Wednesday, May 27, 2009

Rutgers Awards Fellowships on Shared Capitalism

On May 22, 2009, Rutgers University released the following press release on Shared Capitalism fellowships. We wanted to share the news with the employee ownership community. The press release can be found on the Rutgers University website as well - http://news.rutgers.edu/medrel/news-releases/2009/05/rutgers-awards-fello-20090522.    Rutgers Awards Fellowships on Shared Capitalism School of Management and Labor Relations brings together top experts May 22, 2009   NEW...

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Thursday, May 21, 2009

View of Employee Ownership from the Hill

The employee ownership community is very excited about new projects and advancements such as: the Rutgers University Employee Ownership fellowships program, the establishment of an Employee Ownership Chair at Rutgers University, and the work of the Aspen Institute’s Center for Business Education Caseplace.org project. In addition, there were no negative ESOP proposals in the Obama Administration’s budget and of late, there have been no hints at Congressional action against ESOPs.   BUT,...

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Thursday, May 14, 2009

An Overview of ESOPs

In June 2008, J. Michael Keeling, president of The ESOP Association and the Association’s affiliated foundation, the Employee Ownership Foundation (the sponsor of this blog), gave a presentation in Granada, Spain to members of Feansal, a Spanish European employee ownership group for Andalusia, Spain. If you would like more information on Feansal, please visit the website at http://www.feansal.es/. Note: the website is in Spanish.   The presentation provides a good explanation...

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Wednesday, May 13, 2009

ESOP Company Named Small Business of the Year by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce

AGM Container Controls located in Tucson, Arizona has been named the Small Business of the Year by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. AGM Container Controls is a member of The ESOP Association. The company was highlighted by the Arizona Daily Star today as well - http://www.azstarnet.com/business/292662.    A second ESOP company, Meier Architecture located in Kennewick, Washington also a member of the Association, was a Northwest Regional Finalist for the award.   If you...

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Tuesday, May 12, 2009

Kelsonian Thoughts

We thought the following might be of some interest to those who think of ESOPs as good public policy.    A recent presentation on the New York cable show Conversations with Harold Hudson Channer featured an interview with Louis Kelso, the father of ESOPs and the philosophical policy known as Kelsonian thought. The title of the show is - "Binary Economics as a Potential Gateway to the Economic Liberation of Humanity and Thus the Whole of the Much Wider Biosphere." It...

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