Summit on the Future of the Corporation

James Boyle
Executive Director,
Progressive Business
Leaders Network
Aron Cramer
President and CEO,
Business for Social Responsibility
Bonnie Nixon
Director, Environmental Sustainability, Hewlett-Packard
Kent Greenfield
Professor,
Boston College Law School
Jeffrey Hollender
President,
Seventh Generation
Marjorie Kelly
Co-Founder, Corporation 20/20; Tellus Institute
Robert Kuttner
Author, Columnist and Co-Editor, American Prospect
Michael Marx
Executive Director,
Corporate Ethics International
Peter Senge
Founding Chair of SoL (Society for Organizational Learning),
Sloan School of Management, MIT
Damon Silvers
Associate General Counsel, AFL-CIO
Allen White
Co-Founder, Corporation 20/20; Former CEO, GRI;
Tellus Institute
*Affiliations for identification purposes only.

2nd Summit on the Future of the Corporation

We stand today at an historical moment. Many aspects of the global economy are out of synch with 21st century imperatives. While the character of corporations that produce needed goods and services—the “real economy”—is undergoing intense change, the “financial economy” is fueled more by money shuffling than by long-term wealth creation. The current global financial crisis has exposed a system of untenable leverage and speculative behavior that has left the real economy dangerously short of affordable, reliable and timely capital to meet its investment and operating needs. The result: an erosion of prospects for the creation and prosperity of sustainable companies to meet the pressing social and environmental challenges in the coming decades.

To explore the causes, consequences and solutions to these conditions, Corporation 20/20 (www.corporation2020.org) invites you to participate in the 2ND SUMMIT ON THE FUTURE OF THE CORPORATION: RESTORING THE PRIMACY OF THE REAL ECONOMY. Join leaders from business, civil society, labor, law and the media in a dynamic forum to debate one of the most pressing issues of our time: how can financial markets be returned to their rightful role as servant to, rather than master of, the real economy?

Selected Speakers

Peter Blom
CEO, Triodos Bank, Netherlands
Leslie Christian
President, Portfolio 21 Investments
Mark Goyder
Founder Director of Tomorrow's Company
Robert Johnson
Member, UN (Stiglitz), Commission on Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System
Roger Saillant
Former CEO, Plug Power; former VP Ford Motor Company
Judith Samuelson
Executive Director, Business and Society Program, Aspen Institute

Explore lessons of the global financial crisis for reconstituting the interface between capital and corporations
Develop strategies for squeezing speculation out of financial markets to align them with long-term wealth creation
Deepen and expand a growing network committed to transformation of capital markets and corporations that serve the public interest

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