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Corporate Governance Research Program

Our Goal

The Corporate Governance Research Program, established in 2006, aims to become a leader in developing systematic knowledge and education about domestic and international corporate governance.

Corporate governance refers to a broad collection of mechanisms used to guide the behavior of managers so that the interests of shareholders and other relevant parties are protected. Despite the widespread attention that corporate governance receives from the press, equity investors, and government agencies, there is little empirical evidence that clearly demonstrates how, or whether, corporate governance practices affect outcomes important to investors. More basically, there is little understanding of which practices are the most important.

Under faculty leadership, the program aims to leverage the research scholarship of the Graduate School of Business faculty members to generate new insights into the fundamental "big issues" surrounding corporate governance.

Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University

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The Corporate Governance Research Program is part of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University, a joint initiative of the Stanford Graduate School of Business and Stanford Law School.

The Rock Center was created with the vision that advances in the understanding and practice of corporate governance are most likely to occur in a cross–disciplinary environment where academics, economists, lawyers, financial experts, political scientists, engineers and practitioners can meet and work together.

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  • Tackling Corporate Governance
    Managers, directors, and investors are all blamed for corporate missteps. David F. Larcker, the James Irvin Miller Professor of Accounting at the Graduate School of Business, who heads the School's corporate governance program, says Business School researchers are positioned to temper strong opinions with more facts (from Stanford Business, August 2006).

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