THE YALE CEO LEADERSHIP SUMMIT
Global Commerce Will Never Be the Same:
Risks, Retreats & Resilience

 
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MAY 30 & 31, 2002
Sponsored by:
United Parcel Service
Bloomberg News
The Gallup Organization
PRG-Schultz International

 
 

THURSDAY - MAY 30, 2002
1:00 P.M. - Registration & Reception Lunch
2:00 P.M. - Harmonious Greetings
Whim 'n Rhythm
2:30 P.M. - Welcome

Jeffrey E. Garten, Dean, Yale School of Management
Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, Associate Dean, Yale School of Management

 

SESSION #1
By Now, Are Global Risks & Retreats Overstated?

"Reducing Conflict Through Clear Communications of Purpose"

The Honorable Charlotte L. Beers
US Under Secretary of State
Former Chair, J. Walter Thompson Worldwide

 

Paul Bracken, Yale SOM
David T. Brown, Owens Corning
James K. Clifton, The Gallup Organization
Timothy C. Collins, Ripplewood Holdings
John M. Cook, PRG-Schultz International
Rick Goings, Tupperware Corporation
John Hancock, MFI Furniture Group
George R. Hornig, Credit Suisse First Boston
Paul M. Kennedy, Yale University
Frederick J. Schwab, Porsche Cars North America
S. Prakash Sethi, Baruch College / CUNY
James G. Speth, Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies
John F. Ward, Russell Corporation
Thomas H. Weidemeyer, United Parcel Service
John R. Willingham, Boullioun Aviation Services
William D. Zollars, Yellow Corporation

  Centenial Leadership Tribute
ALBERT H. GORDON

Honorary Chairman, Kidder Peabody & Co.
Presentation by
Jonathan Bush
Chairman, J. Bush & Co.
 
 

SESSION #2
Is the Board Irrelevant:
Do Governance Metrics Matter?

Opening Comments
WILLIAM W. GEORGE
Former Chairman, Medtronic

 

James M. Alexander, Former CEO, Enron Global Power & Pipelines
Rick Antle, Yale SOM
George J. Benston, Goizueta Business School/Emory University
Richard E. Cavanagh, The Conference Board
Kim G. Davis, Charlesbank Capital Partners
Charles M. Elson, Center for Corporate Governance/Univ. of Delaware
A.D. Frazier, Chicago Stock Exchange
Bruce C. Greenwald, Columbia Business School
Merle D. Lewis, NorthWestern Corporation
Florencio Lopez-de-Silanes, Yale SOM
Bernard Marcus, The Home Depot
Edward J. Mathias, The Carlyle Group
D. Quinn Mills, Harvard Business School
Nell Minow, The Corporate Library
Ralph E. Reed Jr., Century Strategies
James D. Robinson, RRE Ventures
Craig E. Weatherup, The Pepsi Bottling Group

 
  Reception

Yale Whiffenpoofs

Dinner

 

LEGEND IN LEADERSHIP AWARD

WILLIAM W. GEORGE

Former Chairman, Medtronic

Presentation by
Bernard Marcus
Founder, The Home Depot

Keynote Address
Global Resilience Beginning at Home:
Restoring Trust & Stability to the US Workplace

The Honorable

ELAINE L. CHAO
US Secretary of Labor

   
FRIDAY - MAY 31, 2002
7:15 A.M. - Breakfast
  SESSION #3
Restoring Trust in Commerce:

What I Wish I Knew About My Business Partners & Employees That's Hard To Ask
Stephen Berger, Odyssey Investment Partners
Garry D. Brewer, Yale SOM
Joseph W. Brown, MBIA
David A. Cole, Kurt Salmon Associates
Elisabeth DeMarse, Bankrate
James W. Down, Mercer Management Consulting
Jean D. Hamilton, Prudential Institutional Group
M. Christine Jacobs, Theragenics
Charles H. King, Korn/Ferry International
Marc J. Knez, Sibson Consulting/Segal Company
Glen T. Meakem, FreeMarkets
Joel R. Reidenberg, Fordham Law School
Westley V. Thompson, Lincoln Financial Distributors

 

 

FRIDAY - MAY 31, 2002

  SESSION #4
Discussion Groups:

Proving Your Leadership Team Can Be Trusted by Investors & Employees
  Group A
Kevin D. Foster, Macquarium
Anil K. Gupta, Smith School of Business/The Univ. of Maryland
Stacy J. Kenworthy, OptioFacio

Group B

David S. Fowler, The Chubb Institute Christopher Lovelock, Yale SOM
Gregory S. Prince Jr., Hampshire College

Group C

Theodore R. Marmor, Yale SOM
Chris Nedza, CMD Services

Group D

John McCorry, Bloomberg News
Fiona Scott Morton, Yale SOM

Group E

Dan Reardon, North Highland Company
Sandra E. Spataro, Yale SOM
Dorothy Cowser Yancy, Johnson C. Smith University

Group F

Sidney I. Lirtzman, Baruch College/CUNY
C. Charles Stokes, CDC Foundation
Andrew Ward, Goizueta Business School/Emory University
 
  SESSION #5
The Strategic Changes You Would Like to Make a Reality
:
What Are the Barriers?
 

Maxwell L. Anderson, Whitney Museum of Art
Joel Brockner, Columbia Business School
Douglas R. Conant, Campbell Soup Company
Marsha Johnson Evans, Girl Scouts of the USA
John H. Eyler, Toys “R” Us
Keith Ferrazzi, YaYa
James P. Firman Jr., The National Council of the Aging
Stephen A. Greyser, Harvard Business School
James Hagedorn, The Scotts Company
Judith McHale, Discovery Communications
Barry Nalebuff, Yale SOM
Thomas E. Noonan, Internet Security Systems
William B. Pace, Kurt Salmon Associates
Sharon L. Patrick, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia
Stuart R. Patterson, SpeechWorks International
Gregory A. Peters, Vignette Corporation
William V. Roberti, Alvarez & Marsal
Richard F. Teerlink, Harley-Davidson
Victor H. Vroom, Yale SOM
Dick R. Wittink, Yale SOM

 
  Lunch

Keynote Address

Cultivating the Garden


MARTHA STEWART

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Inc.

2:15 P.M. - Adjournment