The John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance of the Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics at the University of Delaware will host a Corporate Governance Symposium on March 15, 2016. The focus of the Symposium will be on “Critical Issues for Boards and Institutional Investors in 2016.”
We encourage submission of unpublished papers addressing topics within the field of corporate governance that are of critical importance in 2016 for boards of directors and institutional investors with a focus on: board and committee composition and structure, board and/or management succession planning, dual role of the CEO/Chairman, the board’s role in monitoring risk, executive and director compensation, shareholder engagement, the role and regulatory issues relating to the proxy advisory industry, and corporate governance reform measures associated with the foregoing.
Details and Deadline:
Please submit papers in a PDF version no later than November 23, 2015. Please use the following format as the file name when you save your paper: Last name (all caps), underscore, shortened name of paper, period, pdf (e.g., DOE_Shareholder Engagement.pdf). Please submit your papers to Louisa Cresson at Weinberg-corp-gov@udel.edu. Alternatively, you may send a hard-copy to:
Louisa K. Cresson
John L. Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance
Alfred Lerner College of Business & Economics
University of Delaware
Alfred Lerner Hall
Suite 103
20 Orchard Road
Newark, DE 19716
302-831-2786
