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Speakers & Events


2007-2008

Spring 2008

Feb. 4 John Coates (HLS)
  On Being a Corporate Lawyer
Feb. 26 John Coates (HLS) and Reinier Kraakman (HLS)
  CEO Tenure, Performance and Turnover in S&P 500 Companies
Mar. 17 Oliver Hart (Harvard)
  Hold-Up, Asset Ownership, and Reference Points
Apr. 7 Ryan Bubb (Harvard)
  Joint Ownership
Apr. 15 Howell Jackson and Mark Roe (HLS)
  Public and Private Enforcement of Securities Laws: Resource-Based Evidence

 

Fall 2007

Sep. 17 Efraim Benmelech (Harvard)
  Vintage Capital and Credit Protection
Sep. 25 Andrei Shleifer (Harvard)
  The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins
Oct. 1 Michael Barry (Grant & Eisenhofer)
  Shareholder-Adopted Bylaws
Oct. 9 Richard Climan (Cooley Godward), Faiza Saeed (Cravath), Leigh Walton (Bass Berry)
  The Merger Agreement as a Contract II
Oct. 15 Annaliese Kambour and Michael Del Nin (Time Warner)
  Spin-offs, Activism, Taxes
  Video
Oct. 15 Lance Lindblom (Nathan Cummings Foundation)
  The Power of the Proxy
  Video
Oct. 15 Chenggang Xu (London School of Economics)
  Does Financial Regulation Matter? Market Volatility and the U.S. 1933/34 Acts
Oct. 29 Michael Jensen (Harvard Business School) and Werner Erhard
  Integrity: A Positive Model that Incorporates the Normative Phenomena of Morality, Ethics, and Legality
Oct. 30 Matthew Mark (Jet Capital Management)
  Hedge Fund Activism
  Video
Nov. 5 Martha Carter (RiskMetrics Group)
  Accountability and Engagement
  Video
Nov. 5 Mark Ramseyer (HLS)
  Public and Private Firm Compensation Compared: Evidence from Japanese Tax Returns
Nov. 6 Lucian Bebchuk (HLS)
  CEO Centrality
Nov. 6 Ben Heineman (WilmerHale, HLS, Harvard Kennedy School)
  Corporate Integrity and Corporate Performance
  Video
Nov. 12 Hal Scott (HLS)
Nov. 12 Robert Monks (Lens Governance Advisors), Sophie L’helias (Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law), and Anne Simpson (International Corporate Governance Network)
  Video
Nov. 13 Eileen Nugent (Skadden Arps), John Finley (Simpson), Bob Friedman (Blackstone), and Lou D'Ambrosio (Avaya)
  Private Equity Buy-outs
  Video
Nov. 13 Toby Myerson (Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP)
  Video
Nov. 19 David Katz (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), Richard Hall (Cravath), Scott Simpson (Skadden Arps)
  Quick Look at a Cross-Border Deal
  Video
Nov. 20 William Ackman (Pershing Square Capital), Roy Katzovic (Pershing Square Capital), Sy Lorne (Millennium Capital), Robert Knapp (Ironsides Partners LLC)
  Hedge Fund Activism II
  Video
Nov. 26 Martin Lipton (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz)
  Future of M&A
  Video
Nov. 27 Ted Mirvis, Paul Rowe, Andy Brownstein (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz)
  Video
Nov. 28 John Wilcox (TIAA-CREF) and Stanley Keller (Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge LLP)
  The Nomination and Election of Directors
  Video
Nov. 29 Justice Jack Jacobs (Delaware Supreme Court)
  Delaware's Takeover Law
  Audio
Dec. 3 Robin Greenwood (Harvard Business School)
  Hedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers
Dec. 4 Eric Roiter (Fidelity) and Isaac Corré (Eton Park Capital Management)
  The Role and Rights of Shareholders
  Video
Dec. 4 Guhan Subramanian (HLS)
  Go-Shops vs. No-Shops: Evidence and Implications

2006-2007

Spring 2007

Feb. 6 Yair Listokin (Yale Law School)
  Management Always Wins the Close Ones
Feb. 27 Guhan Subramanian (Harvard Law School)
  The Power of Takeover Defenses
Mar. 6 Allen Ferrell (Harvard Law School)
  Business Law as a Source of Comparative Advantage
Mar. 12 Albert Bravo (Harvard)
  Shared Control and Outcomes in Private Firms
Mar. 20 Ehud Kamar (USC Law School)
  Going-Private Decisions and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002: A Cross-Country Analysis
Apr. 9 Giacomo Ponzetto (Harvard)
  Entrepreneurship and the Boundaries of the Firm
Apr. 10 Mark Roe (Harvard Law School), and Jordan Siegal (Harvard Business School)
  Political Instability and Financial Development
Apr. 23 Antoinette Schoar (Sloan School, MIT)
  Judge-Specific Differences in Chapter 11 and Firm Outcomes

