Welcome Back!
The weather has cooled and fall is approaching⌠right? đ
What Weâve Been WritingÂ
Megan covers marketing firm The Walker Groupâs transition to a perpetual purpose trust
Dr. Hand details the long and fascinating history of town halls in America as well as a new database for open jobs at employee owned firmsÂ
Tiffany explores whether employee ownership could be one way for the NFL to address the lack of diversity in team ownership
What Weâve Been ReadingÂ
Oregon Prof. Susan Garyâs new paper just dropped: The Changing Landscape of Business Succession: How and Why Purpose Trusts Matter
Yifat Aran and Raviv Murciano-Goroff cover why employees should carefully consider equity compensationÂ
Last week Patagonia celebrated the one year anniversary of their transition to a perpetual purpose trusts dedicated to saving the climateÂ
Read more on KKRâs plan to make book publisher Simon & Schuster employee-owned and whether private equity can truly âplay niceâ
Coming Up This Week
The National Center for Employee Ownershipâ hits Houston this week for its Fall Forum
Our friends at Common Trust will participate in an ImpactAlpha forum titled Agents of Impact Call 54: The employee-ownership edge
In Case You Missed ItÂ
Texas made a major move to allow the creation of (practically) perpetual purpose trusts in the state; be sure to check out Dr. Handâs coverage on the new legislationÂ
We attended the National Center for Employee Ownershipâs EOT peer gathering this week, which focused on the role of public policy in supporting EOTs
The Employee Ownership + Workplace Democracy Research Cluster (EO+WD) is a joint project of UT-Arlington professor Mark Hand and students at UTA and SMU.