Shared Capitalism through Employee Ownership
International Dissertation Award

In partnership with the FED and the Employee Ownership Foundation (EOF), the Shared Capitalism through Employee Ownership Award was a newly created category in 2009 as part of the Aspen Institute Center for Business Education (Aspen CBE) annual Dissertation Proposal Award program. Read more about the award.

The purpose of this award is to identify innovative research in business or business-related disciplines that is concerned with the impact or effectiveness of shared capitalism and/or broad-based ownership strategies in combination with participative workplace practices. The 2010 winners will receive honorariums and recognition at an awards ceremony to be held in New York City on October 26-27, 2010.

The following five-member academic/non-profit committee panel evaluated the applications:

• Joseph Blasi, Rutgers University
• Richard Freeman, Harvard University
• Takao Kato, Colgate University
• Corey Rosen, executive director, The National Center for Employee Ownership
• Maureen Scully, University of Massachusetts, Boston

2009 Winner and Finalists

Daphne Berry, Winner

Doctoral candidate in management
University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Daphne Berry's curriculum vita
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Francesco Bova, Finalist

Assistant professor of accounting
Joseph L. Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto
Formerly a doctoral student at Yale University

Mark Stanford, Finalist

Doctoral candidate at the University of Oxford, Linacre College