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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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Securities Class Action Clearinghouse (SCAC)

A collaboration with Cornerstone Research, the SCAC provides detailed information on the prosecution, defense, and settlement of federal class action securities fraud litigation. We maintain a filings database of more than 6,400 securities class action lawsuits filed since the passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995.

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Rock Center Working Paper Series

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).

COVID-19 Legal Memo Database

COVID-19 Memo Database

The fully searchable database includes thousands of memoranda addressing the legal, regulatory, accounting, and governance issues raised by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Programs

Upcoming Events

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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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SLS Announces New Faculty Co-Leaders of Rock Center for Corporate Governance

Colleen Honigsberg

  • Professor of Law
  • Bernard Bergreen Faculty Scholar
  • Faculty Co-Director, Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance
  • Senior Fellow, Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research (SIEPR)
David F. Larcker

David F. Larcker

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

News Coverage

AI is so hot even KFC and Williams-Sonoma execs are talking about it

The Washington Post

“Most SPACs are just everyday, ordinary companies,” said Stanford law professor Michael Klausner. “But they’re disproportionately … fad-like companies.”

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Contact the Rock Center

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

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