Employee Ownership Blog

Writing in a Forbes blog post, Bill Fotsch and John Case contrast the behavior of employee-owners and the decision by United Airlines to forcibly remove a passenger from an o

In a March 2017 paper, Employee Stock Ownership Plans as an Exit Strategy for Private Business Owners, Alex Brill of examined a number of paths by which current owners may leave or s

The NCEO's ESOP Executive Compensation Survey collects and presents some of the only data on executive compensation specific to ESOP companies. We collected data for the latest installment of the survey from October 2016 to January 2017.

Private equity investors typically share equity ownership with a select group of very senior managers. The conventional (if empirically wrong) wisdom is that the top echelon of management can "move the needle" on the value of a company, and only the top people understand and value ownership.

At its annual meeting in Harrisburg, PA, on February 28, the executive director of the Pennsylvania Center for Employee Ownership (PaCEO) released its survey of professionals in the employee ownership field. The survey found:

Polish Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development and Finance Mateusz Jakub Morawiecki is a strong supporter of employee ownership and recently wrote a laudatory introduction to a new Polish translation of Equity: Why Employee Ownership Is Good for Business, published originally by

Today marks the first day in the terms of seven new directors at the NCEO:

The summary chart accompanying the March-April 2017 Employee Ownership Report article on State Capital Gains Taxation in §1042 Transactions indicated that New Jersey does not follow the federal definition of taxable income.

On March 9, the Senate Banking Committee unanimously approved the Encouraging Employee Ownership Act (S.

On March 7, the European Federation of Employee Share Ownership (EFES) reported on that among 2,335 European companies listed on stock exchanges, the average stake held by employee share plans is 3.2% That is up from 2.5% in 2006.

Thirty-six people from 28 companies attended the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania Center for Employee Ownership (PaCEO) on February 27 and 28 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Tomorrow, March 16, the Business Affairs and Labor Committee of the Colorado House of Representatives will consider HB 17-1214, designed to encourage employee ownership of existing small businesses.