Center for Responsible Business Upcoming Events Announced

Published 08-12-03

Submitted by University of California Berkeley

BERKELEY, CA In today’s economic climate, issues of corporate governance have received a tidal wave of media attention. Yet there still remains a need to understand the substantive impact of these management issues on financial performance and stock evaluation. From September 14-16th, the Center for Executive Development at Haas will hold its 25th annual Berkeley Program in Finance in collaboration with the Center for Responsible Business. This session of the Berkeley Program in Finance will help you make sense of the current turmoil in financial markets, see where new opportunities may be found, stay abreast of new regulations, and learn how corporate governance will shape the future business world.

The program offers an exceptional opportunity to interact with leading corporate governance experts and distinguished faculty about the most critical financial aspects for decision-making. Led by Mark Latham and Terry Odean, Finance faculty at the Haas School of Business, the program will feature presentations by experts in law and finance from across the nation, including:

“Ownership of Corporations & Legal Structures Around the World”
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Yale School of Management

“Risky Business: Rating Corporate Governance in a Post-Enron World”
Patrick McGurn, Institutional Shareholder Services

“How Corporate Governance Factors Into Credit Assessment”
Kenneth Bertsch, Moody’s Investor Service

“Why Are Some IPO’s Underpriced?”
Jay Ritter, University of Florida

“How Corporate Governance Affects Firm Value in Developing Markets”
Bernard Black, Stanford Law School

“Corporate Governance and Assets Returns”
Vinay Nair, New York University

“Does Corporate Governance Matter?”
Andrew Rudd, Barra

“Mergers: Do Boards Maximize Value?”
Mark Zenner, ABN Amro

“Relational Investing for Protection and Profit”
Andrew Shapiro, Lawndale Capital Management

“Cost-Effective Ways to Improve Corporate Governance”
Mark Latham, Corporate Monitoring Project

“Executive Compensation as an Agency Cost”
Jesse Fried, UC Berkeley

This year’s Berkeley Program in Finance will be held at the elegant Sonoma Mission Inn in the heart of Wine Country in Sonoma, California, from September 14-16. For more information and to register, please visit our website.

Also coming up . . .

Integrating Social Initiatives and Marketing Strategy

September 17-19, 2003
Boston University School of Management
Boston, Massachusetts

Mark your calendar and make your travel reservations to attend the Sept. 17-19 International Conference on “Integrating Social Initiatives and Marketing Strategy” hosted by Boston University School of Management, the London Business School, the Center for Responsible Business at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, the Aspen Institute’s Business and Society Program, and the Marketing Science Institute.

You can register now at mgmt.bu.edu/research/isims. If you would like to receive a printed copy of the program and registration form via mail or if you have any questions, please email Jan Sephenson at jans@bu.edu.

The conference is a forum where academics and practitioners can engage in dialogue on the vital topic of how firms can integrate their social initiatives and marketing strategies to benefit from this potential new source of value. Participants will include practitioners from BP, The Home Depot, Chiquita, Hewlett Packard, and Starbucks as well as academic experts from leading business schools worldwide.

Center for Responsible Business Upcoming Events Announced

Center for Responsible Business Upcoming Events Announced

University of California Berkeley

University of California Berkeley

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