Firms united in desire to spread transformative enterprise design model.
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Ownership Design: Why does it matter?
At Fifty by Fifty we’ve been exploring ownership design. Our research has led us to conclude that enterprise design is an important lever of change, the key to building an economy that is both sustainable and equitable.
Continue ReadingMission-led Employee-owned Firms: The best of the best
Fifty by Fifty releases report identifying new ownership design.
Continue ReadingMission-led employee-owned firms: The best of the best
Mission-led employee-owned firms embody a powerful model of enterprise design for a new era of environmental sustainability and social equity.
Continue ReadingEmployee Ownership Drives Success at Newport Restaurant Group
Employee ownership deepens engagement, builds community.
Continue ReadingTDIndustries: Servant Leaders and Employee Ownership
An Organizational Culture that Drives Success by John Case This story was originally published at Employee-Owned America, February 1, 2019, and is reposted here with permission. What’s interesting about TDIndustries, a big mechanical construction and facilities-services firm, isn’t just its business results, though heaven knows those results are impressive enough. Founded 73 years ago in Dallas, TD […]
Continue ReadingTransitioning Leadership at an Employee-Owned Firm
Kimberly Jones Is Preserving a Legacy and Building a Future for Butler/Till by Sarah Stranahan Fifty by Fifty spoke with Kimberly Jones to learn what it is like to step into leadership at an employee-owned B corporation. Jones became the president of Butler/Till, an advertising and media firm, in 2015, one year after the company’s […]
Continue ReadingThe British are Coming — ESOPs and Perpetual Trusts
John Lewis Partnership’s employee ownership structure is simple. . . . John Lewis employees are not bought out at retirement. Rather, they enjoy profit-sharing during the years that they work at the company.
Continue ReadingEmployee Ownership: Updates from the Field
Reports, meetings, webinars — employee ownership is a topic of growing interest by Karen Kahn National Center for Employee Ownership (NCEO) Issues Retirement Security Report: “S Corporation ESOPs and Retirement Security,” a new NCEO research report, compares the retirement savings of employees in ESOP companies to average retirement savings among all U.S. workers. The survey of members of the Employee-Owned S […]
Continue ReadingEvergreen Cooperatives Launch Fund for Employee Ownership
New Fund to preserve jobs by acquiring companies and converting them to employee ownership “ Our theory is that the reason employee ownership has been slow to grow is a lack of agency — no one is incentivized to promote employee ownership conversions in a way that can compete with the strength of the traditional mergers and […]
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