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Why the U.S. Needs More Worker-Owned Companies

Harvard Business Review

On their own merits, worker-owned businesses can show policy makers, investors, managers, and advisers that companies with democratic ownership values and structures are operated with the same profit motivation as other companies. ESOPs typically allocate shares to employees in proportion to their pay.

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Huawei: A Case Study of When Profit Sharing Works

Harvard Business Review

At Huawei’s inception, Zhengfei designed the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The structure of the ESOP is based on two important premises. Huawei’s ESOP can satisfy both human needs. For its part, Huawei’s internal policy is to use U.S. law as the guiding law in their international business.).