Economics, Entrepreneurship & Technology

Please join the Brown community in welcoming back many alums to campus where they will present on a variety of exciting topics outlined below.

Cost: $25 for BFE Members; $35 for non-members; students and sponsors free of charge (lunch and reception included in registration fee)

Friday, April 27

2:00 – 4:30 pm
Economics Honor Student Thesis Presentations

Location: 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

Location: 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

9:15 – 9:45 am
Coffee and Registration

9:45 – 10:00 am
Welcome, Dean of the Faculty, Rajiv Vohra and Alumni coordinator, Susan Farrell ‘72

10:00 am - 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 pm
Business Regulation versus Global Competition

Keynote Speaker – SEC Commissioner, Annette Nazareth,’78

• Jennifer Murphy, '86, CFO, Legg Mason Capital Management, commentary and discussion

David Brown, Chairman, Pride International; Chair, Audit Committee of EMCOR Group

12:30 - 2:00 pm
Luncheon and Speaker
Location: 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

• The Implications of Climate Change, 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
Networking Reception

Sunday, April 29

10:30-11:30 am
Light Snacks

11:00 - 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

1:30 - 2:30 pm
Comedy entertainment and break while Judges deliberate; light snacks available

3:00-3:45 pm
Keynote Address: Dave DeLuca, '85, Managing Director Equities Division, Lehman Brothers; founder and former co-chair of the Equities Division Diversity Council ; one of 40 employees honored with first and second annual Chairman's Award for Outstanding Client Service (2005, 2006)

3:45 - 4:00 pm
Presentation of the Winners