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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 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.
In this Closer Look, VICI Properties: Creating Value from the Ashes of Caesar’s Demise, we use the example of VICI Properties—a publicly traded REIT that emerged from the bankruptcy of Caesar’s Entertainment—to examine how appropriate governance choices can change the course of a corporation and establish a foundation for long-term success.
The recently updated Quick Guide, Independent Chairman, provides the latest research on whether companies with an independent board chair exhibit better governance quality than companies with a dual chair/CEO. Does separating Chair/CEO increase value? How do shareholders react? Does it improve oversight?
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.
Executive Education Programs
The Rock Center hosts 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
Tyson’s Choice of CFO Raises Concerns About Potential Conflicts of Interest
The Wall Street Journal
The main issue facing the company’s board is ensuring it can terminate the younger Mr. Tyson’s role should he not perform, despite the father-son relationship, said Joseph Grundfest, a senior faculty member in the corporate governance center at Stanford University’s law and business schools. “The core question is whether he…
Read MoreTwitter, Elon Musk Spar Over Legal Preparations as Trial Date Looms
The Wall Street Journal
Meet Michael Klausner, the Stanford law professor who is the biggest critic of the SPAC deal craze — and believes its crash was 'completely predictable'
Business Insider
Enemy of the SPAC: Law Professor Takes Deal Sponsors to Court
Bloomberg Law
SEC Advisory Panel Recommends Oversight of U.S. Accounting Rule Maker
The Wall Street Journal
SEC Panel Advances Plan to Force Investor Focus on Rulemaker
Bloomberg Law
Is the SEC Moving Beyond Disclosure?
The Regulatory Review
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