The Harvard Institutional Investors Roundtable will convene tomorrow. The event will bring together prominent members of the institutional investor world to discuss a number of related issues concerning shareholder voting.
During the morning sessions, the roundtable discussion will focus on lessons from the first year of advisory votes on executives compensation and on how institutions should vote on compensation arrangements in the future. During the second half of the day, the roundtable discussion will focus on majority voting and withhold votes, as well as on the reporting of proxy votes to beneficiaries. The event will start with a keynote talk by and discussion with Larry Summers.
The event, which is co-organized by Lucian Bebchuk and Robert Pozen, is jointly sponsored by the Harvard Law School Program on Institutional Investors, the Harvard Law School Program on Corporate Governance, Harvard Business School, and the Harvard Kennedy School Center for Business and Government, and supported by the Investment Company Institute.
Participants in the Harvard Institutional Investors Roundtable will include:
- F. Gregory Ahern, Chief Public Communications Officer, Investment Company Institute (ICI)
- Joe Bachelder, Founder and Senior Partner, The Law Offices of Joseph E. Bachelder
- Lucian A. Bebchuk, William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance; Director, Program on Corporate Governance, Harvard Law School
- Bo Becker, Assistant Professor, Harvard Business School
- Allison Bennington, Partner and General Counsel, ValueAct Capital
- Kenneth A. Bertsch, President and CEO, Society of Corporate Secretaries and Governance Professionals
- Glenn Booraem, Principle and Fund Controller, Vanguard
- Carol Bowie, Executive Director, Institutional Shareholder Services Inc. (ISS)
- Richard C. Breeden, Chairman, Breeden Capital Management
- Jay Chaudhuri, General Counsel and Senior Policy Advisor, North Carolina Department of State Treasurer
- Robert C. Clark, Harvard Distinguished Service Professor, Harvard Law School
- John C. Coates IV, John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics, Harvard Law School
- Jack Cogan, Non-Executive Chairman, Pioneer Investment Management USA, Inc.