Policy and Strategy

Nominating Committee Issues and CEO Succession

Board Oversight and Spotting the Warning Signs for Management Failure

Compensation Committee Issues

Audit Committee -- Qualifications, Responsibilities, and Content

Finance

Directors' Fiduciary Duties: The Core Duties of Directors, and What They Mean in Practice

Power and Persuasion: How Effective Directors Influence CEOs and Board Decisions



The Directors' Consortium is accredited by Institutional Shareholder Services as a Preferred Boardroom Education Program.

Future sessions of this program will rotate among Chicago, Stanford, and Tuck.

The next date for the Directors' Consortium is scheduled for February 25-27, 2009 at Stanford GSB.
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Steven N. Kaplan

Neubauer Family Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance
The University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

Steven Kaplan teaches an advanced M.B.A. course in corporate financial management at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, where he is consistently ranked as one of the best instructors. Professor Kaplan was designated as one of the "Masters of the Classroom" by BusinessWeek magazine. He has been a top-rated teacher at the GSB in BusinessWeek's surveys since 1992, being named one of the top twelve business school teachers in the United States in 1994 and one of top four teachers of entrepreneurship in the United States in 1996.

His research, teaching, and consulting focus on corporate restructuring, corporate governance, and corporate finance.

Professor Kaplan serves on the boards of directors of several companies including Morningstar and Liberty Acorn Funds.




 
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