Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance

About Us

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 6,000 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 COVID-19 pandemic.

 

 

The Corporate Governance Research Initiative develops research and insights into the practice of corporate governance to advance intellectual understanding of this critical area of business management.

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This most recent Closer Look, Seven Gaping Holes in our Knowledge of Corporate Governance, highlights the gap in the understanding of corporate governance, including in board oversight, CEO recruitment and compensation, the advancement of shareholder and stakeholder welfare, and more.

This Closer Look, The Evolving Battlefronts of Shareholder Activism, considers current trends in shareholder activism, universal proxies, the increase in “activism experience” among directors and activist strategies. With regulatory and market environments in flux, is the power balance shifting? If so, toward whom?

This newly updated guide in the Core Concepts series, The Principles of Corporate Governance, is a roadmap to understanding the fundamentals of corporate governance based on theory, empirical research, and data.

Upcoming Events

Recent Online Events

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.

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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.

 

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Leadership

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Robert M. Daines

Robert M. Daines

  • Pritzker Professor of Law and Business
  • Associate Dean for Global Programs
  • Senior Faculty, Rock Center for Corporate Governance
David F. Larcker

David F. Larcker

  • James Irvine Miller Professor of Accounting, Emeritus, Graduate School of Business
  • Senior Faculty, Rock Center for Corporate Governance

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Contact the Rock Center

559 Nathan Abbott Way
Stanford, CA 94305
rockcenter@law.stanford.edu

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