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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 new 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?
Scrutiny of CEO pay increases during times of economic stress. The most recent Closer Look examines the CEO compensation decisions of large publicly traded companies in the U.S. following the spread of COVID-19. Sharing the Pain: How Did Boards Adjust CEO Pay in Response to COVID-19?
Another Closer Look, Blindsided by Social Risk: How Do Companies Survive a Storm of Their Own Making? examines how social risk manifests itself and what action boards and companies can take to mitigate its impact.
The most recent Research Spotlight, Board Composition, Quality, & Turnover, looks at appointing outside CEOs as directors, industry expertise and director skills in relation to performance, stock market reaction to director resignations, and whether directors are penalized for poor oversight.
Online Events
These online sessions address the novel and difficult challenges posed by the ongoing COVID-19 crisis and other contemporary public policy issues implicating corporate America.
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
Biden likely to tap Gary Gensler to lead SEC, but the decision isn’t final
Washington Post
“Let’s put it this way: There will be thousands of devils buried in thousands of details,” “Depending on what the rules are, they could be quite significant. … This is a guy who is going to hit the ground running.”
Read MoreWorking from home makes it easier to blow whistle on your boss
Chicago Tribune
What’s a SPAC? And should I invest in one?
MarketWatch
XRP Loses Support as SEC Files Case Against Ripple
Investopedia
Justices' Goldman Review May Finally Offer Class Cert. Clarity
Law360
Dropbox Becomes Third California Superior Court Decision To Enforce Delaware Corporations’ Federal Forum Provision For Securities Act Lawsuits
JD Supra blog
Inside the firing of a Salesforce executive who ignored Marc Benioff's company policy and took a board seat
Business Insider
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