A recent survey by the New Zealand Venture Investment Fund and the Angel Association of startup firms backed by angel investors found that the vast majority (88%) use employee stock plans, most of which were stock option plans
The report, Ours to Share: How Worker-Ownership Can Change the American Economy, explores and evaluates various forms of employee ownership with a focus on worker cooperativ
On April 26, the yogurt maker Chobani announced that members of its 2,000-person workforce would be receiving an ownership stake worth around 10% of the company.
Participants in Kodak's 401(k) and ESOP filed a class action lawsuit in 2012 after the Kodak stock in their accounts became worthless due to Kodak's bankruptcy, and on April 27 a federal district court judge approved a $9.7 million settlement.
In a CNN essay that starts with the recent announcement about Hamilton, Justin Talbot-Zorn and Jove Oliver talk about the politics of employee ownership, noting bipartisan efforts to support it, from
The Beyster Institute of the University of California San Diego is hosting the Corporate Director's Exchange, which is part of the institute's program on corporate governance for ESOP comp
On March 28, the federal district court for the northern district of Mississippi applied the Supreme Court's ruling in Fifth Third Bancorp v. Dudenhoeffer to an ESOP in a closely held company. In the case, Hill v.