Alan S. Gutterman

Board Oversight of Sustainability (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The role of corporations and other business organizations in society has become a hotly debated issue that has attracted the attention of numerous participants in the political arena; however, until recently board members generally showed little interest in the debate and remained focused on their traditional role of maximizing shareholder value. It is now becoming clear that questions regarding the role of business are tied to essential strategic and operational sustainability-related issues that are critical to the discharge of directors' responsibilities with respect to setting the long-term strategy of their companies and which have attracted the attention of investors, consumers and other stakeholders upon which companies depend for their survival. A number of studies have confirmed that board oversight is one of the top drivers of a company's attention to sustainability, a result that is not surprising given that the board is uniquely situation within the organizational hierarchy to ensure that sustainability is integrated into the long-term business strategy and that due consideration is given to social and environmental trends that will impact the company's operations and the markets in which it operates. While CEOs may come and go, and short-term pressures will inevitably batter all companies at some point, the board can offer long-term leadership continuity on sustainability through its strategic planning decisions and succession planning for the CEO and other senior executives. Traditional notions of directors' fiduciary duties, which assumed primacy of shareholders' interests and maximizing shareholder value, are giving way to a model of directors' duties that gives due weight to the interests of stakeholders and this book is intended to provide directors and their professional advisors with a practical guide to board oversight of sustainability that covers drivers and business benefits of corporate sustainability, the framework for directors' adoption and oversight of sustainability, roles and activities of board committees and evaluation and improvement of sustainable governance processes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sustainable Entrepreneurship Project
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781393408598
• Artikelnr.: 56779337

Autorenporträt

This book was written by Alan S. Gutterman, whose prolific output of practical guidance for legal and financial professionals, entrepreneurs and investors has made him one of the best-selling individual authors in the global legal publishing marketplace. 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 includes almost 200 book-length modules covering the entire lifecycle of a business. Alan has also authored or edited over 80 books on sustainable entrepreneurship, leadership and management, business transactions, international business and technology management for a number of publishers including Thomson Reuters, Practical Law, Kluwer, Oxford, Quorum, ABA Press, Aspen, Euromoney, Business Expert Press, Harvard Business Publishing and BNA. Alan has extensive experience as a partner and senior counsel with internationally recognized law firms counseling small and large business enterprises in the areas of general corporate and securities matters, venture capital, mergers and acquisitions, international law and transactions and strategic business alliances, and has also held senior management positions with several technology-based businesses including service 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, Santa Clara University and the University of San Francisco, teaching classes on corporate finance, venture capital and law and economic development, He has also launched and oversees projects relating to sustainable entrepreneurship and ageism. 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. For more information about Alan and his activities, please contact him directly at [e-mail], follow him on LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/alangutterman/) and visit his website at alangutterman.com.