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Curriculum Library on Employee Ownership (CLEO)
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Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
The internet home for teaching about employee ownership.
Employee Ownership: A Topic for the Entrepreneurship Curriculum
Author: Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
This Teaching module shows four areas in the entrepreneurship curriculum where teaching about employee ownership can 1) put a needed spotlight on this widespread and useful practice and 2) add conceptual value and rich examples for the course topics being taught...
Starbucks Coffee Company
Authors: Stanley, Alison; Argenti, Paul A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Publication Year: 2002
This case traces the origins of Starbucks and its rapid growth through joint partnerships and diversified products, and its rapid expansion of retail cafes...
Teams, Not Stars, Are the Key to High Performance
Author: Staubus, Martin
Product Type: Essays and Concept Papers
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2010
It's all well and good that a shared ownership stake may promote a team orientation, but does teamwork necessarily translate into superior business results?
United Airlines
Author: Kochan, Thomas A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Rebuilding the Social Contract at Work: Lessons from Leading Cases, Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
Publication Year: 1999
In 1994 United Airlines became the largest employee majority-owned enterprise in the United States, with various groups of employees – most represented by unions – having purchased 55% of its stock in exchange for various concessions. The employees accepted pay cuts and made other concessions, but were also granted representation on the company's board of directors...
Microsoft's Vega Project: Developing People and Products
Author: Bartlett, Christopher A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2000
This case describes Microsoft's human resource philosophies and policies and illustrates how they work in practice to provide the company with a major source of competitive advantage. Discusses employee development, motivation, and retention efforts in one of Microsoft's product groups.
Nucor Corporation (A, B)
Author: Govindarajan, Vijay
Product Type: Cases
Source: Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Publication Year: 2001
This case examines several strategies advocated by various actors in the Nucor Corporation, a major producer of steel.
A Closer Look at Business Education: Employee Ownership
Author: Goldbach, Justin F.
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2008
This Closer Look scans the current landscape of employee ownership teaching in graduate business programs, and shares the perspectives of a leading academic and veteran practitioner about the salient lessons of this model of business.
Corporate New Ventures at Procter & Gamble
Authors: Amabile, Teresa M.; Whitney, Dean
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1997
Procter & Gamble's top executives form a small, autonomous, cross-functional Corporate New Ventures team led by a young former brand manager. The team invents a systematic approach to gathering information and producing creative ideas for radically new product categories.
Just Us! Coffee Roasters
Authors: Sagebien, Julia; Skinner, S.; Weshler, M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
The growing demand and acceptance of fair trade products is good news for the industry and opens many opportunities for Just Us! Coffee Cooperative, but there are also risks.
McKay Nursery Company (A, B)
Authors: Meyer, Kathleen A.; Pochop, Laura; Weiss, Stephanie
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Business Enterprise Trust
Publication Year: 1996
McKay Nursery Co., founded in 1897 in Waterloo, WI, had a longstanding history of commitment to employees. The close-knit organization was a pioneer in the agricultural industry of several employee-friendly policies. But in the early 1980s, as McKay's owners grew older and senior management neared retirement, the next generation of managers feared for the future of the profitable, debt-free company...
King Arthur Flour
Authors: DeLong, Thomas J.; Holian, James; Weiss, Joshua
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
The success of King Arthur Flour could be attributed both to the quality of the product and to the company culture, which treated employee-owners with respect and allowed them to meaningfully contribute to the future direction of the company.
Howard Schultz: Building Starbucks Community (A, B)
Authors: George, Bill; McLean, Andrew N.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Provides information on the leadership development of Howard Schultz, tracing his youth and early business career, and the values he brings to Starbucks.
Whole Foods Market, Inc.
Authors: Wells, John R.; Haglock, Travis
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2005
Can a short-sleeved, sandal-wearing, college dropout create a company manifesting love, joy, and happiness? With Whole Foods, Chainsaw John Mackey did. This case studies an emerging company in an emerging industry by achieving results in unconventional ways.
Jimmy Fu and Moog, Inc.: Understanding Shareholders' Equity
Author: Chapman, Craig J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2010
The case introduces students to the concepts of employee stock options, stock-splits and buybacks, multiple share classes, and the basics of equity investment and diversification.
Employee Ownership and the Entrepreneurial Spirit: The Case of HCSS
Authors: Roche, Olivier; Shipper, Frank
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Perdue School of Business at Salisbury University
Publication Year: 2010
Heavy Construction Systems Specialists, Inc. [HCSS] designs and sells hi-tech software to the heavy/highway construction industry. The case describes a unique corporate culture that has made HCSS a business success in a highly competitive industry.
Staples, Inc.
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
Staples’ management believes strongly that sharing equity with employees is an integral part of the company’s compensation program because it allows them to attract, retain, and reward employees who contribute to longterm success.
Carl Warren & Company
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
Employees of this award-winning ESOP company now speak at conferences about their extensive communications program, but just four years ago remote employees felt disconnected and the company had an ownership culture that could be described as “lip service only.”
