The Brown Spring Forum 2007

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