Sunday, March 19, 2006

Center to look at corporate governance


With the trial of former Enron executives continuing to make headlines, Stanford Law School recently received a $10 million donation from Arthur Rock and his wife, Toni Rembe, for the further study of corporate governance. The new Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance will be the first of its kind on the west coast.

As a multidisciplinary undertaking, the Rock Center aims to bring together faculty members from across the University to research corporate governance and disseminate the findings to business people and policy makers. The new center will be directed by Law School Profs. Joseph Grundfest, a former commissioner of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Robert Daines, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs.

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