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Recent Lectures

31st Annual Economic Seminar

Charles I. Plosser, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and former dean and professor at the Simon Graduate School of Business, University of Rochester, presented his 31st annual Economic Seminar at noon luncheon on December 1, 2009, at the Hyatt Regency Rochester. Plosser, an economist of international distinction, assumed the Philly Fed presidency in August 2006.
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4th Sands Leadership Lecture

Professor Sydney Finkelstein, Steven Roth Professor of Management at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, spoke at Simon for the 4th Sands Leadership Lecture. The topic of his presentation was leadership and decision making and trying to answer why smart and experienced leaders make bad decisions.
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Michael C. Jensen

          Internationally renowned finance scholar and former Simon School professor Michael C. Jensen delivered an optional five-day leadership course for first-and second year students and alumni at Simon during last year's Orientation. Jensen is the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School, and managing director of the organizational strategy practice at Monitor Company.

Jenson           Renowned finance scholar Michael C. Jensen presented his groundbreaking course on leadership during the fourth annual Leadership Seminar Series, “The Ontological Foundations of Leadership and Performance,” at the Simon Graduate School of Business from September 4─8, 2008 in Gleason Hall, on the University of Rochester River Campus. The Leadership Seminar was open to the public.

          The course was co-taught with Alan Scherr, a consultant based in Rhinebeck, N.Y., Steve Zaffron of the Vanto Group and Werner Erhard, the creator of innovative ideas and models of individual, organizational and social transformation and recipient of the 1988 Mahatma Gandhi Humanitarian Award.

            “In keeping with our motto, Where Thinkers Become Leaders™, the Simon School is committed to using rigorous training in finance, economics and other disciplines to help students become better leaders,” says Dean Mark Zupan. “This seminar, the result of Jensen’s extensive research on the study of leadership, creates a set of tools to develop the skills necessary to become an effective leader.”

            A financial economist and organizational theorist, Jensen developed the principal-agent model with the late former Simon School Dean William H. Meckling. Their paper, “Theory of the Firm: Managerial Behavior, Agency Costs and Ownership Structure,” is one of the most downloaded finance research papers in the history of the Social Science Research Network.

Michael C. Jensen