The Foundation for Enterprise Development

Over the past two decades, there are many people and organizations who have worked with the FED. Many can offer entrepreneurs direct support via a range of services including consulting, training, and education in employee ownership and entrepreneurship. On this page, we intend to help direct entrepreneurs to other organizations and individuals for additional advice and resources.

Employee Ownership and Entrepreneurship Services

The Beyster Institute at the Rady School, UC San Diego, focuses on training, consulting and education of entrepreneurs and executives worldwide on employee ownership.

CONNECT is a globally recognized public benefits organization fostering entrepreneurship in the San Diego region by catalyzing, accelerating, and supporting the growth of the most promising technology and life sciences businesses.

Inspiring Entrepreneurial Spirit for 20 Years

For two decades Ernst & Young (E&Y) and the Entrepreneur Of The Year awards have honored entrepreneurial men and women and the companies they build and grow. Dr. Beyster has been a judge for E&Y’s Entrepreneur of the Year awards (and an active sponsor) for more than a decade. In recognition of his contributions to entrepreneurship, on June 17, 2003, Ernst & Young awarded Dr. Beyster their Lifetime Achievement Award.

Joseph Blasi

Joseph R. Blasi is a Professor at the School of Management and Labor Relations at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. His principal research focus is employee ownership, broad-based stock options, and profit sharing in U.S. corporations and related policy alternatives at the level of the Federal Government. The FED supported his recent research on shared rewards in the 100 high technology knowledge companies that have developed the Internet. This resulted in a book entitled In the Company of Owners which Professor Blasi co-authored with Rutgers colleague Douglas Kruse and Business Week writer Aaron Bernstein (Basic Books, 2003). The FED also supported a national random survey of working Americans on these subjects in 2002 and 2006. This is part of the General Social Survey which is administered by the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center with major support from the National Science Foundation.

The FED supported Dr. Blasi's earliest main work on employee ownership in public companies. The resultant book, The New Owners: The Mass Emergence of Employee Ownership in Public Companies was co-authored with Rutgers colleague Douglas Kruse. (HarperCollins, 1991). Professor Blasi has been a recipient of the Lady Davis Fellowship at Hebrew University and the Fulbright Fellowship. He has served as a member of the Institute of Advanced Study's School of Social Science. He is currently co-principal investigator with Douglas Kruse and Richard Freeman of a six year study of shared rewards and corporate behavior sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation and the Russell Sage Foundation. Dr. Blasi is also currently the FED's advisor for fellowships and grants.

Email: jrbru@hotmail.com