 

Fall 2006

Sep. 18 Andrei Shleifer (Harvard University)
  Debt Enforcement Around the World
Sep. 25 Urs Peyer (Chicago School of Business & INSEAD)
  Weak Shareholder Rights: A Product Market Rationale
Sep. 26 Michael Barry (Grant & Eisenhofer)
  The AFSCME vs. AIG Case
Oct. 3 David Walker (Boston University)
  Financial Accounting and Corporate Behavior
Oct. 10 Richard Climan (Cooley Godward), Eileen Nugent (Skadden Arps), Lou Kling (Skadden Arps)
  The Merger Agreement As A Contract
  Video
Oct. 16 Enrico Perotti (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
  Investor Protection and Entry
Oct. 18 Richard Parsons (CEO, Time Warner), Gene Sykes (Goldman Sachs), Bruce Wasserstein (CEO, Lazard Ltd.), Paul Cappuccio (VP, Time Warner)
  Spinoffs and Break-ups: Icahn & Time Warner
  Video, Photos
Oct. 30 Oliver Hart (Harvard University)
  Contracts as Reference Points
Oct. 31 Daniel Burch (CEO, MacKenzie Partners), Alan Miller (Co-Chairman, Innisfree M&A), Joele Frank (Managing Partner, Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher), Dan Stoller (Skadden, Arps)
  Proxy Fights: How Do They Really Work?
  Video
Oct. 31 Isaac Corré (Eton Park Capital Management)
  Hedge Fund Activism
Nov. 6 Lucian Bebchuk (HLS), Martijn Cremers (Yale School of Management), and Urs Peyer (Chicago School of Business & INSEAD)
  Pay Distribution in the Top Executive Team
Nov. 6 Guhan Subramanian (Harvard Law School)
  Bargaining in the Shadow of the Pill
Nov. 7 Geoffrey Miller (NYU)
  Ex Ante Choices of Law and Forum: An Empirical Analysis of Corporate Merger Agreements
Nov. 7 Ed Haldeman (CEO, Putnam Investments), Marty Lipton (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz), Jay Lorsch (Harvard Business School), Lucian Bebchuk (HLS), Josh Friedman (Canyon Capital Advisors), James C. Morphy (Sullivan & Cromwell)
  Stockholder Activisms: Has Just Say No Become Always Say Yes?
  Video, Photos
Nov. 13 Michael Weisbach (University of Illinois)
  The Financial Structure of Private Equity Firms
Nov. 13 Ben Heineman (former general counsel, General Electric)
  The Quest for High Performance with High Integrity (at GE)
Nov. 14 Robert A.G. Monks (Lens Governance Advisors)
  Corporate Governance and Value
  Video
Nov. 14 Lucian Bebchuk (HLS)
  Lucky CEOs
Nov. 20 Mario Gamboa (Harvard University)
  Bankruptcy, Litigation and Resolution of Distress
Nov. 21 Marshall Cohen (Brock & Blackwell), Rob Spatt (Simpson Thacher & Bartlett), Robert Kindler (Morgan Stanley), Paul Rowe (Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz)
  Special Transaction Committees: How (and how well) do they work?
  Video
Nov. 27 Peter Atkins (Skadden, Arps)
  The Future of M&A: A Look Forward From Here
  Video, Photos
Nov. 30 Isaac Corré (Eton Capital Management), Robert Mendelsohn (former CEO, Royal Sun), Greg Taxin (CEO, Glass Lewis), Damon Silvers (Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO)
  Shareholder Rights and Roles
  Video, Photos
Dec. 4 Reinier Kraakman (Harvard Law School)
  CEO Tenure, Performance, and Turnover
Dec. 5 Tom Baker & Sean Griffith (University of Connecticut Law School)
  D&O Insurance, Corporate Governance, and Securities Litigation
Dec. 5 Joseph Bachelder (Bachelder Law Offices)
  Executive Compensation – Joseph Bachelder's perspective

 

2005-2006

Spring 2006

Feb. 21 Vikramaditya Khanna
  The Economic History of the Corporate Form in Ancient India
Feb. 28 Assaf Hamdani and Reinier Kraakman
  Rewarding Outside Directors
Mar. 6 Kenneth Ayotte
  Asset-Backed Securities: Costs and Benefits of “Bankruptcy Remoteness”
Mar. 7 Jonathan Macey
  Getting the Word Out About Fraud: A Theoretical Analysis of Whistle-blowing and Insider Trading
Mar. 20 Christopher Snyder
  Targeting Employees for Corporate Crime and Forbidding Their Indemnification
May 1 Mark Garamaise
  The Effects of Non-competition Agreements on Executive Compensation and Firm Investment

 

