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In an editorial in the New York Daily News, Jove Oliver, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a former director of the Clinton Global Initiative, writes that Democra

Today is the first day of Employee Ownership Month 2022! Congratulations to all employee-owners and to all the people who make employee ownership happen.

The staff and board of the NCEO wish all readers of this update the very best for the upcoming year. May it be joyful and prosperous, and may it bring many opportunities for us to work with you to create and strengthen employee ownership.

In an interview with Dan Kenary, the CEO of Harpoon Brewery, Forbes contributor Roberta Matuson asked why Kenary had adopted an ESOP. "I did this because I wanted our employees to fully participate in the value that we are creating," he said.

An August 8 article, Why the U.S.

The June issue of the Harvard Business Review (HBR) contains an article titled "Every Employee an Owner. Really" by Corey Rosen of the NCEO, business writer John Case, and Martin Staubus of the Beyster Institute.

This new book by NCEO director Corey Rosen, business writer John Case, and the Beyster Institute's Martin Staubus makes the case for the "equity model" of business: sharing ownership widely, getting employees involved in work-level decisions, and sharing financial measurements and goals with empl

On April 2, Harvard Social Impact Review published “Rethinking Ownership: Putting Purpose at the Center,” which explores trust ownership, including employee ownership trusts and perpetual purpose trusts (EOTs and PPTs respectively).

Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Representative Clay Shaw (R-FL) have introduced legislation that would make broad reforms in S corporation law. The bills include a provision that would allow distributions on allocated shares in an S corporation ESOP to be used to repay a loan.

Despite, or perhaps because of, the extensive regulations surrounding equity compensation, wherever industry professionals gather, it only takes lifting your ear to hear exciting and scary stories of ill-planned transactions, poorly designed awards, unexpected tax consequences, frustrating accoun