San Diego MIT Enterprise Forum Presents...
Special Presentation Overview:
Re-Envisioning the Company: Shared Capitalism through Employee Ownership
A panel of experts from across the country will provide practical insights on what works and doesn't work.
Special Presentation Overview:
We are witnessing the vulnerabilities of traditional business models in today’s turbulent economy. Now is an opportune time to explore and consider alternative means of starting, conducting, and sustaining business.
Employee ownership is on the rise. San Diego is home to more than 100 companies that have significant employee ownership and broad-based stock options and profit sharing. Across the country, thousands of companies and millions of employees have benefited from the shared risks and rewards of broad-based employee ownership of company stock. From large companies like Microsoft, Google, and SAIC to many small to mid-size firms in a variety of industries like Kleinfelder, Whole Foods, and ATA Engineering (Named as One of the Top 15 Small Workplaces by Wall Street Journal and Winning Workplaces), employee ownership has fostered widespread participation in innovative industries, and has helped promote innovative business practices in management, communication, and operations, to more fully empower employees as owners of successful companies.
To discuss this growing trend at the July 22nd Forum are a number of national experts who will provide practical insights on what works and doesn’t work.
What will you learn?
Executives, senior managers, and board members of start-up, small and mid-size companies in a range of industries with special emphasis on high technology, science and manufacturing organizations.
Professional service providers in the fields of leadership, organizational development as well as financing, accounting, compensation, and human resource management.
Who will be presenting?
The panel will be moderated by David Binns whose 25 years of experience in the employee ownership field includes managing a national trade association for companies with employee ownership plans and consulting to hundreds of companies in the U.S and abroad with a wide range of ownership programs. Mr Binns is currently the COO of MacFadden, a company that he helped become wholly-owned by its employees.
The panel includes faculty and center leaders participating in the FED-sponsored Beyster fellowships program from Carnegie Mellon, Rutgers, and UCSD/Beyster Institute. Collectively, this panel of senior leaders has a range of expertise from researching and working with start-up and early-stage growth companies. Industries they have studied and/or have been actively employed by include: life sciences, energy and clean technology, internet and advanced software, and other science and technology-based industries. They bring perspectives on applying broad-based ownership and profit sharing, and will offer opinions on the significance of broad-based ownership on innovation in the 21st century corporation.
Date:
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Time:
5:00pm - Networking Reception
6:00pm - Presentation and Q&A
7:30pm - Audience Q&A
8:00pm - End
Location (SPECIAL LOCATION FOR THIS FORUM):
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
University of San Diego
5998 Alcalá Park
San Diego, CA 92110
School is not in session. Parking is therefore conveniently located in the IPJ garage adjacent to the Institute.
Please note that online registration will close at 10am on the day of the Forum.
Event website:
http://www.sdmitforum.org/
Employee ownership is on the rise. San Diego is home to more than 100 companies that have significant employee ownership and broad-based stock options and profit sharing. Across the country, thousands of companies and millions of employees have benefited from the shared risks and rewards of broad-based employee ownership of company stock. From large companies like Microsoft, Google, and SAIC to many small to mid-size firms in a variety of industries like Kleinfelder, Whole Foods, and ATA Engineering (Named as One of the Top 15 Small Workplaces by Wall Street Journal and Winning Workplaces), employee ownership has fostered widespread participation in innovative industries, and has helped promote innovative business practices in management, communication, and operations, to more fully empower employees as owners of successful companies.
To discuss this growing trend at the July 22nd Forum are a number of national experts who will provide practical insights on what works and doesn’t work.
What will you learn?
- What forms of employee-ownership have stimulated and sustained performance across industry sectors in good and tough economic times, and what lessons can be relevant to San Diego companies?
- How does ownership work in terms of financing, compensating, and governing at different stages of a company’s life cycle from start-up to more mature companies which are considering converting to employee-owned?
- What are new business models in high technology, life sciences, and clean technology for applying broad-based ownership, and what types of rewards/risk should companies in these industries expect?
Executives, senior managers, and board members of start-up, small and mid-size companies in a range of industries with special emphasis on high technology, science and manufacturing organizations.
Professional service providers in the fields of leadership, organizational development as well as financing, accounting, compensation, and human resource management.
Who will be presenting?
The panel will be moderated by David Binns whose 25 years of experience in the employee ownership field includes managing a national trade association for companies with employee ownership plans and consulting to hundreds of companies in the U.S and abroad with a wide range of ownership programs. Mr Binns is currently the COO of MacFadden, a company that he helped become wholly-owned by its employees.
The panel includes faculty and center leaders participating in the FED-sponsored Beyster fellowships program from Carnegie Mellon, Rutgers, and UCSD/Beyster Institute. Collectively, this panel of senior leaders has a range of expertise from researching and working with start-up and early-stage growth companies. Industries they have studied and/or have been actively employed by include: life sciences, energy and clean technology, internet and advanced software, and other science and technology-based industries. They bring perspectives on applying broad-based ownership and profit sharing, and will offer opinions on the significance of broad-based ownership on innovation in the 21st century corporation.
Date:
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
Time:
5:00pm - Networking Reception
6:00pm - Presentation and Q&A
7:30pm - Audience Q&A
8:00pm - End
Location (SPECIAL LOCATION FOR THIS FORUM):
Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice
University of San Diego
5998 Alcalá Park
San Diego, CA 92110
School is not in session. Parking is therefore conveniently located in the IPJ garage adjacent to the Institute.
Please note that online registration will close at 10am on the day of the Forum.
Event website:
http://www.sdmitforum.org/
Date:
Wednesday, July 22, 20095:00PM-8:00PM
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