Curriculum Development in Progress

Management Flight Simulator Integrating Decisions on Compensation, Financing, and Product Development for Startup Firms

MIT Systems Dynamics Center is designing and testing a new "management flight simulator" that incorporates decisions on compensation, financing, and product development for a startup firm in the clean/green technology sector. A beta version is being piloted. Our Beyster Fellow continues to refine this tool during his second year of fellowship at Rutgers!

Teaching "A New Tool for Entrepreneurship Educators: Using Employee Ownership For Inspiration and Motivation in Entrepreneurship Ventures"

FED is supporting the Experiential Classroom, now at Oklahoma State University, as a test bed for the Beyster Institute to introduce employee ownership curriculum to leading entrepreneurship professors in the nation. This program provides an opportunity for piloting new employee ownership educational materials for entrepreneurship classes and curriculum.

Teaching Program Development on Employee Ownership

The Beyster Institute is developing educational materials and teaching employee ownership designed to support five constituents—students, faculty, business leaders of employee-owned (EO) companies, employees of EO companies, and professional services.

FED Sponsored Development Completed

A Closer Look at Business Education: Employee Ownership More Information
Employee Ownership: A Topic for the Entrepreneurship Curriculum More Information

Academic case studies of employee-owned companies

The Beyster Institute managed the completion and publication of academic case studies led by Anne T. Lawrence, Professor of Business, San Jose State University, California, and David W. Rosenthal, Professor of Marketing, Miami University, Ohio. By producing well-written case studies that meet the academic standards expected of leading business schools, the results of this effort can significantly impact the awareness of employee ownership in business school curricula. More Information

Employee Ownership Research Network (EORN) Sponsorship to the European Academy of Management (EURAM) Conference

The EORN is a network of young academics from Europe and North America with interests in employee ownership. In 2007, they assembled for the annual conference of the European Academy of Management, presented nine papers, and met fellow academics with common interests. To learn more, contact Ed Carberry, a Visiting Beyster Faculty Fellow at Rutgers University.

Case Studies on Employee Ownership: A Review (Download PDF)

Dr. Joseph Blasi of Rutgers University conducted a systematic review of case studies incorporating employee ownership—including profit/gain sharing, broad-based stock programs, and employee stock option plans (ESOP)—using the case study libraries of major U.S. schools that produce cases. The article was published by the National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) in the Journal of Employee Ownership Law and Finance. Click to subscribe to this journal.