Beyster Fellowship Universities

• Arizona State University, Carey School of Business
  
  

  Topic:

  Analysis of participation in employee stock purchase plans

  Ilona Babenko

  Assistant Professor, Finance (Beyster Fellow at Rutgers)

  Topic:

  How firms that grant options broadly to non-executive employees contribute to firm value

  Laura Lindsey

  Assistant Professor, Economics (Beyster Fellow at Rutgers)

• Auburn University
  
  

  Topic:

  What determines the allocation of employee ownership among employees in 1,365 investment management firms ranging in size.

  William Gerken

  Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Business School Department of Finance

• Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business
  
  

  Topic:

  Capitalization techniques, business models, and employee incentives within an employee-owned structure in the energy and biotech industries

  	Art Boni	John R. Thorne Chair of Entrepreneurship, Engineering Science
  	Gergana Tordova	Ph.D. candidate, Organizational Behavior
  	Laurie Weingart	Professor, Organizational Behavior

• California State University, East Bay
  
  

  Topic:

  Incentive compensation, worker participation, and the delegation of worker authority

  Jed DeVaro

  Professor, Economics (Beyster Fellow at Rutgers)

• Case Western Reserve University, Fowler Center for Sustainable Value
  
  

  Topic

  Implications of the Mondragon Cooperative Group for economic development in the US

  Bonnie Richley

  Adjunct Professor, Organizational Behavior (Beyster Research Fellow at Rutgers)

• Georgetown University
  
  

  Topic

  Review of state and federal policies on broad-based employee ownership and profit sharing

  David Madland

  Director of the American Worker Project, Center for American Progress, Government (Beyster Fellow at Rutgers) Published Report: Growing the Wealth: How Government Encourages Broad-Based Inclusive Capitalism

  Topic

  Role of broad-based property rights in Catholic social teaching

  Robert Van der Waag

  Lecturer, Department of Theology, Theology (Beyster Research Fellow at Rutgers)

• Harvard University, Harvard Law School, Labor and Worklife Program
  
  

  Topic

  Economics of profit sharing, employee stock ownership and broad-based stock options in the US

  Richard Freeman

  Herbert Ascherman Professor of Economics, Economics (Beyster Faculty Fellow at Rutgers). Faculty mentor to Rutgers Beyster Fellows.

  Topic

  Topic: How retirement accounts are designed in order to substantially attenuate the rise to employees of sharing in the employer’s profits through employee ownership

  Danny Yagan

  Ph.D. candidate, Harvard University Department of Economics.

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
  
  

  Topic

  Distributed Leadership Research Initiative (DLRI) explores decentralized and collective leadership patterns and their relationship with employee ownership. Explore the relationship between ownership structures of the competing teams, patterns of innovation and success in the X PRIZE

  	Deborah Ancona	Seley Distinguished Professor of Management, Sloan School of Management, Psychology
  	Elaine Backman	Research Scientist, MIT Leadership Center, Sociology

  Topic

  How shared capitalism impacts academic scientists’ commercialization of their research results in start‐ups

  Michael Bikard

  Ph.D. candidate, Sloan School of Management, Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Strategy Program.

  Topic

  Impacts of alternative ownership practices used by clean technology companies

  Joe Hsueh

  Ph.D. candidate, Sloan School of Management, System Dynamics (Beyster Fellowship at Rutgers)

  Topic

  Impacts of alternative ownership practices used by clean technology companies

  Hiram Samel

  Ph.D. candidate, Sloan School of Management, Work and Employment

  Topic

  Democratic wealth generation in emerging green sectors such as worker cooperatives and other formats that provide access to tangible gains for working-poor families and other marginalized populations

  Lily Song

  PhD candidate, Urban Studies & Planning (Beyster Fellow at Rutgers)

• Norfolk State University, School of Business
  
  

  Topic

  Business Ethics issues of private versus public companies with broad-based employee ownership in the US

  Sally Sledge

  Associate Professor, Management (Beyster Fellow at Rutgers)

• Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management
  
  

  Topic

  Incentive effect of stock options granted to the rank and file

  Yael Hochberg

  Assistant Professor, Finance (Beyster Fellow at Rutgers)

• Princeton University
  
  

