Alan Gutterman
Alan Gutterman's prolific output of practical guidance and tools for legal and financial professionals, managers, entrepreneurs, and investors has made him one of the best-selling individual authors in the global legal publishing marketplace. Drawing from over four decades of experience in counseling small and large business enterprises and serving in senior management positions with several technology-based businesses, Alan has authored or edited over 120 published books on management, entrepreneurship, business law and transactions, sustainability, impact investment, business and human rights and corporate social responsibility, civil and human rights of older persons and international business and has also published over 500 chapters and research and background papers on the same topics. As a trusted advisor and skilled academic researcher, his work reflects a deep well of knowledge and appliable wisdom and has been supported and distributed by numerous publishers including Thomson Reuters, Kluwer, Aspatore, Oxford, Routledge, Palgrave Macmillan, Quorum, ABA Press, Aspen, Sweet & Maxwell, Euromoney, Business Expert Press, Harvard Business Publishing, CCH and BNA and is also available through academic social networks including SSRN, Google Scholar and ResearchGate. Books and other publications published under his own imprint, the Sustainable Entrepreneurship Project, have focused on the nexus of sustainable and impact entrepreneurship and sustainable entrepreneurs engaged in developing innovative solutions that positively impact and advance sustainable development, while also achieving long-term business success and profitability and operating in a sustainable manner. His cornerstone work, Business Transactions Solution, is an online-only product available and featured on Thomson Reuters’ Westlaw, the world’s largest legal content platform, which covers the entire lifecycle of a business. Alan has been a partner and senior counsel with internationally recognized law firms providing counseling on general corporate and securities matters, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, international law and transactions, strategic business alliances, technology transfers and intellectual property. He has also served as the chief legal officer of a leading international distributor of IT products headquartered in Silicon Valley and as the chief operating officer of an emerging broadband media company. He has been an adjunct faculty member at several colleges and universities, including Berkeley Law, Golden Gate University, Hastings College of Law, Santa Clara University and the University of San Francisco, teaching classes on corporate finance, venture capital, corporate governance, Japanese business law and law and economic development. He received his A.B., M.B.A., and J.D. from the University of California at Berkeley, a D.B.A. from Golden Gate University, and a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, and he has also been designated as a Credentialed Professional Gerontologist (CPG). For more information about Alan and his activities, please contact him directly at [email protected], follow him on LinkedIn, and visit his personal website to view a comprehensive listing of his works and subscribe to receive updates.
Phone: (510) 684-4421
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Certainly businesses can contribute to respecting and protecting human right rights by complying with the laws and regulations established by States; however, as time has gone by ideas have changed, albeit slowly, and there is now growing support for the notion that while the primary duty to protect human rights remains with States, businesses also have responsibilities to respect human rights in their operations and voluntarily assume accountability and responsibility for the environmental and social impacts of their operational activities. It has been forcefully argued that by implementing policies, practices and initiatives that seek to respect and support the human rights and inclusion of persons with disabilities as employees, customers, suppliers and community members, businesses can realize significant benefits for themselves, persons with disabilities and society in general. Business leaders must recognize the growing movement toward ensuring inclusion of persons with disabilities in all aspects of society and the cogent and compelling business case for supporting disability inclusion. Businesses can act on several fronts including adopting and committing to policies and processes based on a rights-based perspective on disability, embedding disability inclusion in the boardroom, the workforce, and all aspects of organizational culture; community engagement; involvement in the public square through advocacy for disability inclusion and re-imagining products and services.