CORPORATE TRANSPARENCY AND ACCOUNTABILITY: THE ROLE OF INFORMATION DISCLOSURE
Friday, February 6, 2009
The National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC
9:00am-4:15pm
Lack of corporate transparency is at the heart of todays financial crisis,
and also complicates global trade. In the U.S., information disclosure
represents the newest wave of regulatory approaches in a variety of sectors,
including the environment, workplace safety, food safety, and finance. This
is an opportune moment to take stock of what is known about the costs and
benefits of information disclosure, to learn from todays cutting-edge
research, and to identify the remaining gaps in our understanding. This
one-day, two-part workshop will connect the worlds of practice, policy, and
scholarship, identifying cross-cutting issues and opportunities that arise
in a variety of sectors.
The morning session will encourage cross-sector dialogue by bringing
together panels of scholars, policy makers, nongovernmental organizations
and corporations to discuss:
Information disclosure regulations
* To what extent are information disclosure regulations delivering their
intended results?
* How are customers, investors, and other stakeholders responding to the
disclosed information?
Voluntary disclosure
* What information do firms voluntarily choose to disclose, and when?
* What effects does voluntary disclosure have?
Disclosure credibility and certification
* To what extent is corporate information disclosure credible?
* Are mechanisms such as third-party verification enhancing its credibility?
Additional sessions will address future research needs and cutting-edge
research methods. In the afternoon, several academic working papers on
information disclosure strategy and policy will also be presented. Confirmed
speakers from academia, government agencies, and non-governmental
organizations include:
- Hyunhoe Bae, Syracuse University
- Lori Bird, National Renewable Energy Laboratory
- Mark Cohen, Resources for the Future
- Andrew Daughety, Vanderbilt University
- Pauline Ippolito, Federal Trade Commission
- Andrew King, Dartmouth College
- Ronald R. King, Washington University
- Michael Lenox, University of Virginia
- Tom Lyon, University of Michigan
- Yue Li, University of Toronto
- John Mayo, Georgetown University
- John Maxwell, Univ. of Western Ontario
- Zoe Riddell, Carbon Disclosure Project
- Jay Shimshack, Tulane University
- Jodi Short, Georgetown University
- Michael Toffel, Harvard University
- Andres Vinelli, Public Company Accounting Oversight Board
- David Weil, Boston University
To register for this event or for more information, see
http://cbpp.georgetown.edu or email Andrea Salvatore at
ams287@georgetown.edu
This free event is organized by Thomas Lyon of the Erb Institute for Global
Sustainable Enterprise at the University of Michigan, John Mayo of the
Georgetown Center for Business & Public Policy, and Michael Toffel of the
Harvard Business School.
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Michael Toffel
Assistant Professor | Harvard Business School
Morgan Hall 497 | Boston MA 02163
+1-617-384-8043
http://people.hbs.edu/mtoffel/
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