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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Kent L. Womack

Professor of Finance
Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College

Professor Kent Womack is a Professor of Finance at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Previously, Kent was a vice president in the Equities Division at Goldman, Sachs & Co. from 1982 to 1989, working directly with portfolio managers and security analysts, the main subjects of his academic research. He began his academic career at Tuck in 1994. Earlier, he also worked as a CPA at Price Waterhouse.

His research interests focus on the value of security analysis, security analysts' conflicts of interest, and the underwriting of IPOs. At Tuck, he teaches courses in investments (a.k.a. first-year MBA course "Capital Markets") and the psychology of decision making ("Managerial Decision Making").

His prior educational degrees include at B. A. in Economics and Mathematics from Yale University (1978) and an M.B.A. from the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University (1982) and a PhD from Cornell University (1995).




 
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