Thought Leadership

Increasing numbers of businesses view their employees not as a mere cost but as invaluable contributors for business success. These firms are implementing strategies to fully engage employees at all levels. The Employees Matter report identifies sixteen fast growing entrepreneurial firms that employ employee ownership and engagement strategies which they perceive as directly correlated with improved business performance.

As part of the Beyond Paycheck-to-Paycheck Initiative, SJF surveyed 17 CDVC entities (23 separate CDVC funds under management) as well as three traditional equity investors (for a total of 20 funds surveyed) to get a sense of existing mechanisms to assist entry level employees of portfolio companies in building assets and, where possible, participating in the upside of investor exit.

This report seeks to understand the evolution, potential, and needs of domestic IEs and to identify philanthropic, private, and public investment opportunities that can be targeted to accelerate growth and increase the likelihood of success among IEs and the emerging “impact economy” in the US.

This white paper examines open-book management and the benefits of applying its principles to improve employee satisfaction, engagement, retention, motivation, innovation and corporate sustainability.

The SJF Institute, which connects, inspires and accelerates sustainable entrepreneurs and was formerly known as SJF Advisory Services, today unveiled a new scope of influence and ideas at the SJF Summit on the New Green Economy at the Durham Marriott Convention Center.

This resource provides descriptions of various broad-based employee incentive arrangements.