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Upcoming Spring 2008 Programs


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Past Programs


Spring 2008
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 Have S.E.C Pay Disclosures Changed Corporate Governance?
 

 

 

 

Moderator: Pimm Fox, Bloomberg Television
 
Panel:

Ray Groves, Retired Chair & CEO, Ernst & Young, Director, EDS, Boston Scientific

Steven Hall, Managing Director, Steven Hall & Partners

Marc Hodak, Founder, Hodak Value Advisors
 

Thursday, April 17, 2008 Activist Hedge Funds: What Public Company Directors Should Know
  Panel: Stephen R. Munger, Chairman, Global Mergers & Acquisitions, Morgan Stanley

Michael J. Aiello, Partner, Weil Gotshal & Manages, LLP

Daniel H. Burch, CEO & Chairman, Mackenzie Partners
 

Wednesday, March 26, 2008 The Nature of the Board's Engagement in Company Strategy
  Moderator: Roger Kenny, President, Boardroom Consultants
 
Panel: Ram Charan, Highly Accalimed Author, Business Advisor & Speaker

Fall 2007 Programs
Wednesday, December 12, 2007 Retooling of Risk Management for Directors
  Moderator: Tyler Mathisen, Managing Editor, CNBC Business News
 
Panel:
John J. Bilardello, Managing Director, Corporate & Government Ratings, Standard & Poor’s

Alex A. Latorre, Assistant Vice President, Market Group, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Steve Goldman, Senior Vice President, Financial Institutions Group, AIG Executive Liability
 

Tuesday, November 13, 2007 Private Equity: What Public Company Directors Should Know About Going Private
  Moderator: James L. Gunderson, Director, Aibel Group Limited, President, NACD-NY, and CEO of Governance and Transactions
Panel:

Robert A. Kindler, Vice Chairman, Investment Banking Division, Morgan Stanley

David A. Wilson, President & CEO, Graduate Management Admission Council and Chair, Special Committee of Independent Directors, Laureate Corporation
 

Wednesday, October 10, 2007 Notes on a Scandal: Moving to Best Practices in the Use of Options and Other Equity Incentives
  Panel: Dr. Rosina B Dixon, Chair, Compensation Committee, Cambrex; Director, Church & Dwight
  Mary R. Henderson, Former Corporate Vice President, Global Business Development, Bestfoods
  Robert L. Messineo, Esq., Partner, Corporate Department, Weil Gotshal & Manges, LLP
  Steven E. Hall, Managing Director, Steven Hall & Partners

2006 - 07 Program Schedule
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 The Board’s New Role in Succession Planning:
What’s Working and What’s Not
  Panel: James Houghton, Chairman Emeritus, Corning, Inc., Board Member, Exxon Mobil Corporation, MetLife, Inc.
 

Susan J. Kropf, Former President and COO, Avon Products, Inc., Board Member: Coach, MeadWestvaco Corp., and Sherwin Williams

Moderator: Dr. David A. Nadler, Vice Chairman, Marsh & McLennan Companies, Inc
 Thursday, April 12, 2007 Board Response to Unfolding Fraud Situations
  Panel: J. Thomas Presby, Former Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, Multi-Board Director
  Richard H. Gergenti, National Practice Leader and Americas Principal-In-Charge of the Forensic Practice, KPMG LLP
  Moderator: Jules B. Kroll, Founder and Chairman of Kroll, Vice Chairman of Marsh
 Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Board Self Assessments:  What Have We Learned?
 
Panel: Edward A Kangas, Former Chairman and CEO, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu; Chairman, Tenet Healthcare Corporation
 

Randall W. Larrimore, Retired Chairman, Olin Corporation; Former President and Chief Executive Officer,United Stationers, Inc.

