National Center for Employee Ownership

Choosing the Structure for Your Employee Ownership Plan

Deciding on an employee ownership structure involves more than just picking out a plan. Even if a structure with special requirements is selected, you mus...  Read more

CEO's Notebook: Stock Options Equity

Tips and resources on offering stock options, sharing equity, teaching employees about their stock, and discouraging them from selling stock to start their o...  Read more

Easing into ESOP Education

A recent issue of the National Center for Employee Ownership's Employee Ownership Report features a mental-health-services company called Telecar...  Read more

The Difference a Stake Makes

Resource for setting up an employee stock ownership plan.  Read more

A Slowdown in New ESOPs

NCEO chart reflecting the growth of ESOPs in the last six years.  Read more

ESOP Alternatives

Book outlining alternatives to ESOP plans.  Read more

ESOP Loans

Booklet provides information on ESOP lending.  Read more

Every Worker An Owner?

Several new books explore the attractions of ESOPs. But what are the drawbacks?  Read more

What to read. The National Center for Employee Ownership (426 17th St., Suite 650, Oakland CA 94612) publishes any number of brochures, pamphlets, and ot...  Read more

The Inc. Network

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Can You Become a Public Company Without Realizing It?

Say, for example, you have a fast-growing company and a broad-based stock-option plan. "If a certain number of employees exercise their options, the compa...  Read more

Four Steps to Building Better Businesspeople

If dividend checks, 20% increases in stock value, and record sales numbers are exciting business victories that put more money in your wallet, how did the...  Read more

The Numbers on Open-book Management

Inc.'s editor looks at the effects open-book management can have on a company's bottom line; the mutual benefits of mentoring; and a photo lab that offers bu...  Read more

No Fund

Honeywell cancels plans for a $10-million fund to help small companies fight patent infringement.  Read more

The Boom in Employee Ownership

Inc. gets the scoop on the effects of stock options from Corey Rosen, cofounder of the National Center for Employee Ownership.  Read more

Notebook

Statistics and miscellaneous information about start-ups.  Read more

ESOPs or Stock Options: Which Will Work for Your Company?

ESOPs: The Basics An employee stock ownership plan is a kind of qualified employee benefit plan, meaning it qualifiesfor tax benef...  Read more

How Small Is Too Small for an ESOP?

One question frequently asked by company leaders on the topic of employee ownership is Are we too small to have an employee stock ownership plan? ...  Read more

Hotline

Current trends and legislation affecting small business.  Read more

How Do I Find An Esop Expert?

Two nonprofit organizations distribute lists of ESOP practitioners. One is the National Center for Employee Ownership, located at 4836 S. 28th St., ...  Read more

Hotline

Hotline informational paragraphs for January 1990.  Read more

When Employees Share Stock Pain, Not Gain

More employees are sharing in company gains through stock option plans, but what happens when the pricedrops and it comes time to share the pain? M...  Read more

Getting a Life

Inc. magazine's editor-in-chief discusses having a business and a life; sharing equity with employees; why being first may not be best; And...  Read more

What Does It Mean to Be an Owner?

Your company sets up an employee stock ownership plan and tells you -- loudly and repeatedly -- that now you too are an owner. But you look at your accoun...  Read more

Getting a Life

em Inc. /em magazine's editor-in-chief discusses having a business em and /em a life; sha...  Read more

Esop's Rising Stock

What's behind the spread of employee stock ownership plans.  Read more

Are Esops Feeble?

Hyatt-Clark Industries Inc. filed for Chapter 11 protection last January, but its misfortune didn't prove that employee equity is a bankrupt idea. I...  Read more

We're thinking of offering stock options. Any tips?

Make sure employees understand what they're getting into. When a number of employees at BroadBand Technologies, in Research Triangle Park...  Read more

The Inc. Network

Reader-to-reader advice.  Read more

Employee Ownership

Employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) serve a variety of purposes, from providing owners with liquidity to rewarding and retaining valued employees to de...  Read more

"the Pool Would Be Nice, Boss, But We'd Rather Have The Cash"

An ESOT has turned Marquetters into tightfisted stockholders.  Read more

Network: September 1992

Network questions and answers.  Read more

Esops;

Sure, ESOPs can be cumbersome and tricky. But despite the bad press, they can be exactly what your company needs  Read more

Resources;

Issue and debate: ESOPs have been what journalists call "good copy" over the past few years. One genre: the gosh-ain't-it-wonderful story, exemplified by...  Read more

Why Banks Like ESOPs

ESOPs as a means to cash liquidity tax deductions.  Read more

Resources

A comprehensive resource guide to many of the subjects featured in the April issue of Inc. magazine.  Read more

How To Decide If Your Company Needs An Esop

An Employee Stock Ownership Plan carries three fundamental benefits and three fundamental disadvantages for a closely held company. Briefly, the ben...  Read more

By the Numbers

Is open-book management the right approach for your business?  Read more

Give Them a Piece of the Action

Manoj Tripathi had a great job with a great company. He worked as chief information officer for retail giant the Body Shop and was there during its fast-g...  Read more

Network: January 1993

Network questions and answers: reader-to-reader advice on miscellaneous topics.  Read more