Fall 2005

Sep. 21 Robert Monks
  Capitalism Without Owners will Fail
Sep. 26 Joseph Bachelder
  Executive Compensation - Joseph Bachelder's Perspective
  Video Presentation
Sep. 26 Ravi Singh
  Board Independence and the Design of Executive Compensation
Oct. 3 Dennis C. Mueller
  The Effects of Ownership Concentration and Identity on Investment performance
Oct. 5 Robert Mendelsohn
  US and UK Corporate Governance
  Video Presentation
Oct. 10 Luigi Zingales
  The Corporate Governance Role of the Media
Oct. 17 Holger M. Mueller
  Concentrated Ownership and Labor Relations
Oct. 18 Paul Mahoney (Virginia)
  Mandatory Versus Contractual Disclosure in Securities Markets: Evidence from the 1930s
Oct. 18 Michael Carroll, Davis, Polk; William Kelly, Davis, Polk; Victor Lewkow, Cleary Gottlieb; Donald Wolfe, Potter Anderson
  The Revival of “Enhanced” Scrutiny?: Mock Oral Argument of Poison Pill Case followed by panel discussion
Nov. 3 Leo Strine, John Wilcox, John Wilson, Ted Mirvis
Panel on the Division of Power Between Shareholders and Management
Video Presentation
Nov. 4 Joseph Bachelder, Roel Campos, Byron Georgiou, Lerach Coughlin, Alan Hevesi, William Lerach, Robert Mendelsohn, Robert Monks, James Morphy, Toby Myerson, John Olson, Leo Strine, & John Wilcox
The Pros and Cons of Personal Director Liability
Video Presentation
Nov. 7 Randall Morck
  Creative Destruction and the Firm-Specific Performance
Nov. 8 Lucian Bebchuk (HLS)
  The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise
Nov. 8 David Katz, Wachtell, Lipton; Lou Kling, Skadden Arps; James Morphy, Sullivan & Cromwell; Faiza Saeed, Cravath, Swaine
  The Merger As A Contract II
Nov. 14 Bengt Holmstrom
  Corporate Governance in Context
Nov. 15 Andrei Shleifer (Harvard Economics Department)
  The Law and Economics of Self-Dealing
Nov. 21 Raghuram G. Rajan
  Creating Constituencies for Reform
Nov. 22 John Finley, Simpson Thacher; Dennis Hersch, Davis Polk; Mark Morton, Potter Anderson; Patricia Vlahakis, Wachtell, Lipton.
  Contract v. Fiduciary Duty Principles?: Deal Protections II Panel Discussion with outside speakers
Nov. 28 Daniel Wolfenzon
  Inside the Family Firm:The Role of Families in Succession Decisions and Performance
Nov. 29 Marcel Kahan (NYU)
  Hedge Funds in Corporate Governance and Corporate Control

 

2004-2005

Spring 2005

Feb. 7 Andrei Shleifer
  The Evolution of Precedent
Feb. 28 Mark Roe
  Delaware's Politics
Mar. 7 Armando Gomes & Gordon Phillips
  Why Do Public Firms Issue Public and Private Equity, Debt, and Convertibles?
Mar. 15 John Coffee
  Gatekeepers: The Role of the Professions in Corporate Governance
Mar. 21 Michael Jensen, Kevin Murphy, & Eric Wruck
  Remuneration: Where We've Been, How We Got to Here, Where are the Problems, and How to Fix Them
Apr. 11 Lucian Bebchuk & Yaniv Grinstein
  Executive Compensation and Firm Size

 

Fall 2004

Sep. 27: Lucian Bebchuk (HLS) & Zvika Neeman
  A Political Economy of Corporate Governance
Sep. 27: Graef Crystal
  The State of Executive Compensation
  Video Presenation
Oct. 5: Robert A.G. Monks
  The Future of Institutional Shareholder Activism
  Video Presentation
Oct. 5: Lucian Bebchuk (HLS), co-authored with Alma Cohen and Allen Ferrell
  What Matters in Corporate Governance?
Oct. 12: John de Figueiredo (MIT/Princeton), co-authored with Elizabeth Garrett (University of Southern California)
  Paying for Politics
Nov. 15: Josh Lerner (HBS), co-authored with Antoinette Schoar and Wan Wong
  Smart Institutions, Foolish Choices?: The Limited Partner Puzzle
Nov. 15: David Walker
  Managers' Share
Nov. 29: Antoinette Schoar (MIT), co-authored with Marianne Bertrand, Francis Kramarz, and David Thesmar
  Politically Connected CEOs and Corporate Outcomes: Evidence from France

 

