Center for Corporate Governance Events and Presentations

Award for Outstanding Leadership in Research in Excellence
Thursday, April 3, 2008

Keynote Speaker and Honoree:
Dr. Michael C. Jensen, Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, Harvard University

Dr. Jensen will present his keynote address "A Positive Model of Integrity." Dr. Jensen's positive model of integrity provides powerful access to increased performance for individuals, groups, organizations, and societies. His model also reveals the causal link between integrity as we distinguish and define it, and increased performance and value-creation for all entities. It also provides access to that causal link.

Dr. Jensen earned his Ph.D. in economics, finance and accounting and his MBA in finance from the University of Chicago. He has been on faculty at the Harvard Business School since 1985. Dr. Jensen, a distinguished scholar, has been awarded numerous honorary doctor of law degrees from colleges around the world. He has authored more than 90 scientific papers, founded the Journal of Financial Economics and the Social Science Research Network. He has served as consultant and board member to several foundations, corporations and governmental agencies.

Dr. Jensen is the first recipient of the Outstanding Academic Contribution to Corporate Governance Award. The Award is given to an individual for his or her notable contributions to research in Corporate Governance.

First LeBow College of Business Center for Corporate Governance Academic Conference
Friday, April 4, 2008

At LeBow College of Business' first Center for Corporate Governance Academic Conference, six working-papers will be presented and discussed regarding various aspects of corporate governance.

Presenters:
Brian J.  Bushee, University of Pennsylvania
Jie Cai, Drexel University
Martijn Cremers, Yale University
Diane Denis, Purdue University
Alexander Dyck, University of Toronto
Laura Field, Penn State University
Simi Kedia, Rutgers Business School
Felix Meschke, University of Minnesota
Gordon Phillips, University of Maryland
Matthew Rhodes-Kropf, Columbia University
Michael Roberts, University of Pennsylvania
Rohan Williamson, Georgetown University
Tracie Woidtke, University of Tennessee
Karen Wruck, Ohio State University
David Yermack, New York University

Inside the Boardroom Series

LeBow College of Business' Inside the Boardroom series is a unique forum for CEOs in which the audience is comprised of C-level executives and company board members. This dynamic series features prominent corporate, academic and board leaders who provide insight on trends that directly affect the performance and success of public or private companies and other board-directed organizations.

April 2008 – "Compensation: Public vs. Private Equity Models"
Features advisors and principals in the compensation area focusing on differences in the way public companies and private companies compensate their executives. Also examines lessons that public companies can learn from private companies.

• David Swinford – President and CEO of Pearl Meyer & Partners
• Joe Bachelder - Founder and senior partner of The Bachelder Firm
• Cindy Alexander – Assistant Chief Economist at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

January 2008 – "Leadership Lessons: Private vs. Public"
Examined the perspective of CEOs on Public vs. Private equity and featured CEOs with experience on both sides.

• Bob Rock – Chairman and Publisher of Director and Boards Magazine

• Stan Silverman – Former CEO of PQ Group
• Harry Jansen Kraemer Jr.- ExecutivePartner of Madison Dearborn Partners

October 2007 – "Private Equity: What are the Lessons for Public Companies?"
Examined advantages and challenges of private equity, what public firms might learn from the private-equity model, and what challenges the current market environment poses.

• Dick Cashin - Chairman of OneEquity Partners,
• Gregory Segal - Managing Partner of Versa Capital Management
• Steve Zarrilli - Managing Partner of Penn Valley Group

December 2006 – "Corporate Governance, Long-term Value and Executive Compensation"
Examines the risks for board members and C-level executives in guiding organizations to achieve their potential.

• Beverly Aisenbrey, Frederic W. Cook and Co.
• Rosina B. Dixon, M.D., New Jersey Chapter of the National Association of Corporate Directors
• Mark W. Sickles, Mark W. Sickles, LLC

February 2006 – "Who's on First? Corporate Succession for Directors"
Examined the importance of succession planning for directors.

• Jon A. Boscia, CEO of Lincoln National Corporation,
• Kevin P. Dowd, Director of C&D Technologies, Inc
• Dave Yost, CEO of AmerisourceBergen Corporation

September 2005 – "Rules of Engagement"
Examined the new rules of engagement for CEOs and the boards that oversee them in this Sarbanes-Oxley era.

• Howard Fischer, CEO of Howard Fisher International,
• David L. Cohen, Executive Vice President of Comcast Corporation
• Richard C. Ill, President and CEO of Triumph Group, Inc
• Eric Pillmore, Senior Vice President of Corporate Governance for Tyco International