Management of Human Assets at Infosys
Author: Raghuram, Sumita
Product Type: Cases
Source: Fordham University
Publication Year: 2003
This case illustrates how a company puts into practice the notion of human resources as strategic assets for a company. The company is Infosys, an India based information technology company that uses offshore infrastructure to provide software solutions to clients worldwide.
Southwest Airlines Corporation
Authors: Govindarajan, Vijay; Lang, Julie B.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Publication Year: 2002
Southwest Airlines, consistently ranked as one of the top performing airlines in the business, began a profit-sharing plan in 1974.
Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to Work for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage
Authors: Heskett, James L.; Wheeler, Joe; Sasser, W. Earl
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: HBS Press
Publication Year: 2008
Employee-owners exhibit such enthusiasm for their organization that they infect countless customers with similar satisfaction, loyalty, and dedication. Customer-owners are in turn so satisfied with their experience that they relate their stories to others, persuade them to try your product, and provide constructive criticism and new product ideas.
The Kerry Group plc.
Author: Kennelly, James J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: North America Case Research Association, Case Research Journal, Spring, 2000
Publication Year: 2000
Kerry Group plc was founded as a farmers' cooperative in 1974. Even after Kerry Group went public in 1986, the original cooperative (and its farmer-shareholders) retained control of the corporation with 51 percent of the shares. Now the farmers are being asked to further lower their shareholding in Kerry Group...
Mid-Missouri Energy
Authors: Reinhardt, Forest; Weber, James; Shelman, Mary
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
Mid-Missouri Energy is a farmer-owned cooperative created to take advantage of the growing interest in ethanol as an automotive fuel.
FilmX
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2006
If anyone should understand the relationship between ownership culture and corporate performance in an ESOP company, it’s Michael Quarrey.
Netflix
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
Netflix is revolutionizing the way companies manage their employees.
KCI Technologies, Inc.
Authors: Street, Vera L.; Weer, Christy; Shipper, Frank
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Perdue School of Business at Salisbury University
Publication Year: 2010
KCI, a multi-disciplined engineering firm, has undergone a number of transformations over the last several decades. It started as a basement dream, was acquired and sold-off by a larger firm, and has emerged as a multi-million dollar employee-owned organization.
Nuts! Southwest Airlines' Crazy Recipe for Business and Personal Success
Authors: Freiberg, Jackie; Freiberg, Kevin
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Broadway Publishing
Publication Year: 1998
Southwest Airlines has created a culture where employees are treated as the company's number one asset.
Rick Surpin (A, B, C)
Authors: Hanson, Kirk O.; Bollier, David; Rowlands, Penelope
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Business Enterprise Trust
Publication Year: 1992
A long-time community development worker creates hundreds of jobs for low-income women and minorities by forming a for-profit home health care cooperative, Cooperative Home Care Associates...
Cisco Systems
Author: Kochan, Thomas A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Rebuilding the Social Contract at Work: Lessons from Leading Cases, MIT Sloan School of Management, Institute for Work and Employment Research
Publication Year: 1999
Cisco Systems, specializing in network systems that link computers and provide Internet communications, was founded in 1990. Employee compensation is closely tied to company and individual performance through stock ownership and profit-sharing, and performance is focused on customer satisfaction...
What Is an Ownership Culture?
Author: Rosen, Corey
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2007
Typical employee ownership companies are privately held, modestly sized (100 to 300 employees), and not household names. They are more productive than their peers, generate greater employee and shareholder wealth, and are more likely to survive year after year. They have the ownership edge.
Companies We Keep: Employee Ownership and the Business of Community and Place
Author: Abrams, John
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Chelsea Green Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
Thoroughly revised with an expanded focus on employee ownership and workplace democracy, Companies We Keep celebrates the idea that when employees share in the rewards as well as the responsibility for the decisions they make, better decisions result.
Keller Williams Realty
Authors: Baron, James N.; Tayan, Brian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
Describes the economic and cultural models that have led to the success of Keller Williams Realty. Evaluates the interaction of a company's corporate strategy, culture, and organizational practices as a source of competitive advantage.
Lucent Technologies
Author: Kochan, Thomas A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Rebuilding the Social Contract at Work: Lessons from Leading Cases, Institute for Work and Employment Research, Sloan School of Management, MIT
Publication Year: 1999
Lucent was created in 1994 as part of AT&T's tri-vestiture. This case focuses on the dilemma faced by a new company that inherited a labor-management consultation structure developed by AT&T, a structure that has broken down in many respects, and that does not seem adequate to the challenges of the new company in a new and highly competitive market...
Employee Ownership: Making It Work
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
Employee ownership is a persuasive concept for many, owners and employees alike. But how to decide if an ESOP or other equity model is the right alternative, how to get started, and how to keep the model working once it is in place? This Reading Collection includes a selection of material related to the nuts and bolts of ESOP and other equity models.
Padilla Speer Beardsley
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
Padilla Speer Beardsley created an ESOP in 1992 and is currently a 100% ESOP-owned S corporation.
