Rutgers University - Our Share: Employee Ownership as a Wealth Sharing Tool 

Welcome and Course Introduction (Adria Scharf, Director of Education and Collaborations for the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing)

How Business Ownership Usually Works: Ownership Models in Business (Adria Scharf)

What Is Employee Ownership?

Where is Employee Ownership Found? (Adriane Clomax, Research Fellow)

Greetings from the Founders of Two Companies (Tracy Till and Jarret Schlaff)

Three Trends (Adria Scharf)

Wealth Inequality "By the Numbers" Animation

The Racial Wealth Gap (Adriane Clomax)

Reflections on Community Wealth Building (Jessica Gordon Nembhard, Professor, John Jay College)

Where Do Most Employee Owned Firms Come From? (Joseph Blasi, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing)

How Can Regular Employees Buy a Business? (Joseph Blasi)

A Stunning Set of Statistics: The "Silver Tsunami" (Joseph Blasi)

In Our Own Words: Video Clips

Visual Guides to ESOPs and Worker Cooperatives

Defining Wealth

Recommended Readings (optional)

Five Reasons W​hy Business Owners Sell to Employees (Required Reading)

"What is Employee Ownership?" Quiz

"What is Wealth"? Quiz

"Silver Tsunami" Quiz

Introduction to Types of Employee Ownership (Adria Scharf)

Employee Stock Ownership Plans (Corey Rosen, Founder of the National Center for Employee Ownership)

Worker Cooperatives (Esteban Kelly, Executive Director of US Federation of Worker Cooperatives)

Equity Compensation (Corey Rosen)

Employee Ownership Trusts (Christopher Michael, Managing Director of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing)

Founding Traditions in the United States (Joseph Blasi, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing))

Worker Ownership and the Black Cooperative Tradition (Jessica Gordon Nembhard)

Optional Video: Historical Evolution of Employee Ownership (Joseph Blasi)

Profiles of Five ESOP Companies

Profiles of Two Worker Cooperatives

Types of Employee Ownership: How They Work

Global Case Studies

"Types of Employee Ownership" Quiz

"Historical Traditions" Quiz

Three Major Takeaways from Decades of Research (Douglas Kruse, Associate Director and Co-Founder of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing)

Employee Ownership and Worker Wealth (Adria Scharf)

Worker Ownership and Unions (Sanjay Pinto, Co-director of the Project on Unions and Worker Ownership at the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing)

New Research on Workers of Color in ESOPs (Adriane Clomax)

First National Study of Individuals in Worker Cooperatives (Laura Schlachter)

Benefits of Worker Cooperatives: Productivity, Leadership Development, Reinvestment (Jessica Gordon Nembhard)

Recommendations for Implementing Equity Compensation Programs (William Castellano, Professor of Human Resource Management, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations)

Creating Mutual Gains: Stock Options and Diversity (Joo Hun Han, Associate Professor of Human Resource Management, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations)

Summary of the Research Updates (Adria Scharf)

Recommended Reading: Studies Cited in Videos (Optional)

Recommended Reading: Studies Cited in Videos (Optional)

Recommended Reading: Studies Cited in Videos (Optional)

"Research" Quiz

"Research on Cooperatives and Equity Compensation" Quiz

Why and How We Sold Our Business to the Employees through an ESOP (Tracy Till, co-founder of ESOP company)

Lessons Learned: The Team of Experts (Legal Advisor, Trustee, Valuation Firm) (Tracy Till)

Lessons Learned: The Importance of Communications (Tracy Till)

(Optional Video) Reflection on the Cost, and Tax Benefits, of Our ESOP (Tracy Till)

Important Questions to Ask First (Jennifer Briggs)

Why and How We Started a Worker Cooperative (Jarret Schlaff, co-founder of worker cooperative)

Lessons Learned Starting a Worker Cooperative (Jarret Schlaff)

Important Questions to Ask Before Considering a Cooperative (Esteban Kelly)

What You Can Do: Some Examples of Ways to Support Worker Ownership (Esteban Kelly)

Conclusion (Adria Scharf)

Optional: Resource for Implementation

Optional: A Partial List of Nonprofit and Educational Organizations for Guidance

"Implementation" Quiz

Final Assessment