@JosephBlasi

Beyster Professor/Director Emeritus, Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership & Profit Sharing, Rutgers University SMLR, The Citizen's Share Yale U Press

 New Brunswick, NJ
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Joined September 2013
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Watch my Keynote at the Harvard Business School "Ownership Project" on video and download at the attached slides to follow along. THIS IS MY TAKE ON HOW #EMPLOYEEOWNERSHIP CAN SCALE UP TO THE NATION AS A WHOLE. hbs.edu/bigs/about/research/… smlr.rutgers.edu/Keynote_Spe…

Employee Share Ownership | Institute for Business in Global Society

Evidence, Lessons, and Big Ideas

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Three ways Trump could get a stake in AI firms for the US—It’s from the public domain! reuters.com/legal/transactio…

Three ways Trump could get a stake in AI firms for the US

U.S. President Donald Trump said he is exploring options to give the public a ​stake in leading AI companies, in response to concerns that individual Americans will not share in the sector’s expected...

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Profit sharing for workers affected by AI. Please listen to my National Public Radio interview. Samsung deal could deliver $400,000 bonuses to AI chip workers theworld.org/segments/2026/0…

Samsung deal could deliver $400,000 bonuses to AI chip workers - The World from PRX

Soaring demand for the high-bandwidth memory chips powering AI systems is expected to generate huge profits. Now, workers at Samsung Electronics have struck a deal to share some of that wealth. Under...

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Rutgers Launches Employee Ownership Applied Research Lab to Bridge Research and Real-World Practice | Newswise newswise.com/articles/rutger…

Rutgers Launches Employee Ownership Applied Research Lab to Bridge Research and Real-World Practice...

The Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing is turning rigorous academic research into practical tools for business owners, advisors, impact investors, family...

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For broad-based ownership & to create a middle class for 250 years U.S. policy relied on land then home ownership then employee share ownership. THE NEW HOMESTEAD ACT would be citizen equity and dividend shares in the top companies that own AI/software/robots. SEE MY INTERVIEW.
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.@RutgersU’s Joseph Blasi, a leading researcher on employee ownership, proposes a version of a sovereign wealth fund or funds, akin to Alaska’s Permanent Fund – fueled by data and AI rather than oil. hubs.li/Q03-z3Xl0

Joseph Blasi: Give workers a stake in AI’s upside through state and federal ‘permanent funds’ (Q&A)

Rutgers's Joseph Blasi proposes a version of a sovereign wealth fund, akin to Alaska’s Permanent Fund – fueled by data and AI rather than oil.  

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ImpactAlpha@ImpactAlphaJan 13
.@RutgersU’s Joseph Blasi, a leading researcher on employee ownership, proposes a version of a sovereign wealth fund or funds, akin to Alaska’s Permanent Fund – fueled by data and AI rather than oil. hubs.li/Q03-z3Xl0

Joseph Blasi: Give workers a stake in AI’s upside through state and federal ‘permanent funds’ (Q&A)

Rutgers's Joseph Blasi proposes a version of a sovereign wealth fund, akin to Alaska’s Permanent Fund – fueled by data and AI rather than oil.  

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INVITATION TO DEC 19 PRIVATE EQUITY AND EMPLOYEE SHARE OWNERSHIP EVENT: The Institute for the Study of #EmployeeOwnership & #ProfitSharing invites you to a ZOOM CONFERENCE on December 19th where private equity partners will present deals. Register here: smlr.rutgers.edu/privateequi…
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NEW RESEARCH INITIATIVE IN CANADA: Queen's University in Canada's Smith School of Business is launching a nationwide Canadian research initiative on employee share ownership. Check out this news. smith.queensu.ca/news_blog/2…
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NEW STUDY: Uses National Longitudinal Survey to follow youth’s careers comparing ESOP to non-ESOP workers. WKKellogg Foundation and the Employee Ownership Foundation. .⁦@ESOPAssociation⁩ .⁦@EmployeeOwnedUS⁩ .⁦@theNCEO⁩ .⁦@AspenEOP⁩ nceo.org/employee-ownership-…

New Data on Employee Ownership and Economic Well-Being

An update to the NCEO's economic well-being research shows the continued strength of employee-owners in the labor market.

