

Discover more from EO+WD | Employee Ownership + Workplace Democracy
A joint project of UTA professor Mark Hand and students at UTA & SMU, the Research Cluster on Employee Ownership + Workplace Democracy is dedicated to sharing and discussing new developments in purpose trusts, employee ownership, and workplace democracy.
Continue reading
Video: Is a Purpose Trust an Option for Your Business?
In conversation with Peter Boumgarden and Ari Weinzweig
I had a fun conversation last week enjoyed with an old friend and a new one:
Peter Boumgarden is a Professor of Practice for Family Enterprise at Washington University in St. Louis’s Olin Business School
Ari Weinzweig is a restaurateur and writer, among other things, who recently placed the ownership of his companies’ brand into a perpetual purpose trust.
Ari shared his and Zingerman’s story; I talked about a paper Peter and I are working on with Simon Pek on the alternatives available to family business owners thinking about future ownership of their business.
Dr. Boumgarden asked us to keep it brief. We ignored him!