Samantha (Sam) Silberstein, CFP®, CSLP®, EA, is an experienced financial consultant. She has a demonstrated history of working in both institutional and retail environments, from broker-dealers to ...

Investment in funds that enable employee ownership jumped 73% to roughly $865 million last year—and there’s plenty of room to grow. Employee-owned businesses can help eliminate wealth inequality, but ...

Shares don’t create partners. Systems do.

An old movement to grow employee ownership is getting new life, with the goal of shrinking wealth inequality. The concept isn’t unprecedented — not at all, really. “Collective ownership is centuries ...

What if, instead of working toward an exit strategy, we built companies for longevity? That’s the question at the heart of employee ownership. It’s not just a perk to lure talent. It’s a fundamentally ...

For many entrepreneurs, the dream is to hand off their business to their children. But what happens when the next generation ...

An increasing proportion of Americans are worried that the adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies will displace their jobs, up to 22% in 2023 from 13% in 2017, ...

The cultural shift that comes with employee ownership may be the most underrated competitive advantage in the industry.

Employee ownership can increase creativity, engagement and perhaps even profits, but it requires a change in culture. Successful companies educate their workers, solicit their ideas, give them agency ...

Some of the most important leadership work in our company doesn’t happen in the C-suite. It happens in our committees. For instance, I remember one year when our healthcare committee recommended ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on May 5, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. Fifty years ago, CEOs earned around 20 times the median worker salary. Today's CEO can make ...