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Interesting Reading! Recommending Harvard Business School’s report on their first #employee ownership conference where I gave the Keynote address. .⁦@ESOPAssociation⁩ .⁦@EmployeeOwnedUS⁩ .⁦@theNCEO⁩ .⁦@AspenEOP⁩ .⁦@RU_SMLR⁩ drive.google.com/file/d/1UMF…

HBS_BiGS_Worker_Ownership_FINAL-DIGITAL-Remediated.pdf

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Delighted to be speaking this evening at the Aspen Ideas Economy Festival in Newark about #employeeownership Stay tuned for the video @RU_SMLR What And Who—Is an Economy For? | Aspen Ideas aspenideas.org/sessions/open…
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Watch my video comparing UK & US employee share ownership sectors with my policy ideas, the Robert Oakeshott Lecture given Sept 1 in London. .⁦@RU_SMLR⁩ .⁦@theNCEO⁩ .⁦@ESOPAssociation⁩ .⁦@EmployeeOwnedUS⁩ .⁦@AspenEOP⁩ youtu.be/ZrrjJYZq3CE
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Global Research Prize on #employee ownership awarded to UK Professors Andrew Pendelton and Andrew Robinson. Read their paper on Employee Ownership Trusts in the UK. .⁦@RU_SMLR⁩ .⁦@theNCEO⁩ .⁦@AspenEOP⁩ kellogg.ox.ac.uk/news/winner…

Winners announced for the inaugural Nigel Mason Award - Kellogg College

The Centre on Mutual and Co-Owned Business at Kellogg College has announced the winners of the inaugural Nigel Mason Award for Employee Ownership Research – the UK’s only prize dedicated […]

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Happening-Now: Rutgers-Oxford University conference on #employeeownership Check out the agenda. .⁦@RU_SMLR⁩ .⁦@ESOPAssociation⁩ .⁦@EmployeeOwnedUS⁩ .@Aspen.⁦@theNCEO⁩ smlr.rutgers.edu/rutgers-oxf…
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BROAD_BASED EQUITY COMPENSATION BILL: Half of employee ownership is equity compensation, restricted stock/Stock Purchase Plans/options .@theNCEO .@AspenEOP .@RU_SMLR New bill in Congress would reward companies that give stock to rank-and-file employees cnb.cx/4m8i8Ff

New bill in Congress would reward companies that give stock to rank-and-file employees

The new bill in Congress would give a tax discount to companies that distribute stock to their lowest paid employees.

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Watch a cool frank discussion among Senators on ESOPs July 24 with my testimony & company CEOs— Expanding Employee Ownership, Senate Labor Committee .@theesopassociation .⁦@EmployeeOwnedUS⁩ .⁦@theNCEO⁩ .⁦@AspenEOP⁩ .⁦@RU_SMLR⁩ help.senate.gov/

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SEE MY LIVE SENATE TESTIMONY Thurs 10 am Empowering Workers by Expanding Employee Ownership, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor & Pensions .⁦@RU_SMLR⁩ .⁦@ESOPAssociation⁩ .⁦@EmployeeOwnedUS⁩ .⁦@theNCEO⁩ .⁦@AspenEOP⁩ help.senate.gov/

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Patricia Hetter Kelso was the current leading theoretical figure on worker equity shares & citizen ownership stakes when she died last week and a signal female economic intellectual of the last century. Irreplaceable! .@ESOPAssociation .@EmployeeOwnedUS .@theNCEO .@AspenEOP
Joseph Blasi@JosephBlasi9 Jul 2025
BREAKING NEWS: Let’s honor Patricia Kelso who passed July 4th— a leading thought leader/author on ESOPs and employee share ownership. Here is the video of her Rutgers Institute for the Study of #EmployeeOwnership talk . .⁦⁦⁦@RU_SMLR⁩ youtu.be/M1BrXUF6yJQ
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BREAKING NEWS: Let’s honor Patricia Kelso who passed July 4th— a leading thought leader/author on ESOPs and employee share ownership. Here is the video of her Rutgers Institute for the Study of #EmployeeOwnership talk . .⁦⁦⁦@RU_SMLR⁩ youtu.be/M1BrXUF6yJQ
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BREAKING NEWS: Let’s honor Patricia Kelso who passed July 4th— a leading thought leader/author on ESOPs and employee share ownership. Here is the video of her Rutgers Institute for the Study of #EmployeeOwnership talk . .⁦⁦⁦@RU_SMLR⁩ youtu.be/M1BrXUF6yJQ
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