  Moderator: Roger M. Kenny, Managing Partner, Boardroom Consultants
 Tuesday, December 12, 2006 Are Directors Tone Deaf?
  Moderator: Walter Kiechel, Former Managing Editor of Fortune and Senior Vice President and Former Editorial Director, Harvard Business School Publishing
Panel: Holly Gregory, Partner, Weil Gotschal & Manges
  Benjamin J. Heineman, Jr., Retired Senior Vice President, Law and Public Affairs, General Electric
  Robert Hogan, Author, Personality and the Fate of Organizations and Retired Chairman, Department of Psychology, University of Tulsa
 

William J. Holstein, Editor of Directorship and Former Editor of Chief Executive

 Thursday, November 9, 2006 Director Compensation: The Best Buy in Corporate America
  Panel:
Pearl Meyer, Senior Managing Director, Steven Hall & Partners
Robert Hallagan, Vice Chairman, Heidrick & Struggles
Norman Axelrod, Former CEO and Chairman, Linens 'n Things
 Thursday, October 12, 2006 The Role of the Lead Director
  Moderator: Roger M. Kenny, Managing Partner, Boardroom Consultants
Panel: John A. Krol, Retired Chairman & CEO, E. I. Du Pont De Nemours and Company and Lead Director of Tyco International
    Arthur C. Martinez, Retired Chairman & CEO, Sears Roebuck & Co. and Lead Director of International Flavors & Fragrances
   
Robert Holland, Former President & CEO, Ben & Jerry’s Homemade, Inc. and a multiple director.

2005 - 06 Program Schedule
 Monday, May 22, 2006 Has Capitalism Lost Its Soul - Can Directors Save It?
  Moderator:

Al Vogl, The Conference Board, and Editor, “Across The Board” Magazine

  Panel: Donald R. Keough, Chairman, Allen & Company,
Director, Coca-Cola Company, former President, Coca-Cola Company
    John Bogle, Former CEO, The Vanguard Group, and author of “The Battle for the Soul of Capitalism”
    Jay Lorsch, Professor, Harvard Business School and author of “Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Boards for a Complex World”
 Tuesday, April 11, 2006 The Evolving Role of the Not-For-Profit Board
  Moderator:

Roger M. Kenny, Managing Partner, Boardroom Consultants

  Panel:

Elaine Allen, Partner, Americas Director,
Not-For-Profit Sector, Ernst & Young

   

Howard J. Berman, Chairman,
The Alliance for Not-For-Profit Hospitals

   

Ralph Dickerson Jr., Head of Not-For-Profit Practice,
Boardroom Consultants; Former President, United Way of New York

   

Edward A. Kangas, Chairman,
The
National Multiple Sclerosis Society; Chairman, Tenet Healthcare

Wednesday, March 8, 2006
 
D&O Insurance In the Post-SOX Era:
A New Liability Environment in the Boardroom?
  Moderator: John W. Keogh, President and CEO,
National Union Fire Insurance Company
  Panel: Joseph S. Allerhand, Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges
    Stanley D. Bernstein, Partner, Bernstein, Liebhard and Lifshitz
Wednesday, December 14, 2005 Do Institutional Investors Care About Corporate Governance?
A spirited interchange on a timely topic receiving increasing boardroom scrutiny
  Speaker: Christopher Davis, CEO, Davis Advisors
  Panel: Ric Marshall, Chief Analyst, The Corporate Library LLC
    Howard Sherman, COO, GovernanceMetrics International (GMI)
Thursday, November 17, 2005 Corporate Ethics: Antidote or Placebo?
A Pragmatic Examination of Shareholder vs. Corporate Expectations
  Speaker: Eric M. Pillmore, SVP of Corporate Governance, Tyco International Ltd.
  Panel: Keith T. Darcy, CEO, Ethics Office Association
    Ruth A. Wooden, President, Public Agenda
Friday, October 21, 2005 Whose Job is it Anyway?
Coordinating the Oversight Responsibilities of the Board and the Audit Committee
  Speaker: Scott A. Reed, Partner KPMG Audit Institute
  Panel: Paul M. Albert, Jr., Director American Tower Corporation
    Patrick W. Kenny, President and CEO, International Insurance Society

