Speakers

Join conference speakers from Pennsylvania, New York, Illinois, Delaware, Michigan, Kansas, Missouri, Massachusetts, Canada, Ireland, and Minnesota for an all-day discussion about business and the books they've written on the subject.

 

Sessions

9:00 a.m. Pathologies of Business

  • Ed Balleisen, Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff
  • Eugene Soltes, Why They Do It: Inside the Mind of the White Collar Criminal
  • Commenters: Susanna Blumenthal, Leo Katz, Joe McGrath, Judge Jed Rakoff

10:45 a.m. More Pathologies of Business

  • June Carbone, Shafted: How Women Lose in a Winner Take All World
  • Commenter: Kathy Baker

11:30 a.m. Even More Pathologies of Business

  • Gerrit deGeest, Rents: How Marketing Causes Inequality
  • Commenter: Claire Hill

12:30 p.m. Lunch Keynote

  • David Enrich, Dark Towers
  • Commenter: Eugene Soltes

1:45 p.m. The Workings of Markets

  • Andrew Lo, Adaptive Markets
  • Commenters: Dan Awrey, Brett McDonnell

3:00 p.m. Innovation

  • Tom Cotter, Patent Wars
  • Commenter: Andrew Torrance

3:45 - 5:00 p.m. Panel on Culture

  • Moderator: Claire Hill
  • Commenters: John Borrows, William Casebeer, Thomas Talhelm
  • Additional Participant: Vice Chancellor Travis Laster