In my post titled Why the Number of ESOPs is not Growing at a Faster Rate, I stated that we need to look at what actions need to be taken to increase the ESOP growth rate. One way to increase the ESOP growth rate is by making sure that employee ownership is included in academic discussions with our next generation of business leaders and advisors. A Quiet Breakthrough discusses the first ever MBA course in employee ownership:

"It took students deep into the nature of equity as a currency available to business to achieve entrepreneurial goals; the nature of wealth creation and the rationale for sharing ownership; the techniques for creating the "stake in the outcome" for employees that makes it all work; the factors that go into creating an "ownership culture" or a "community of stakeholders" and the reasons why it makes sense financially, personally and socially"

The article also discusses the benefits of including employee ownership in academic discussions:

"To the extent that the nation's graduate schools of business begin to incorporate discussion about employee ownership into curricula, employee ownership's likelihood of finding a permanent place in the economic landscape of our country (and the world) is increased exponentially. Our generation of educators has the opportunity and the obligation to help the coming generations of business leaders, teachers and advisors learn and think positively about employee ownership."