2004 - 05 Program Schedule
Tuesday, May 10, 2005
Director Compensation: The Facts and The Future
 
Speaker:
Pearl Meyer, Principal Pearl Meyer & Partners
 
Panel:
Robert E. Hallagan, Vice Chairman, Heidrick & Struggles
Steven H. Rice, Director, Allegheny Energy
Thursday, April 14, 2005
"We Need to Talk": Effective Director/Shareholder Communication
 
Speaker:
Margaret “Peggy” Foran, Corporate Secretary Pfizer, Inc.
Panel:
R. Todd Lang, Partner, Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP
Linda E. Scott, Director Corporate Governance, TIAA-CREF
Wednesday, March 9, 2005
Understanding the Risks and Protections in Serving as a Corporate Director in the Post-Enron, Post-WorldCom Era
Speaker:
Chief Justice E. Norman Veasey
Thursday, December 9, 2004
Succession Planning
Speakers:
B. Kenneth West, Chairman, NACD
Roger M. Kenny, Chairman, Boardroom Consultants
November 16, 2004
Board Leadership - Structure, Roles and Performance

Speakers:
Beverly A. Behan, Partner, Mercer Delta Consulting LLP
Frank Borelli, Director, Interpublic Group

2003 - 04 Program Schedule
May 6, 2004 Maximizing Board Effectiveness: The Role of the Governance Committee
Speakers: Robert E. Hallagan, Vice Chairman of Heidrick & Struggles
John O. Whitney, Lead Director of Church & Dwight Co., Inc.
April 15, 2004 Public Trust In Business:
How it Was Lost And How It Can Be Rebuilt
Speaker: Peter G. Peterson, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and Chairman & Co-Founder of The Blackstone Group
March 23, 2004 Protecting Personal Assets in a Perilous Corporate Environment
What Every Director Should Understand About D&O Insurance
Speakers: John W. Keogh, AIG
Paul Ferrillo, Weil, Gotshal and Manges LLP
December 3, 2003 The New Age of Internal Controls After Sarbanes-Oxley
Speaker: Willis D. Gradison, Jr., PCAOB
Craig Crawford, Partner KPMG LLP
Lon R. Greenberg, Chairman & CEO UGI Corporation
November 19, 2003 Executive Compensation: The New Board Battleground
Speakers: B. Kenneth West, Chairman, NACD,
Edward C. Archer, Managing Director of Pearl Meyer & Partners
October 1, 2003 Audit Committee Oversight What Is It? Will I Know It When I See It?
Speaker: Mark C. Terrell, Executive Director of KPMG's Audit Committe Institute

2002 - 03 Programs
May 7, 2003

Report of NACD Blue Ribbon Commission on Risk Oversight
Speaker: Ira M. Millstein, Senior Partner of Weil, Gotshal & Manges, LLP, and Director, NACD
Panelists: Betsy Atkins, Co-Founder of Ascend Communications and Director of Lucent Technologies, Robert E. Hallagan, Vice Chairman of Heidrick & Struggles, and Harry J. Pearce, Chairman of Hughes Electronics Corporation

April 2, 2003 Potential Impact of the New Powers of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
Speaker: John H. Biggs, (retired) Chairman, CEO and President of TIAA-CREF
March 12, 2003 Role of the Compensation Committee
Recent Trends in Board Practices and Director Compensation
Speakers: Dr. Rosina Dixon, Director, NACD
Mrs. Pearl Meyer, Chairman of Pearl Meyer & Partners
December 16, 2002 The New Corporate Governance Challenges After Sarbanes-Oxley
Speaker: Harvey J. Goldschmid, Commissioner at the United States Securities and Exchange Commission
November 12, 2002 Accounting Red Flags for Directors and Audit Committee Members
Speaker: Dr. Howard Schilit, Center for Financial Research and Analysis (“CFRA”)
September 30, 2002 Corporate Governance After the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002
Speaker: The Honorable Michael G. Oxley
Chairman, House Committee on Financial Services

 

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