenance, General Motors

 

10:45-11:00 pm

Coffee Break
Yale Law School Dining Hall, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT


11:00 -12:30 pm
Yale Law School Room TBD

Plenary 5
Making Independent Board Leadership Work for the Long Term

Moderator: Elise Walton, Principal, Organization and Governance Consulting, LLC

  • Tom Glocer, CEO, Thomson Reuters
  • Geoff Beattie, Deputy Chair, Thomson Reuters
  • Lynn Stout, Paul Hastings Professor of Securities and Corporate Law, UCLA School of Law

 

12:30 -1:45 pm

Lunch
Yale Law School Dining Hall, 127 Wall Street, New Haven, CT


1:45 pm -3:15 pm
Yale Law School
Room TBD

Plenary 6
Next Frontiers in Board Effectiveness

Moderator: Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Senior Associate Dean for Executive Programs and Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management, Yale SOM

  • Carol Hansell, Senior Partner, Davies Ward Phillips & Vineberg
  • Suzanne Nora Johnson, Director, Pfizer
  • Pedro Matos, Assistant Professor of Finance and Business Economics, USC Marshall School of Business
  • Bill Owens, Non-Executive Chair, CenturyLink
  • Sarah Teslik, Senior Vice President Policy and Governance, Apache

 

3:15-3:20PM
Yale Law School Room TBD

Farewell Remarks
Stephen Davis, Executive Director, Millstein Center

3:20-3:50pm

Shuttle from Yale Law School to Union Train Station and Study Hotel