New Directions in Corporate Governance

This conference will discuss cutting-edge issues in corporate governance. 

• For whom are corporations run -- just their shareholders, or do other stakeholders matter as well? Which other stakeholders? If other stakeholders' interests are to be taken into account, how do we achieve that?
• Given the dramatic changes in how business is conducted, what new models of corporate governance and organization have arisen to reflect and accommodate those changes?
• How have changes in technology affected how corporations are run and financed? 
• Finally, the big corporate scandals we have seen suggest that law may be limited in its ability to prevent bad corporate behavior.  Culture is clearly critical.  How do we measure culture? Can we figure out how to change it?

Conference Speakers and Moderators: 
Joseph Bankman, Stanford Law School
Avner Ben-Ner, University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management
Margaret Blair, Vanderbilt University
Matthew Bodie, Saint Louis University School of Law
June Carbone, University of Minnesota Law School
Douglas Cumming, York University Schulich School of Business
Jerry Davis, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Aiyesha Dey, Harvard Business School
Claire Hill, University of Minnesota Law School
Erich Hoefer, Starling Trust
Wulf Kaal, University of St. Thomas School of Law
Brett McDonnell, University of Minnesota Law School
Elizabeth Pollman, Loyola Law School
E.P.M. Vermeulen, Tilburg University Law School