Archive for the 'Employee Ownership' Category
Beyster Fellowship Symposium Recap
0 Comments Published by Dr. Beyster July 3rd, 2010 in Employee Ownership, FED.This week the second Beyster Fellowship Symposium took place here in La Jolla. It involved many sessions, all located at the La Valencia Hotel. The Beyster Fellowships are supported by the Foundation for Enterprise Development to do graduate, doctoral, and post-doctoral studies in the area of employee ownership.
Fifty people participated in the proceedings, and there [...]
Open Book Management and Feeling Better
2 Comments Published by Dr. Beyster May 10th, 2010 in Employee Ownership, San Diego.My daughter Mary Ann Beyster recently brought an interesting article to my attention. The article is about a company in Missouri by the name of SRC Holdings Corporation. The company practices what is known as “open book” management, that is, all employees are given detailed company financial information on a regular basis and taught what [...]
Entrepreneur of the Year Semifinalists, ARCS Foundation Celebration, and Thoughts on Founding a Company
2 Comments Published by Dr. Beyster May 1st, 2010 in Employee Ownership, Entrepreneurship, San Diego.Entrepreneur of the Year Semifinalists
Last Thursday I participated in the one-on-one interview process with the local Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year semifinalists. We met at the Hilton Torrey Pines for several hours. During that time, I had the opportunity to interview some very dynamic and successful local entrepreneurs. The companies represented by these [...]
Beyster Fellowship Symposium, General Atomics Alumni, and Sailing to Oceanside
0 Comments Published by Dr. Beyster April 3rd, 2010 in Employee Ownership, Technology.In March of this year, the Foundation for Enterprise Development sponsored the first Beyster Fellowship symposium on shared capitalism and employee ownership. It took place here in La Jolla and was attended by roughly 40 people with 15 formal presentations and much informal discussion. The proceedings of the meeting are now available to anyone who [...]
Beyster Fellowships and the America’s Cup
3 Comments Published by Dr. Beyster February 18th, 2010 in Employee Ownership, FED, San Diego.This past July 22-23, the FED conducted the 2009 Beyster Fellowship Symposium here in La Jolla at the Museum of Modern Art. There were more than 40 attendees, many of whom are being supported by the FED to write reports on specific aspects of employee ownership. The proceedings of the symposium will soon be available [...]
Book Ideas, Employee Ownership, and Alternative Energy Solutions
10 Comments Published by Dr. Beyster January 18th, 2010 in Employee Ownership, Energy, Network Solutions.I would like to thank all of you who responded to my post a couple weeks ago asking for your opinion on which theme we should address in our next book. It seems to me that the votes were pretty evenly split between big-idea book and a book about the Network Solutions story. As I [...]
