Professor Sharath Sury - INTRO to 1st SCIFIRM Conference at Santa Clara University (SCU)

Cell Phone Submission 1: Sharath Sury Speaks at the May 15th Santa Clara Initiative for Financial Innovation and Risk Management Conference. Sharath Sury, Executive Director and Founder of SCIFIRM and Dean's Executive Professor of Finance at SCU, heads the two day conference "The Value of Values" and was scheduled as follows:

Friday, May 14, 2010
8:00 AM - Breakfast and Registration
8:45 AM - Welcome and Remarks
Drew Starbird
Dean, Leavey School of Business
Sharath Sury
Director, Santa Clara Initiative for Financial Innovation & Risk Management (SCIFIRM)
9:00 AM - Is Good Governance Valuable?
Brad Barber, UC Davis
Shareholder Activism presentation
10:00 AM - Impact Investing and Behavioral Finance
Hersh Shefrin, Santa Clara University
Impact Investing presentation handout
11:00 AM - Refreshment Break
11:15 AM - Panel : Impact of Community Development Banks and Social Performance Metrics
Saurabh Narain, NCIF and Steve Lydenberg, Domini Funds
Performance metrics presentation
12:15 PM - Lunch
Values and wealth in socially responsible investing
Meir Statman, Santa Clara University
Values and wealth presentation
1:15 PM - Just Good Business: CSR in Practice
Kellie McElhaney, UC Berkeley
Presentation
2:15 PM - Putting Consumers Back into Finance
Peter Tufano, Harvard Business School
Presentation
3:15 PM - Refreshment Break
3:30 PM - CSR, the Cost of Debt and Financial Distress
Allen Goss, Ryerson University
Financial Distress presentation
4:30 PM - Panel : Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Credit Pricing
Nadja Guenster (Maastricht), Allen Goss (Ryerson), Sanjiv Das (SCU)
Guenster presentation
5:30 PM
5:45 PM - Cocktails
Keynote: State of the US Economy, Mario Belotti
6:30 PM - Dinner

Saturday, May 15
8:00 AM - Breakfast
8:30 AM - A Tale of Values-Driven and Profit-Seeking Social Investors
Jeroen Derwall, University of Maastricht
Values-Driven Investors presentation
9:30 AM - Why do Firms Engage in CSR?
Hoje Jo, Santa Clara University
Causal Effect of Corporate Governance paper
Causal effect presentation
10:30 AM - Refreshment Break
10:45 AM - Individual Investors and Social Value Characteristics
John Nofsinger, Washington State University
Conservation, Discrimination, and Salvation: Investors' Social Concerns in the Stock Market paper
11:45 AM - Social Values and Mutual Fund Clienteles
Paul Smeets, University of Maastricht
Social Values presentation
12:45 PM - Box Lunches and Adjournment

The Director, Sharath Sury, and SCIFIRM website emphasized a diverse, and unique roster of speakers from America and Europe whose studies are "groundbreaking scholarship...As an example, only four published studies have demonstrated long-term performance benefits using social investment principles; authors of three of those papers—Derwall/Guenster, Barber, and Statman—will be presenting at this conference."

Mr. Sharath Sury also provided us with the link that all of the presented material will be posted on :

http://www.scu.edu/business/scifirm/conference/schedule.cfm

Special thanks to Professor Sharath Sury for taking the time to brief us on the conference, and we look forward to hearing his thoughts and insight, in-depth, in the near future. Please check out www.blog.suryonline.net for all of the latest news and events regarding Sharath M. Sury, and drop us a line!

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