
Entrepreneurial Ownership course for engineering students
The College of Engineering, Center for Entrepreneurship is developing an Entrepreneurial Ownership course. Case studies on actual entrepreneurial situations will be written to enhance entrepreneurial skills and capabilities, improve understanding of the way alternative ownership decisions affect organizational dynamics, and take an in depth look at specific mechanisms that entrepreneurs can use to create positive ownership outcomes. The course will be launched in winter 2011 and integrated into the new masters program.
Management Flight Simulator Integrating Decisions on Compensation, Financing, and Product Development for Startup Firms
MIT Systems Dynamics Center is designing and testing a new "management flight simulator" that incorporates decisions on compensation, financing, and product development for a startup firm in the clean/green technology sector. A beta version is being piloted. Our Beyster Fellow continues to refine this tool during his second year of fellowship at Rutgers!

Teaching "A New Tool for Entrepreneurship Educators: Using Employee Ownership For Inspiration and Motivation in Entrepreneurship Ventures"
FED is supporting the Experiential Classroom, now at Oklahoma State University, as a test bed for the Beyster Institute to introduce employee ownership curriculum to leading entrepreneurship professors in the nation. This program provides an opportunity for piloting new employee ownership educational materials for entrepreneurship classes and curriculum.
New case studies highlight technology companies with broad-based ownership
Under a grant provided by the FED, Prof. Frank Shipper, Ph.D., and colleagues shall write 3 case studies that describe relatively small, but high-tech firms and their most critical resource, their employees. Some of the firms started as traditional firms, but all are now at least partially employee-owned. All are weathering the financial crisis better than most companies. Collectively, these cases provide common and distinctive ideas on how to develop a successful employee-owned culture.
Development on cases 1 and 2 are now completed. See right column.
Case 3, scheduled for April 2011, shall feature TEOCO. More on this at a later date.
Teaching Program Development on Employee Ownership
The Beyster Institute is developing educational materials and teaching employee ownership designed to support five constituents—students, faculty, business leaders of employee-owned (EO) companies, employees of EO companies, and professional services.





