Governance Videos

Axway CTO Dave Bennett, Taher Elgamal, Bernard Debauche, and Joe Fisher discuss the future of cloud computing, governance, risk management, convergence, compliance and much more at Axway Connections 2009 in Phoenix, Arizona.

Nathan Eagle, Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, infers behavioral dynamics on a broad spectrum of scales using technology; from risky behavior in a group of MIT freshman, to cholera outbreaks in Rwanda and wealth in the UK, to disease transmission and slum formations in East Africa. Though the analytical techniques are sophisticated, the [...]

Nathan Eagle, Omidyar Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute, infers behavioral dynamics on a broad spectrum of scales using technology; from risky behavior in a group of MIT freshman, to cholera outbreaks in Rwanda and wealth in the UK, to disease transmission and slum formations in East Africa. Though the analytical techniques are sophisticated, the [...]

Audio (MP3) This podcast from the "Corporate Governance and Managing Firm Risk Conference" on October 1 & 2, 2009 begins with an introduction by Weinberg Center director Charles Elson and University of Delaware President Patrick Harker. Then, University of Maryland Professor Dalida Kadyrzhanova presents a paper co-authored with NYU Professor Kose John, entitled "Agency Costs of Idiosyncratic Volatility, Corporate Governance, and Investment." The paper is followed by a discussion led by Professor Robert Bushman of the University of North Carolina.

Audio (MP3) The Weinberg Center presents the "Corporate Governance and Managing Firm Risk" Conference in podcast form. The conference was held on October 1 and 2, 2009 on the campus of the University of Delaware in Newark, Delaware. The keynote address was delivered by Professor Robert Engle of the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at New York University. In 2003 Professor Engle was honored with the Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in methods of analyzing economic time series with time-varying volatility (ARCH). The title of his presentation is, "Global Financial Stability and Long Run Risk."

Audio (MP3) This podcast is a recording of the NACD's Blue Ribbon Commission Panel on their report, "Risk Governance: Balancing Risk and Reward." The panel convened for the "Corporate Governance and Managing Firm Risk Conference" at the Weinberg Center for Corporate Governance at the University of Delaware. The panelists addressed two questions: "How did boards respond to the financial crisis?" and "How should they have responded?"

Berkman Fellow David Weinberger investigates the origin of modern “information”, trying to understand what about it led us to embrace it as the dominant–paradigmatic–way of understanding ourselves and our world. David Weinberger will present an informal sketch of a direction, suggesting that we leaped into information because it reflected a long-held but squirrely metaphysics. Download [...]

Berkman Fellow David Weinberger investigates the origin of modern information , trying to understand what about it led us to embrace it as the dominant paradigmatic way of understanding ourselves and our world. David Weinberger will present an informal sketch of a direction, suggesting that we leaped into information because it reflected a long-held but squirrely metaphysics. Click Above [...]

An excerpt from National Arts Strategies' Talk with an Expert: Working with Your Board featuring Professor Rob Wiltbank.

An excerpt from National Arts Strategies' Talk with an Expert: Working with Your Board featuring Professor Rob Wiltbank.

Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University School of Law and Jake Shapiro, Executive Director of the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), discuss public media s role in providing public discourses, advancing democratic capabilities, and empowering publics to communicate and organize. The two investigate whether the United States has a system of public media that is able to support [...]

Ellen Goodman of Rutgers University School of Law and Jake Shapiro, Executive Director of the Public Radio Exchange (PRX), discuss public media s role in providing public discourses, advancing democratic capabilities, and empowering publics to communicate and organize. The two investigate whether the United States has a system of public media that is able to support [...]

John Berlau, Director of the Center for Investors and Entrepreneurs at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, discusses plans by the Obama administration to impose new restrictions on credit and finance companies.

Does accessibility of the executive mansion to, at least, public view reflect the extent of participatory democracy? Here, we compare the situations in Malawi and the United States.