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"Robber baron" Leland Stanford (who started Southern Pacific Railroad, served as U.S. Senator, and founded Stanford University) is not much remembered these days as a strong advocate of employee ownership, but, in fact, as he got older, it was central to his thinking.

A special report in the Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina, paints a detailed, loving, and profoundly sad story about the rise and demise of iconic employee-owned grocery store chain, Piggly Wiggly

Want to see reinvention at work? Watch this video from the Motz Corporation (parent company of two external brands: The Motz Group and USGreentech):  

At the recent NCEO/Beyster Institute Annual Conference, Dr. Laura Nash of Harvard Business School talked about her recent book, Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life (John Wiley & Sons, 2005).

The proposed rules for implementing the Main Street Employee Ownership Act reduce the number of new ESOPs the Act is expected to produce, as we described in

The German Share Institute (Deutsches Aktieninstitut) issued a call for policy makers to increase the amount of employee ownership

Senators Carl Levin (D-MI) and John McCain (R-AZ) are introducing legislation that would prevent companies that do not record the present value cost of stock options as a charge to earnings from taking a tax deduction for the spread on the exercise of non-qualified options or disqualifying exerci

The progressive think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) released the Report on the Commission of Inclusive Capitalism, the

Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-CT), along with Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA) has introduced the "Rank and File Stock Options Act" (S. 2877). The bill has three main provisions:

Senator Joseph Lieberman (D-Ct) has introduced SB 1142 to eliminate the spread on the exercise of incentive stock options from the Alternative Minimum Tax. The bill is parallel to one introduced by Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) in the House, HR 1487.