12:00 noon to 1:40 p.m.

Committee for Economic Development
2000 L Street NW, Suite 700
Washington, D.C. 20036

Registration and a Buffet Lunch will open at 11:50 a.m.

CED President Charles Kolb will speak at Investor Responsibility Research Center (IRRC) Institute and the Sustainable Investment Institute (SI2) lunch press conference to discuss a new report, "Corporate Governance of Political Expenditures: 2011 Benchmark Report on S&P 500 Companies" on Thursday, November 10, 2011.

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New paper calls for national database on governance and practices of institutional investors

Washington, D.C. October 3, 2011. The Committee for Economic Development (CED) and the Millstein Center at the Yale School of Management have today published a new working paper, Are Institutional Investors Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution? authored by Ben W. Heineman, Jr., Chair of CED's Corporate Governance Subcommittee and senior fellow at Harvard's schools of law and government and Stephen Davis, Executive Director of the Millstein Center. The report argues that institutional investors---pension funds, mutual funds, hedge funds, sovereign wealth funds and endowments of non-profits now have a significant impact on individuals, investee companies, the market and the economy but far too little is known about how they are governed.

The Committee for Economic Development hosted a policy dinner on April 20, 2011 in New York City, to discuss the future of capitalism. Roger Ferguson, President and CEO of TIAA-CREF - and CED's incoming Co-Chair - and Dominic Barton, Global Managing Director of McKinsey & Company, were our featured speakers.

On January 19, CED joined with the Aspen Institute Business and Society Program and the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance at the Yale School of Management to host a roundtable discussion of corporate governance issues.  The half-day session in New York focused on the role of institutional investors, and brought together academic researchers and business practitioners, including CED co-chair Don Peterson, corporate governance subcommittee chair Ben Heineman, and other Trustees to discuss this key but little-examined aspect of corporate governance and performance. 

Roger Ferguson

CED hosted a forum on the role of institutional investors in corporate governance, with over 50 business leaders in attendance.  The forum was hosted by CED Trustee Martin Cohen, Managing Director and Corporate Secretary, Morgan Stanley, at the Morgan Stanley headquarters in New York.

CED Trustee Roger Ferguson, President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA-CREF delivered keynote remarks on how shareholder engagement, if used properly, can lead to more efficient, effective and ultimately better run organizations from a long term perspective. Mr. Ferguson then joined a panel of corporate governance and business ethics experts, including Stephen Davis, Executive Director of the Millstein Center for Corporate Governance and Performance, Yale School of Management; CED Trustees R. Glenn Hubbard, Dean, Columbia School of Business; and William Donaldson, Former SEC Chairman, currently Chair of Donaldson Enterprises.

CED and CSIS Host Corporate Governance Briefing

L-r: Ben Heineman, William Ezzell, Patrick Gross, Alfred Mockett

Corporate governance reform is a vital part of restoring public trust in how American companies are run.  On May 6, CED and The Hills Program on Governance at the Center for Strategic and international Studies (CSIS) hosted a briefing focused on corporate governance reform that featured keynote remarks from CED Trustee and CSIS Trustee Ben W. Heineman, Jr., Senior Fellow Distinguished Practitioner, Program on the Legal Profession, Harvard Law School Senior Fellow, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and former Senior Vice President and General Counsel for General Electric Corporation.

Boards & Risk Briefing: Under Attack - The New Assault on American Corporations

Ben W. Heineman, Jr. speaks with panelists and audience members following the program.

CED, the Torrenzano Group, and the White House Writers Group hosted a March 25 briefing on corporate governance reform at the Bloomberg Headquarters in New York City. CED Trustee Ben Heineman, Jr. was the first speaker and outlined his work with CED on the policy brief, Restoring Trust in Corporate Governance: The Six Essential Tasks of Boards of Directors and Business Leaders. Bloomberg Television business anchor, Kathryn Hayes, served as moderator for the session, which was available on the Internet and through Bloomberg news terminals worldwide. 

CED Trustee Ben Heineman, Jr. was the lead speaker at a corporate governance briefing held at the Bloomberg headquarters building in New York City on March 25, 2010. The event was webcast and featured participation from the audience at the event and from around the world via the Internet and Bloomberg’s media terminals.

On Thursday, June 25th, CED, in partnership with the Alliance to Save Energy hosted a breakfast discussion entitled Corporate Sustainability, the Environment and Economic Recovery - Investing for the Future. The breakfast forum was hosted in the Capitol Visitors Center and brought together business leaders and the political community for an in-depth discussion on the importance of corporate sustainability during trying economic times.