Joel Mokyr, Robert H. Stroz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and History, Northwestern University.

Robert Gibbons, Sloan Distinguished Professor of Management, MIT Sloan School of Management and Professor, MIT Department of Economics, “Discord (and Repair?) in Relational Contracts: An introduction to work in progress.”

Simon Levin,James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Princeton University, “Evolutionary Perspectives on Business Strategy.”

Niall Ferguson, Laurence A.Tisch, Professor of History, Harvard University, “Risk Management in Finance and Geopolitics: A Tale of Two Silos.”

Andrew W. Lo, Charles E. and Susan T. Harris Professor, Professor of Finance, and Director of the Laboratory for Financial Engineering, MIT Sloan School of Management, “Big Data, Big Brother, and Financial Regulation.”

Antoinette Schoar, Michael M. Koerner (1949) Professor of Entrepreneurship and Professor of Finance, MIT Sloan School of Management, ”Shaped by Booms and Busts: The Impact of Economic Conditions on Managerial Outcomes.”

H. Rodgin Cohen, Senior Chairman and Partner, Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, “The Financial Crisis and Regulatory Response.”

Richard H. Thaler, Ralph and Dorothy Keller Distinguished Service Professor of Behavioral Science and Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, “The Behavioral Economics of Swindling and Selling: A Lecture in Honor of Arthur Leff.”

Luigi Zingales, Robert C. McCormack Professor of Entrepreneurship and Finance and the David G. Booth Faculty Fellow, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, “The Future of Securities Regulation.”

Raghuram G. Rajan, Eric J. Gleacher Distinguished Service Professor of Finance, the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business, “Landed Interests and Financial Under-development in the United States.”

Oliver Hart, Andrew E. Furer Professor of Economics, Harvard University, “Partial Contracts.”

Lucian Bebchuk, William J. Friedman and Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance, Harvard Law School, “The Myth of the Shareholder Franchise.”

J. Mark Ramseyer , Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies, Harvard Law School, “Who Appoints Them, What Do they Do? Evidence on Outside Directors from Japan.”

Ronald J. Gilson ‘71, Charles J. Meyers Professor of Law and Business, Stanford Law School and Marc and Eva Stern Professor of Law and Business, Columbia University School of Law, “Venture Capital Markets.”