W.L. Gore & Associates, Inc.
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 1998
According to its own description, W.L. Gore & Associates is a company with “no titles, no bosses, and no special entitlements.”
Stone Finch, Inc.: Young Division, Old Division
Authors: Hamermesh, Richard G.; Collins, Elizabeth
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Publishing Brief Cases
Publication Year: 2010
CEO Jim Billings wants to attract energetic, entrepreneurial talent to Stone Finch, Inc.
Spiegel-Verlag Rudolf Augstein GmbH & Co. KG
Authors: Villalonga, Belen; Beyersdorfer, Daniela; Dessain, Vincent
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
Spiegel's unique ownership structure and corporate governance, and its impact on a concrete business decision, highlights the benefits and costs of employee ownership in a family firm, and the tools available for aligning the interests of family and employee shareholders.
The Employee Ownership Culture
Author: Johnson, Jennifer
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
How to establish a positive employee culture and use it to promote the good of the company are key questions for business leaders. Supporters of employee-owned businesses argue that instilling an ownership culture creates the type of human resource environment necessary for corporate success. This Reading Collection includes material related to the organizational cultures of companies using employee and stock ownership, profit sharing, and other incentive-based compensation models.
Shared Capitalism at Work: Employee Ownership, Profit and Gain Sharing, and Broad-based Stock Options
Authors: Kruse, Douglas; Blasi, Joseph; Freeman, Richard B.
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Forthcoming from University of Chicago Press
Publication Year: 2008
This collection of papers provides background on a number of employee ownership issues.
Sally Jameson: Valuing Stock Options in a Compensation Package
Authors: Tufano, Peter; Lewittes, Michael
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2003
Details a thinly disguised situation faced by a recent Harvard MBA graduate who was forced by a prospective employer to place a dollar value on a grant of stock options.
North Highland: A Remarkable Consulting Firm Built on a Culture of Ownership
Author: Meyertholen, Emily
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Beyster Institute
Publication Year: 2008
Own your life, own your career, own your company. That's the philosophy that built this employee-owned company into a highly respected and successful consulting firm.
Lightworks Optics
Authors: Lawrence, Anne T.; Mathews, Anthony
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2008
The firm was meeting to grapple with a thorny issue—whether or not to expand their production capability and, if so, where. Early in its history, LightWorks had set up an employee stock ownership plan, or ESOP, under which employees gradually built up equity in the closely-held firm.
Barclay Water Management
Author: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: The National Center for Employee Ownership
Publication Year: 2008
In 2007, five of the fifteen winners of the Top Small Workplaces Award given out by the Wall Street Journal and Winning Workplaces were employee-owned, and a number of the others planned to move in that direction.
W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc. in 1998
Authors: Manz, Charles C.; Shipper, Frank
Product Type: Cases
Source: Frank Shipper, Charles C. Manz
Publication Year: 1998
On July 26, 1976, bursting with resolve, Jack Dougherty, a newly minted MBA, from the College of William and Mary, reported for his first day at W. L. Gore & Associates.
Reflexite Corporation
Author: Rosenthal, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Case Research Journal
Publication Year: 2009
In March, 2007, Michael Foley, Chief Executive Officer of Reflexite Corporation, had to decide whether to proceed with a change in the company’s employee stock ownership plan. Foley, still in his first year as CEO, pondered the situation: the employees had spoken, but when the man who had built the company strongly objected, shouldn’t one listen?
Audio: The Working Week 78
Authors: Beyster, Mary Ann; Tremel, Wayne
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: Management-Issues.com
Publication Year: 2008
Employee ownership can be a tough proposition.
Cataphora: A Conscious Decision to Bootstrap
Authors: Lee, Moses; Goldstein, Amy
Product Type: Cases
Source: Center for Entrepreneurship at the University of Michigan
Publication Year: 2011
At the beginning of 2007, Cataphora, an employee]owned, bootstrapped software company was at a crossroads. The Vice President of Sales, Jonathan Nystrom, had been struck by a family emergency that would force him to take a temporary leave of absence from the company. This situation would have a significant negative impact on any start]up with a small sales force; for an entirely bootstrapped company, it was potentially disastrous.
Employee Ownership: An Unstable Form or a Stabilizing Force?
Authors: Blair, Margaret; Kruse, Douglas; Blasi, Joseph
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Chapter in Margaret M. Blair and Thomas Kochan (eds.). 2000. The New Relationship: Human Capital in the American Corporation. Brookings Institution Press: Washington, DC.
Publication Year: 2000
In this paper, we take on a seemingly very simple set of empirical questions that we hope will shed light on whether employee ownership of firms "works"...
eBay, Inc.: Stock Option Plans (A, B, C)
Author: Bradshaw, Mark T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
The footnote disclosure for eBay, Inc. in 2000 indicates that if the company had accounted for employee stock options under the fair value method, its reported profit of $48 million would have been a loss of $91 million.
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