Meet our team
Team members and contributors
The study team who conducted research and helped prepare this report include:
- David Levine – Professor, UC Berkeley – Principal Investigator, through the Institute for Business and Social Impact within the Haas School of Business
- Daniel Spitzberg – UC Berkeley – Report Editor and Researcher (expert interviews)
- Adria Scharf – Associate Director, Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing (ISEOPS) – Researcher (ACLC) and Expert Adviser
- William Foley – PhD Student, Rutgers ISEOPS – Researcher (literature review)
- K. MacKenzie Scott – PhD Candidate, MIT Sloan School – Researcher (case studies)
- Gonçalo Costa – Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School – Researcher (statistics)
- Minsun Ji – Executive Director, Rocky Mountain Employee Ownership Center – Researcher (case studies)
- Douglas Kruse – Distinguished Professor, Rutgers University School of Management and Labor Relations and Research Director and ISEOPS – Expert Adviser
- Ed Carberry – Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Boston – Consulting Adviser
- Jungook Kim – Assistant Professor, Chatham University – Consulting Adviser
- Douglas Hirsch – UC Berkeley – Project Manager
- Ray Rios – UC Berkeley Haas School of Business – Administrative Adviser
- Gabriella Rosario – UC Berkeley – Research Intern
- Adam Ross – UC Berkeley Institute for Business and Social Impact – Adviser
Our team would like to thank a number of individuals for their important contributions to this report.
First, we are grateful to all of the workers, managers, and business owners who shared their time and insights with us in our research.
We are also grateful to each interviewee who shared their expert perspective on worker ownership, high-road employment, labor contracting, employment law, and other topics at the heart of our study.
We also extend our gratitude to those who reviewed our report:
- Hilary Abell – Co-Founder and former Chief Policy & Impact Officer, Project Equity
- Joseph Blasi – Professor, Rutgers School of Management and Labor Relations, and Director, Rutgers ISEOPS
- Camille Kerr – Founder and Principal, Upside Down Consulting
- Hyungsik Eum – former Research Director, International Cooperative Alliance
- Mishal Khan – Lead Policy Researcher, UC Berkeley Labor Center
- Nathan Schneider – Professor, University of Colorado Boulder and Founding Director, MEDLab
- Jason Spicer – Assistant Professor, Baruch College Marxe School of Public and International Affairs
The Rutgers Institute for the Study of Employee Ownership and Profit Sharing has been a partner in every sense for the creation of this report. The Rutgers Institute ran the National ESOP Employee Survey and added questions on employee ownership to the General Social Survey with financial support from the Employee Ownership Foundation from 2002 to 2018, and from Google.org in 2022. We are grateful to the Rutgers Institute and these donors for providing the data we analyzed.
Finally, we are grateful to the staff at the California Labor and Workforce Development Agency for their feedback; to members of the Advisory Panel for their guidance; and to members of the general public for their comments on our work.
For questions about our study, contact Professor David I. Levine.