Drexel's Corporate Governance Conference

Each year, Drexel's Center for Corporate Governance holds a conference soliciting papers from around the world.  This year over sixty papers we submitted from which five were chosen for presentation.  The audience consists of some of the leading researchers in Corporate Governance from around the world. This year's program honors Jon Karpoff for his outstanding research in Corporate Governance and features an outstanding set of papers.  Patrick McGurn of ISS is the featured dinner speaker.   A copy of the program is shown below.

All the best,

Ralph

CEO Turnover: The Grass Isn't Always Greener

As many of you know, my day job is as executive director of Drexel's Center for Corporate Governance.  The Center has it's own blog run by center director Patricia Connolly.  This week's post features one of my finance colleague's, Ed Nelling, commenting on CEO Turnover.  He gives some great examples and asks some excellent questions.  I think you will enjoy it.  The post can be found here.

Corporate Governance, A View from the Top

Last Spring Raj Gupta, Richard Jaffe and I sat down with Joe DiStefano, a leading reporter for the Philadelphia Inquirer.  Richard chairs the advisory board of our governance center of which I am executive director.  Raj, as you will see, is an important member of our center and was Chairman of Rohm and Haas leading it to a spectacular merger with Dow Chemical (spectacular for Rohm and Haas shareholders at least).   The article describes some of Raj's philosophies on governance, philosophies learned through important work on the boards of companies like Rohm and Haas, Tyco, Vanguard, Dephi and Hewlett Packard.  It is well worth reading.

The entire article can be downloaded here.

All the best,

Ralph