BACK TO SCHOOL
As the 2014-15 academic year begins, the museum recommends these materials for the teaching and study of accounting and auditing, business, economics and law:
- Timeline, with financial regulatory developments from 1930 to the present
- Pitt Committee and Lessons Learned, on the legislative efforts to define insider trading, in The Mechanics of Legislation: Congress, the SEC and Financial Regulation Gallery
- Steady Drumbeat of Corporate Scandals: Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, in Wrestling With Reform: Financial Scandals and the Legislation They Inspired Gallery
- May 21, 2013 Interview with Curtis Barnette, former Chairman and CEO, Bethlehem Steel Corporation
- June 20, 2013 Interview with Arthur Levitt, former SEC Chairman and former Chairman, American Stock Exchange
- Adolph Berle's 1931 Draft on Corporation Law
- December 16 and December 17, 1986 SEC Public Hearings on New York Stock Exchange Proposal Amending of "One Share, One Vote"
- 1996 First Century of the CPA
The Back to School Feature is made possible through the generous support of Morrison & Foerster LLP.
2015 WRITING AWARD In Conjunction with The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board Gallery on Municipal Securities Regulation
Join in the competition for the museum's 2015 writing award, recognizing an essay on any area of municipal securities regulation. This year's competition will be part of the building of The Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board Gallery on Municipal Securities Regulation.
All visitors to the virtual museum and archive are welcome to enter. The writing award guidelines and release provide information on submission and the review process.
The 2015 writing award recipient will join with John Okray, who received the 2014 writing award for his essay, Mutual Fund Boards on Governance: Do As I Say Not As I Do. The essay selected for 2015 will also be permanently added to Papers. It will be linked within the MSRB Gallery, opening in the museum on December 1, 2015. The recipient will receive a $5,000 award at the June 4, 2015 Annual Meeting program.
The deadline for submission is December 31, 2014. Contact curator@sechistorical.org for further information.