All John R. Raben/Sullivan & Cromwell Fellow Lectures
October 7, 2024
Melissa Dell, Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University, “The Dynamics of Economic Organization: Persistence and Change.”
April 8, 2024
Nicholas Bloom, William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University, “The Glorious Future of Working From Home.”
September 19, 2022
Joshua D. Rauh, The Ormond Family Professor of Finance, Stanford Graduate School of Business and Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, “Regulating Investment Management and Retirement Plans in the Age of ESG.”
February 7, 2022
Carmen Reinhart, Senior Vice President and Chief Economist, The World Bank Group, “Central Banks and the Inflationary Aftermath of COVID-19.
November 12, 2018
Joel Mokyr, Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University, “Is Technological Change a Thing of the Past: Lessons from the Industrial Revolution.”
April 9, 2018
Robert Gibbons, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management and Professor, MIT Department of Economics, “Discord (and Repair?) in Relational Contracts: An introduction to work in progress.”
January 30, 2017
Simon Levin, James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, “Evolutionary Perspectives on Business Strategy.”
February 29, 2016
Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History, Harvard University, “Risk Management in Finance and Geopolitics: A Tale of Two Silos.”
February 23, 2015
Sendhil Mullainathan, Professor of Economics, Harvard University, “Against Against Prediction: How Machine Learning Can Improve the Legal System.”
April 7, 2014
Andrew W. Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, Professor of Finance, and Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering, MIT Sloan School of Management, “Big Data, Big Brother, and Financial Regulation.”
October 15, 2012
Antoinette Schoar, Michael M. Koerner (1949) Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management, “Shaped by Booms and Busts: The Impact of Economic Conditions on Managerial Outcomes.”
March 26, 2012
H. Rodgin Cohen, Senior Chairman and Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, “The Financial Crisis and Regulatory Response.”
October 4, 2010
Richard H. Thaler, Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, “The Behavioral Economics of Swindling and Selling: A Lecture in Honor of Arthur Leff.”
February 16, 2009
Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and the David G. Booth Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, “The Future of Securities Regulation.”
April 29, 2008
Raghuram G. Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, “Landed Interests and Financial Underdevelopment in the United States.”
February 19, 2007
Bengt Holmstrom, Paul A. Samuelson Professor, MIT Department of Economics, “Corporate Governance in Context.”
April 24, 2006
Oliver Hart, Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University, “Partial Contracts.”
November 15, 2005
Lucian Bebchuk, William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, Harvard Law School, “The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise.”
March 30, 2004
J. Mark Ramseyer, Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, Harvard Law School, “Who Appoints Them, What Do they Do? Evidence on Outside Directors from Japan.”
May 7, 2003
Paul G. Mahoney ’84, Brokaw Professor of Corporate Law and Albert C. BeVier Research Professor, University of Virginia School of Law, “Searching for Market Manipulation in the Pre-SEC Era.”
February 28, 2002
Ronald J. Gilson ’71, Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School and Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business, Columbia University School of Law, “Venture Capital Markets.”
November 27, 2000
John C. Coffee, Jr. ’69, Adolf A. Berle Professor of Law, Columbia University School of Law, “The Rise of Dispersed Ownership: The Role of Law in The Separation of Ownership and Control.”