The award-winning film captures the journeys of three employee owned businesses.
The Institute
The largest university-based research center dedicated to advancing the understanding of all forms of employee share ownership, the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership & Profit Sharing at Rutgers University serves as a leading source of research, education, and applied insights to advance employee ownership and strengthen economic opportunity. The Applied Research Lab including this Research-to-Practice Hub website builds on years of research, collaboration, and field-building.
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Educational Tools
From the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership & Profit Sharing
The worlds largest university-based center dedicated to advancing the understanding of all forms of employee ownership and related tools that give working people a capital or profit share.
Free online library of teaching and research materials about employee ownership–including links to more than 100 case studies. Designed for teaching faculty and researchers.
The first academic research initiative dedicated to employee equity compensation and employee equity ownership in corporations.
A series of research briefs published on the Rutgers Institute website.
Link to the center focused on educating about employee ownership models locally, across the region.
The Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing supports the work of scholars through a national and global competitive research fellowship program. It recognizes field leaders with executive fellowships. Its global network of fellows convenes at annual research conferences.
Film & Video Learning Resources
The Coursera course introduces employee ownership through short video lessons by 15 experts.
A video course on ESOPs.
A video course on worker cooperatives.
Institute Team
Joseph Blasi • William Castellano • Adriane Clomax • Ludine Deaux • Bethany Dennis • William Foley • Glenda Gracia Rivera • Melissa Hoover • Oyindamola Ijewere • Douglas Kruse • Christopher Mackin • Matthew Mazewski • Christopher Michael • Jack Moriarty • Erik Olsen • Adria Scharf • James Terez … and our entire network of Research Fellows, Executive Fellows, Mentors, friends, collaborators and supporters.
William Castellano — Executive Director
Joseph Blasi — Director Emeritus
Douglas Kruse — J. Robert Beyster Professor
Adria Scharf — Senior Associate Director
Christopher Michael — Senior Director
Bethany Dennis — Senior Program Coordinator
Melissa Hoover — Director of University Consortium for Employee Ownership
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