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Rock Center Program for Journalists

Agenda

STANFORD ROCK CENTER PROGRAM FOR JOURNALISTS:
A PRIMER IN CORPORATE GOVERNANCE

June 4-5, 2013
Location: Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
New York City, NY

AGENDA

Tuesday, June 4th, 2013

8:30 a.m.  Registration and Breakfast

9:00 a.m.  Insider Trading and Selective Disclosure: Implications of Social Media and High Frequency Text Analytics for the SEC’s Enforcement Agenda
Joseph Grundfest, W. A. Franke Professor of Law and Business; Senior Faculty, Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance; and Co-director, Director’s College

10:30 a.m.  Break

10:45 a.m. Corporate Finance
F. Daniel Siciliano, Professor and Associate Dean for Executive Education and Special Programs, Stanford Law School; Faculty Director, Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, Stanford University; Co-director, Stanford Directors’ College

12:15 p.m.  Lunch Break

12:45 p.m. Accounting I
Roman L. Weil, V. Duane Rath Professor of Accounting Emeritus at the Chicago Booth School of Business; Program Fellow, Stanford Law School; Co-Director, Directors’ Consortium.

2:00 p.m.  Break

2:15 p.m. Accounting II
Roman L. Weil, V. Duane Rath Professor of Accounting Emeritus at the Chicago Booth School of Business; Program Fellow, Stanford Law School; Co-Director, Directors’ Consortium.

3:30 p.m.  Adjournment

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Wednesday, June 5th, 2013

8:30 a.m.  Breakfast

9:00 a.m. Institutional Investors, Activist Investors and Agency Capitalism: How to Understand U.S. Corporate Governance with Concentrated Ownership.
Ronald J. Gilson, Meyers Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School; and Stern Professor of Law and Business, Columbia Law School

10:30 a.m.  Break

10:45 a.m. Developments in Financial Regulation Under Dodd Frank
Michael Klausner, Nancy and Charles Munger Professor of Business and Professor of Law, Stanford Law School; Co-director, Director’s Consortium

12:15 p.m.  Lunch

12:45 p.m.  Recent Developments in Litigation, with a focus on M&A and Say-on-Pay
Robert M. Daines, Pritzker Professor of Law and Business; Senior Faculty, Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance

2:00 p.m.  Break

2:15 p.m. Executive Compensation and Selected Corporate Governance topics
David F. Larcker, James Irvin Miller Professor of Accounting, Stanford Graduate School of Business; Senior Faculty, Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance; and Co-director, Directors’ Consortium

3:30 p.m.  Adjournment