2003-2004

Spring 2004

   
Feb. 3: Ronald Gilson (Stanford) & Reinier Kraakman (HLS)
  The Mechanisms of Market Efficiency Twenty Years Later: The Hindsight Bias
Feb. 9: Dirk Jenter (MIT)
  Employee Sentiment and Stock Option Compensation.
Feb. 10: Einer Elhauge (HLS)
Sacrificing Corporate Profits in the Public Interest
Feb. 23: Mihir Desai (HBS), Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner.
Institutions, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Firm Dynamics: Evidence from Europe
March 1: Yaniv Grinstein (Cornell)
CEO Compensation and Incentives: Evidence from M&A Bonuses.
March 3: Greg Taxin, (Glass, Lewis & Co. LLC)
"Evaluating Corporate Governance"
March 15: Andrei Shleifer (Harvard)
Disorder and Economic Growth.
March 15: Lucian Bebchuk (HLS)
The Case Against Shareholder Access to the Ballot
March 15: Guhan Subramanian (HLS)
Special Committee Bargaining Power in Freeze-out Mergers: Some Empmirical Evidence
   

 

Fall 2003

Sep. 15: Alexandre Dyck (HBS), co-authored with Luigi Zingales and Mihir Desai
  Corporate Governance and Taxation
Sep. 16: Robert Sitkoff (Northwestern)
  An Agency Cost Theory of Trust Law
Sep. 22. Josh Lerner (HBS), co-authored with Antoinette Schoar
  Private Equity in the Developing World: The Determinants of Transaction Structures
Sep. 23: Guhan Subramanian (HLS)
  Bargaining in the Shadow of Takeover Defenses
Sep. 29: Allen Ferrell (HLS)
  Mandated Disclosure and Stock Returns: Evidence from the Over-the-Counter Market.
Sep. 30: Andrew Guzman (HLS)
The Design of International Agreements
Oct. 7 Mark Roe (HLS)
  Delaware's Politics
Oct. 20: Ekaterina Zhuravskaya (CEFIR, Visiting Princeton), co-authored with Ruben Enikolopov
  Decentralization and Political Institutions
Oct. 21: Jeff Strnad (Stanford)
Conceptualizing The "Fat Tax": The Role of Food Taxes in Developed Economies
Nov. 3: Jeremy Stein (Harvard Economics)
  Why Are Most Funds Open-End? Competition and the Limits of Arbitrage
Nov. 4: Lucian Bebchuk (HLS) and Alma Cohen
The Costs of Entrenched Boards
Nov. 10: Casey B. Mulligan and Andrei Shleifer
Population and Regulation
Nov. 11: Terry Fisher
An Alternative Compensation System
Nov. 17: Oren Bar-Gill and Lucian A. Bebchuk
The Cost of Permitting Managers to Sell Shares
Nov. 18: Reuven Avi-Yonah (Michigan)
Corporations, Society and the State: A Defense of the Corporate Tax
Nov. 24: Suzanne E. Majewski and Dean V. Williamson
Incomplete Contracting and the Structure of Collaborative R&D Agreements
Dec. 1: Nicola Gennaioli
Contracting in the Shadow of the Law
Dec. 1: Robert Monks and Allen Sykes
  Capitalism Without Owners Must Fail
  Video

 

2002-2003

Spring 2003

Feb. 10: Oren Bar-Gill and Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard)
Misreporting Corporate Performance
Feb. 18: Allen Ferrell (Harvard)
  Does Mandated Disclosure Improve Allocative Efficiency? Evidence from the Over-the-Counter Market
Feb. 25: Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard)
Empowering Shareholders
Mar. 3: Raphael LaPorta (Harvard)
What Works in Securities Laws?
Mar. 18: John Coates (Harvard) and Reinier Kraakman (Harvard)
CEO Incentives and Merger Activity in the 1990s: Stock Options and Real Options
Apr. 14: Brian Hall (Harvard) and Thomas Knox (Harvard)
Managing Option Fragility
Apr. 22: Bernard Black (Stanford)
Does Corporate Governance Affect Firm Value? Evidence from Korea

 

Fall 2002

Sep. 10: Mark Ramseyer (Harvard)
Who Appoints Them, What Do They Do? Evidence on Outside Directors from Japan
Sep. 30: Pablo Casas-Arce (Harvard)
  Contract Design in the English East India Company, 1709-1756
Oct. 15: Lucian Bebchuk (Harvard)
  Firms' Decisions where to Incorporate
Oct. 21: Hermann P. Tribukait-Vasconcelos (Harvard)
  Can Higher Expected Penalties Affect Stock Price Reaction to Corporate News? Evidence from Mexicans ADRs.
Nov. 12: Mark Roe (Harvard)
  Delaware's competition
Nov. 18: Matias Braun (Harvard)
  Financial Contractibility and Assets' Hardness: Industrial Specialization and Growth
Nov. 26: Guhan Subramanian (Harvard)
  The Disappearing Delaware Effect
Dec. 3: Henry Hansmann (Yale) and Reinier Kraakman (Harvard)
  Legal Entity, Asset Partitioning and the Evolution of Organizations