Events

July 22, 2009 - Special Presentation
In cooperation with The Foundation for Enterprise Development

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?

• 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?
  

Who should attend?


• 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.
  DIRECTIONS AND PARKING INSTRUCTIONS.

REGISTER HERE.
Please note that online registration will close at 10am on the day of the Forum.

Lead Sponsor

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See below for information on speakers and the presentation.

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Speakers:

Moderator:

David Binns, Trustee for 25 Years, The Foundation for Enterprise Development

• Chief Operating Officer, MacFadden, a professional services corporation providing disaster response management services, integrated information technology services, program management services and management consulting services to government agencies, corporations and other organizations.

  David Binns is the Secretary of the FED Board and the Chief Operating Officer of MacFadden, a professional services corporation providing disaster response management services, integrated information technology services, program management services and management consulting services to government agencies, corporations and other organizations. Prior to joining MacFadden, he was an Associate Director for the Beyster Institute where he managed the development of employee ownership consulting and outreach programs. David has been actively involved in efforts to promote the use of employee ownership as a means to facilitate privatization, defense conversion and economic development in several foreign countries.

Panel:

Dr. Arthur Boni, Johns R. Thorne, Chair of Entrepreneurship, Carnegie Mellon's Tepper School of Business

• Director, Donald H. Jones Center for Entrepreneurship
• Executive Director, McGinnis Venture Competition
• Ph.D. in engineering science/engineering physics from UC, San Diego

Dr. Joseph Blasi, Rutgers State University, School of Management and Labor Relations

• Professor of human resource management and labor studies and employment relations
• Author of several hundred research papers, books and other publications on employee ownership and shared capitalism
• Ed.D. in sociology of organizations from Harvard University

Anthony Mathews, Executive Director, Beyster Institute, Rady School of Management/UC San Diego

• Several decades of experience with leading consulting companies in designing and managing employee ownership stock plans
• B.A. from Loyola University of Los Angeles; M.A. from UCLA.

Introductions

Mary Ann Beyster, President, The Foundation for Enterprise Development
Mary Ann Beyster became the President of the Foundation for Enterprise Development (FED) in 2005. The FED is a non-profit operating foundation focused on promoting the concepts of broad-based, participative employee ownership and entrepreneurism. At the FED, she established a research and education initiative including fellowships at six universities; curriculum/case study development; a new international dissertation award program; and the creation of the largest on-line curriculum library on employee ownership/shared capitalism for business educators. She is working in collaboration with Aspen Institute, Employee Ownership Foundation, and other non-profits. Mary Ann is also working directly with government agencies in support of small business technology transition and commercialization. Her consulting and management experience in business, market and technology development came from her tenure at SAIC, CH2MHill, and SRI International. She holds a master’s degree in management from MIT, and a bachelor’s degree from California Polytechnic State University in industrial and systems engineering.

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Registration Fees

MITEF Members and Sponsors:  FREE (Registration Required)
Non-MITEF Members:  $40
CONNECT Members: $25

MIT Alumni:  $25 (with MIT email address)
Full-Time Students:  $15 (with University email address)
At the door: $50

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