Foundation For Enterprise Development

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World's First Beyster Professorship of Employee Ownership

The world’s first endowed professorship of EO is established at Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations. Selection of the first J. Robert Beyster Professorship will begin in the fall of 2010. More Information

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  • Beyster Fellowship Program

    The Beyster Fellowship campaign was launched in 2008 to establish multi-year academic grants focused on research and the integration of teaching materials about the combined principles of technical entrepreneurship, employee ownership, and participative management. More Information

    Universities with FED researchers under the Beyster Fellowship:
    • Carnegie Mellon
    • MIT
    • Beyster Institute
    • Rutgers
    • SDSU
    • Stanford
    • USD
  • Dissertation Awards

    In support of young scholars, the Aspen Institute, FED, and Employee Ownership Foundation created a new dissertation proposal award in 2009 titled “Shared Capitalism through Employee Ownership Award.” The winner was announced in September, 2009. Applications for the 2010 dissertation proposal award is now open. More Information

  • Beyster Fellowship Symposium 2010

    The FED hosts the largest academic symposium of scholars involved in the interdisciplinary study of employee stock ownership. The inaugural symposium was held in July, 2009 and brought together over 40 academic leaders and new scholars to share their research findings and to participate in an MIT Enterprise Forum panel discussion. Review the proceedings for this symposium titled Shared Capitalism and Employee Ownership: The Scholarly Agenda. The 2010 symposium will be held 6/27/10 through 6/30/10. More Information

  • National Databases

    General Social Survey (GSS)

    The FED helped establish the shared capitalism component in the GSS 2010 Survey. In addition, Beyster Fellows defined questions on shared capitalism to expand data available for government and researchers on key social and economic attitudes and behavior. More Information. More Information

    Broad-Based Equity Compensation

    The FED is supporting the NCEO in updating a consolidated data set on equity compensation, including broad-based stock options, of more than 500 public companies. More Information

Academic Research

The FED sponsors inter-disciplinary research focused on how broad-based ownership models motivate employees, improves firm performance, advances innovation, and supports economic development.

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