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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.
In the recent Closer Look, Environmental Spinoffs: The Attempt to Dump Liability Through Spin and Bankruptcy, we examine the practice of spinning off environmental liabilities into a separate company that is inadequately capitalized to satisfy them. How widespread is this type of activity? Are current governance mechanisms adequate to protect against it?
The latest Closer Look examines the rise of employee activism and its implications on corporate mission, the board, and management. Protests from Within: Engaging with Employee Activists
This recent Closer Look, Gaming the System: Three ‘Red Flags’ of Potential 10b5-1 Abuse, presents evidence on the trading behavior of corporate executives who use these plans to engage in opportunistic, large-scale selling that appears to undermine the very purpose of Rule 10b5-1.
The most recent Quick Guide, ESG and Stakeholders, looks at the practical implications of ESG and stakeholder needs on the corporation. It covers types of stakeholders, their role in governance, legal and economic implications of ESG, assessing ESG performance, and ESG disclosures.
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 several domestic and international executive education programs for directors and senior executives, including our flagship program, Stanford Directors’ College, as well as Directors’ Consortium, and the Stanford/NVCA Venture Capital Symposium.
Leadership
News Coverage
Huarong’s Woes are a Warning to Lazy Investors
Financial Times
“It is the test case par excellence about Beijing’s willingness to impose market discipline on the financial sector,” “I don’t think they can let Huarong go down . . . but they may have no choice but to impose haircuts on the bondholders”.
Read MoreElon Musk Impostors Scammed $2 Million in Cryptocurrency, U.S. Says
The Seattle Times
The SPACsplosion has Reached a Reckoning
MarketWatch
5 Lessons From The Rise And Fall Of SPACs
Forbes
Fate Of Coke’s Diversity Program Unknown With New GC
Law360
Jobchain To Deploy a Platform for Jobsearch and Crypto Payments to Millions
International Business Times
Regulators Ramp Up Scrutiny of SPACs
Institutional Investor
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