I went to my first corporate shareholder’s meeting today – for Microsoft in Bellevue. I never went while I was an employee, we used to joke that it was at 8 am specifically to dissuade programmers from attending. I checked with someone afterwards and the content of the meeting is public, in fact you can [...]
Archive for November, 2009
A Shareholder-eye view
Posted in Along the Way on November 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Studying cooperativism
Posted in Along the Way, Cooperativism on November 9, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Reading the Equal Exchange Blog I learned they have a member who is getting a masters in cooperative (and credit union) management. It’s an online program through St Mary’s University of Halifax, Nova Scotia. According to their Spring 2009 newsletter “It is the only Master’s degree in co-operative management offered in English by an internationally accredited business [...]
Cooperatives vs Unions…the twain shall meet!
Posted in Along the Way on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’m not generally a breaking-news blogger, but This Just In courtesy of David Smathers Moore, founder of the Teamworks Cooperative Network in San Francisco. Mondragon and the United Steelworkers union have signed an agreement to work together and develop hybrid union-cooperative process. Initially the unions will seek to implement Mondragon-style share ownership options when collective bargaining [...]
