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The Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance is a joint initiative of Stanford Law School and Stanford Graduate School of Business. The Center was created to advance the understanding and practice of corporate governance in a cross-disciplinary environment where leading academics, business leaders, policymakers, practitioners and regulators can meet and work together. The Center is led by outstanding Faculty with active collaboration from its Advisory Board.
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Research
The Rock Center provides an environment focused on innovation and collaboration, drawing on the world-class resources of Stanford University, and serves as a focal point for sustained empirical research. The Center’s research applies rigorous methods to understand the performance consequences of corporate governance by taking an in-depth and interdisciplinary look at the inner workings of corporate boards, regulators, institutional investors, consultants, and others involved in the governance process.
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The Rock Center Working Paper Series offers an e-library of research papers and abstracts on corporate governance topics. This continuously updated library is accessible through the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Clearinghouse, a collaboration with Sullivan & Cromwell LLP, operates as a database, a repository of original source documents, and a supplier of analytics relating to the enforcement of the FCPA.
The Securities Class Action Clearinghouse (SCAC), a collaboration with Cornerstone Research, provides detailed information related to the prosecution, defense, and settlement of federal class action securities fraud litigation. The SCAC team maintains a filings database of more than 5,000 securities class action lawsuits filed since the passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.
The fully searchable COVID-19 Memo Database includes thousands of memoranda addressing the legal, regulatory, accounting, and governance issues raised by the current COVID-19 crisis.
The Corporate Governance Research Initiative develops insights into the practice of corporate governance to advance intellectual understanding of this critical area of business management.
This most recent Closer Look, ESG Investing: What Shareholders Do Fund Managers Represent? examines individual investor perception of ESG and their willingness to sacrifice returns in the advancement of ESG objectives. How do fund managers balance the interests of their beneficial owners when these interests diverge?
This Closer Look, ESG Ratings: A Compass without Direction, reviews the demand for ESG information, the objectives of ESG ratings providers, how ratings are determined, the evidence of what they achieve, and structural aspects of the industry that potentially influence ratings.
The 2022 Survey of Investors, Retirement Savings, and ESG provides the latest research on how American investors view environmental, social, and governance (ESG) priorities among the companies in their investment portfolios.
Rock Center Shorts
Brief video and podcast sessions with expert guests in conversation with Stanford faculty and Rock Center leadership. Topics focus on current issues in corporate governance for board members, corporate executive leaders and advisors.
Executive Education Programs
The Rock Center hosts executive education programs for directors and senior executives, including our flagship program Stanford Directors’ College, and Directors’ Consortium.
Leadership
News Coverage
Carlyle Taps a Former Goldman Executive to Fill Its Leadership Void
The New York Times
In a new amicus brief, the former S.E.C. chairman Jay Clayton and the former commissioner Joseph Grundfest say that the plaintiff’s argument threatens to vastly expand legal risk for businesses. Those with registered shares are afforded extra protections, and have an easier path to sue. That registered versus unregistered distinction…
Read MoreFormer SEC Chair Clayton Backs Slack At High Court
Law360
Crypto Suits Are Flying High As SPAC Litigation Cools: Report
Law360
GC Cheat Sheet: The Hottest Corporate News Of The Week
Law360
Ex-SEC Officials, Law Professors Challenge New Proxy Rules
Law360
SPAC Defenders Fear Professor’s Victory Means Lawsuit Gold Rush
Bloomberg Law
SPAC Math No Longer Adds Up
Bloomberg
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