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The Brown Spring Forum 2007

Economics, Entrepreneurship & Technology

Friday, April 27 — Sunday, April 29, 2007
Brown Campus, Providence, RI

To register for the event, please click here

Friday, April 27

2:00 – 4:30 pm

Economics Honor Student Thesis Presentations :

(Cabinet Building, 68 Waterman St , to right of Robinson Hall; Seminar Room, 2nd Floor)

  • Effects of Time Pressure on Decision Making: Evidence from Auctions Experiments, Alex R. Tellez
  • Deal or No Deal: Understanding Variations in Risk Taking Behavior, Elizabeth Cameron Stewart
  • Essays in International Financial Economics: Microfinance, FDI and Asset Bubbles, Zachary Townsend
  • Out of the Pits: The Latest Evolution of Futures Trading in Chicago, Nathaniel Monzack
  • The Impact of Internet on the Real Estate Market: Evidence from the Craig's List Website, Gabriel Lepine
  • The Mathematics of Beauty: The Divine Proportion's Effect on Facial Attractiveness, Benjamin Safran

 5:00 – 6:00 pm

Entrepreneurship Keynote Speaker, a Bernard I. Fain Lecture

(MacMillan Hall # 117; Thayer St. between George & Waterman)

Jeff Stibel, '99, President and Chief Executive Officer, Web.com

The Contrarian Entrepreneur: How to Grow Despite What You Know

Jeffrey M. Stibel was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Web.com, Inc. (NASDAQ: WWWW) and a member of the Board of Directors in August 2005. Web.com, formerly Interland, Inc., is a leading provider of websites and web services that has built more than 4 million websites for small businesses and consumers through its patented technologies

Saturday, April 28

MacMillan Hall # 117; Thayer St. between George & Waterman

9:15 – 9:45 am

Coffee and Registration

9:45 – 10:00 am

Welcome, Dean of the Faculty, Rajiv Vohra
Alumni coordinator, Susan Farrell ‘72

10:00 – 11:15 am

Changing Structure of the US Economy

Chair, George Borts, Professor of Economics

  • Macro overview: federal deficit, social security costs
  • Mass Incarceration and American Values, Glen Loury, the Merton P. Stoltz professor of the Social Sciences, Brown Department of Economics
  • Baby Boomers, Retirement and Stock Markets, David Weil, Brown Professor of Economics

 

11:15 – 12:30

Business Regulation versus Global Competition

Keynote Speaker – SEC Commissioner, Annette Nazareth,’78

followed by commentary and discussion

  • Jennifer Murphy, '86, CFO, Legg Mason Capital Management
  • David Brown, Chairman, Pride International; Chair, Audit Committee of EMCOR Group

12:30 – 2:00 pm

Luncheon and Speaker (Sayles Hall, College Green)

Entrepreneurship in Action at Brown – Professor John Donoghue discusses his world-class neuroscience research and how he creates faculty spin-off companies

2:00– 3:15 pm

Rethinking Entrepreneurship: Motivating the Game Generation

Chair, Richard Johnson, '72, Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP

  • Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, Robert Litan, Senior Vice President for Research & Policy, Kauffman Foundation
  • The New Creative Work Environment - Formal and Informal, William Harris, ’97, Principal, Katzenbach Partners
  • The Entrepreneurial City – Seattle Culture, Ed Lazowska, ’72, Bill & Melinda Gates Chair of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Washington

3:15– 4:30 pm

Energy, Climate and Tipping Points

Chair, Susan Farrell, '72, Senior Director, PFC Energy

  • An Ill Wind Blows, George Woodwell , Founder and Director Emeritus, Woods Hole Research Center
  • Clean Energy Solutions – Venture Capital Funding, William Osborn, CEO, Mass Green Energy Fund
  • Green Energy Investing, Jack Robinson, '64, President & Chief Investment Officer of Winslow Management

4:30 – 5:30 pm

Reception

Sunday, April 29

Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition

(MacMillan  Hall # 117; Thayer St. between George & Waterman)

10:30 – 11:00 am

Light snacks

11:00 am – 1:30 pm

 

 

Five Business Plan Team Finalists present for 15 minutes each, followed by 15 minutes of Q&A from the Judges:

  • Dave DeLuca, '85, Managing Director Equities Division, Lehman Brothers
  • Mike Sanderson,'65, Former CEO, Nasdaq Europe
  • Brian Stark,'77, Co-Founder, Stark Investments
  • Jeff Stibel,'99, CEO, Web.com
  • Steve Siegel, ScM '83, PhD '85, President, EP Advisory Board
1:30 - 2:30 pm Comedy entertainment and break while Judges deliberate; light snacks available
3:00 - 3:45 pm Keynote Address: Dave DeLuca, '85, Managing Director Equities Division, Lehman Brothers; founder and former co-chair of the Equities Division Diversity Council ; one of 40 employees honored with first and second annual Chairman's Award for Outstanding Client Service (2005, 2006)
3:45 - 4:00 pm Presentation to 3 Entrepreneurship Winners

Please click here to register for the event. 


This interdisciplinary event is sponsored by the Brown Alumni Association, the Brown Club of Rhode Island, the Department of Economics, the Economics Department Undergraduate Group, the Division of Engineering, the Brown University Entrepreneurship Program, the Brown Forum for Enterprise and the Fain Lecture Fund. Directions are available through the Brown website. Maps at http://fm-cad.plantops.brown.edu/maps/.


For more information on this event or questions please contact Susan Farrell at susan.farrell.72@alumni.brown.edu