  Topic

  Diffusion of stock ownership comparing employee stock ownership and non-employee stock ownership during the US boom and bust

  Pierre Kremp

  Ph.D. candidate, Sociology (Beyster Fellow at Rutgers)

• Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University
  
  

  Topic

  Broad-based stock options in multi-national corporations

  Ed Carberry

  Assistant Professor, Sociology (Beyster Fellow at Rutgers)

• Rutgers University, School of Management and Labor Relations (SMLR)
  
  

  Topic

  American economic history of broad profit sharing, employee ownership and stock options

  Joseph Blasi

  Professor, Sociology (Beyster Faculty Fellow). Faculty mentor to Rutgers Beyster Fellows.

  Topic

  Performance of profit sharing, employee ownership, and broad-based stock options in the US

  Douglas Kruse

  Professor, Economics (Beyster Faculty Fellow). Faculty mentor to Rutgers Beyster Fellows.

• San Diego State University, Entrepreneurial Management Center
  
  

  Topic

  Research and teaching material development on impact of aligning and bundling equity practices, work practices, corporate values and culture within San Diego life sciences and entrepreneurial communities

  	Gangaram Singh	Professor, Management
  	Lynn Shore	Professor, Industrial & Organizational Psychology

• Salisbury University, Franklin O. Perdue School of Business
  
  

  Topic

  Case studies of US firms that are employee-owned and have high employee involvement in management

  Frank Shipper

  Professor, Management

• Stanford University, School of Engineering
  
  

  Topic Case

  Document how company values based on employee ownership fit into newly formed high-tech companies within the Silicon Valley Using Ownership Incentives in China (http://www.caseplace.org/d.asp?d=6431)

  Tamara Carleton

  Ph.D. candidate, Engineering

• UCSD, Rady School of Management, Beyster Institute
  
  

  Topic

  Development of employee ownership teaching programs and research initiative; research project on possible effects of employee ownership plans on employee attitudes

  	Anthony Mathews	Director, Beyster Institute, Developmental Psychology
  	Martin Staubus	Senior Consultant, Beyster Institute, Law

• University of Chicago, Booth School of Business
  
  

  Topic

  A theoretical model of shared ownership in different organization forms

  Karen Bernhardt-Walther

  Ph.D. candidate, Economics (Beyster Fellow at Rutgers)

• University of Massachusetts at Amherst
  
  

  Topic

  Quality of care, participatory decision-making, and worker ownership in the home health aide industry

  Daphne Berry

  PhD candidate, Management and Organization Studies (Beyster Fellow at Rutgers)

  Topic

  Empirical Analysis of Risk Preferences, Compensation Risk, and Employee Outcomes

  Fidan Ana Kurtulus

  Assistant Professor, Economics (Beyster Fellow at Rutgers)

• University of Michigan, Center for Entrepreneurship
  
  

  Topic

  Engineering curriculum with a teaching module to educate engineering students in the value of employee ownership and entrepreneurship

  	William Hall	Adjunct Professor, Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Engineering, Business Administration
  	Aileen Huang-Saad	Assistant Director Academic Programs, Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Engineering, Biomedical Engineering
  	Moses Lee	Lecturer and Program Manager, Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Engineering, Business Administration
  	Doug Neal	Managing Director, Center for Entrepreneurship in the College of Engineering,Computer Science

• University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler School of Business
  
  

  Topic

  Employee Ownership, Innovation and broad-based stock options in US business

  Paige Ouimet

  Assistant Professor, Finance (Beyster Fellow at Rutgers)

• University of San Diego, School of Business Administrations
  
  

  Topic

  Changes in composition and scope of ownership over a firm's evolution and the factors influencing those changes, and how firms can benefit from SEC Rule 144a in order to raise capital

  	Shreesh Despande	Professor, Finance
  	Helder Sebastiao	Asst. Professor, Management
  	Frank Partnoy	Professor, Law

• University of Texas
  
  

  Topic

  Role of broad-based worker ownership in the political economy of a democracy

  Mark Kaswan

  Assistant Professor, Department of Government, Political Science (Beyster Fellow at Rutgers)

• York University
  
  

  Topic

  What can we learn about firm performance, workers earnings, and firm stability from the largest longitudinal dataset on employee ownership in North America

  Tony Fang

  Associate professor, Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management