June 9, Tuesday
- 7:45 Breakfast
- 8:30 Welcome
Allen L. White, Director, Corporation 20/20
- 8:45 Keynote: A Global Perspective on Restoring the Primacy of the Real Economy
A global perspective on the financialization of the economy and the imperative to restore the primacy of a needs-oriented goods and services organizations committed to long-term wealth creation
Robert Johnson, Member UN (Stiglitz) Commission of Experts, Reforms of the International Monetary and Financial System; Former Chief Economist of the US Senate Banking Committee; former Senior Economist of the US Senate Budget Committee; former managing Director, Soros Fund Management
- 9:30 Panel 1: Principles for the 21st century economic and financial system
The economic crisis has exposed the frailties of global capitalism. What principles should underlie a transformation of the current system to one aligned with a just and sustainable economy?
Moderator: Aron Cramer, CEO, Business for Social Responsibility
Peter Blom, CEO and Chair, Triodos Bank, Netherlands
Robert Johnson, UN Commission of Global Financial Reform
Steve Lydenberg, Chief Investment Officer, Domini.
Raj Thamotheram, Head, Responsible Investment, AXA Investments; Network for Sustainable Financial Markets
- 10:45 Break
- 11:15 Panel 2: Capital and corporations: scaling up social finance
Creating new infrastructures—e.g., organizational, legal, ratings, stock exchanges—to vastly expand the flow of capital to socially-purposeful corporations
Moderator: Tim Smith, Senior Vice President, Walden Asset Management
Ben Bingham, Benchmark Asset Managers
Leslie Christian, President, Portfolio 21 Investments, Inc.
Mark Goyder, Founder Director, Tomorrow’s Company, UK
Andrew Kassoy, Co-founder, B Corporation
- 12:45 Lunch
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1:45 Café-style breakouts
With charge to develop initial action agenda and policy recommendations. Multiple clusters address same topic + spontaneous groups to cover other topics
- Rebuilding global finance
- Is “too big to fail” also “too big to exist”?
- A new Wall St: — the emergence of social capital markets
- Next generation sustainability ratings
- 4:15 Reports from breakouts
- 5:00 Summary of Day 1
- 6:00 Reception
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June 10, Wednesday
- 7:45 Breakfast
- 8:30 Reflections on Day 1
- 9:00 Panel 3: Beyond the crisis: foundations for a new regulatory regime to foster long-term wealth creation
What are the pivotal issues and opportunities, for reshaping law and regulation to align business practices with long-term wealth?
Moderator: Judith Samuelson, Executive Director, Aspen Institute Business and Society Program
Susan Mac Cormac, Partner Morrison & Foerster
Richard Rosen, Senior Fellow, Tellus Institute
Damon Silvers, Associate General Counsel AFL-CIO; Member, Congressional Oversight Committee on TARP
Rob Weissman, Director, Essential Action
- 10:30 Break
- 11:00 Panel 4: Building sustainability from within: harnessing capital to drive long-term horizons
Strategies for governance, policies and management to neutralize short-term pressures and achieve alignment with long-term wealth creation
Moderator: Peter Senge, Society for Organizational Learning and MIT
Jeffrey Hollender, CEO, Seventh Generation
Wayne Johnson, former VP University Relations, Hewlett-Packard
Roger Saillant, former VP, Energy Transformation Systems Group, Ford Motor Co. and CEO, Plug Power
- 12:40 Lunch
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1:30 Café-style breakouts
With charge to develop initial action agenda and policy recommendations. Multiple clusters addressing same topic + spontaneous groups to cover other topics:
- What is a “fair” return to capital?
- Should government elevate its role in guiding investment practices
- State innovations in reshaping corporate law
- Rethinking fiduciary duty
- Learning sustainability in corporations
- 3:30 Next steps
- 4:00 Adjourn
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