Friday, June 26, 2009

Course on Equity Compensation to be Taught at University of California, San Diego

Anthony Mathews, Director of the Beyster Institute at the Rady School of Management, University of California, San Diego, will be teaching the fourth and fifth iterations of an MBA course on employee ownership this summer and fall. The course covers all aspects of equity compensation including employee ownership as we know it. The title of the course - Topics in Corporate Governance: Techniques of Equity Compensation.   This is evidence of the growing awareness of employee ownership...

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Tuesday, June 23, 2009

Abolish ESOPs?

That’s what a University of Illinois visiting professor would like to do.   In a press release sent out by the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign today, visiting professor Sean Anderson states that ESOPs are the biggest threat to retirement savings and should be banned by Congress. To read the full release, follow this link - http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/uoia-otm062209.php.   This is unfathomable. The 2008 Economic Performance Survey conducted...

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Thursday, June 18, 2009

Business News Network - June 15, 2009: Employee Ownership a Model for the Future?

On Tuesday, June 15, 2009, Business News Network (BNN), Canada’s only all business specialty channel, spoke to Levi Sampson, president, Harmac Pulp Mill; Dr. Joseph Blasi, professor, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University; and Michael Keeling, president of The ESOP Association on the benefits of employee ownership.   To view the video, follow this link - http://watch.bnn.ca/headline/june-2009/headline-june-15-2009/#clip183272.

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Tuesday, June 16, 2009

The ESOP Association Adopts New Strategic Plan

At the recent Board of Directors meeting, the Association’s Board adopted a new Strategic Plan. It is being reprinted in full below. If you have any questions about the newly adopted Strategic Plan, please send an email to esop@esopassociation.org.   Strategic Plan   Vision We believe that employee ownership improves American competitiveness…that it increases productivity through greater employee participation in the workplace…that it strengthens our...

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Thursday, June 11, 2009

The ESOP Association is LinkedIn – Are You?

The ESOP Association now has a group on LinkedIn, the social networking website for professionals. Sign in at www.linkedin.com and search groups to find The ESOP Association.  The Association’s company page can be viewed here - http://www.linkedin.com/companies/the-esop-association.   Join the employee ownership conversation.

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Tuesday, June 09, 2009

2009 Edmunson Scholarship Award Winners

The Employee Ownership Foundation is proud to announce the 2009 Edmunson Scholarship Winners.   Wayne Violette and Julie Giantonia of BL Companies, Inc., Meriden, CT Kathy Althoff and Cathy Jordon of CarePro Health Services, Cedar Rapids, IA Lisa St. John of CHART Rehabilitation of Hawaii, Inc., Honolulu, HI Kelly Doyle and Lindsay Grace of Hypertherm, Inc., Hanover, NH Natalya Steinke and Deborah Morelli of MMC Corp, Overland Park, KS Krys Spare and Barb McMullen of the Monroe Publishing...

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Wednesday, June 03, 2009

Employee Ownership Foundation and University of Pennsylvania’s Center for Organizational Dynamics Hold 2nd Annual Symposium on Employee Ownership

On May 2, 2009, advocates of employee ownership gathered in Philadelphia at the University of Pennsylvania for the 2nd Annual Roundtable Conversation among Scholars and ESOP Leaders.   The state of research on employee ownership and questions that need to be answered were hot topics this year with Rutgers professors and the pre-eminent researchers in the field, Dr. Joseph Blasi and Dr. Douglas Kruse, asking participants to let them know what sort of data is needed by the employee ownership...

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