Employee Ownership: Wealth Sharing Tool

Adria Scharf, PhD, serves as the Director of Education and Collaborations for the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. She holds the title of Associate Director and Beyster Fellow and also directs the Curriculum Library for Employee Ownership. In her role, Scharf focuses on advancing educational initiatives and collaborations that promote the understanding and implementation of employee ownership and profit-sharing models.

Joseph Blasi is the J. Robert Beyster Distinguished Professor and Director of the Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing at Rutgers University's School of Management and Labor Relations. An economic sociologist, he teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses on corporate governance, with research interests spanning economic sociology, social and economic history, and public policy. His work focuses on capital shares, particularly broad-based employee stock ownership, profit sharing, gain sharing, and stock options across various corporations, industries, and historical contexts, including a recent study of Silicon Valley. Dr. Blasi is a Visiting Associate at the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study and serves as a Senior Fellow at The Aspen Institute. He has authored thirteen books, including The Citizen’s Share: Reducing Inequality in the 21st Century (Yale University Press, 2013), Shared Capitalism at Work (University of Chicago Press, 2010), and In The Company of Owners (Basic Books, 2003). His scholarly articles have been published in leading journals such as The British Journal of Industrial Relations and Industrial Relations. Since joining Rutgers in 1989, he has been active in the University Senate and has held various prestigious research roles, including with the National Bureau of Economic Research and as a Visiting Professor at institutions like Princeton University and Yale School of Management. Blasi, who received his doctorate from Harvard University, has also served as a Legislative Assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives early in his career.