# Next Generation Enterprise Design

![](/sites/default/files/styles/article_image/public/CSB%20Logo%20NewsEvents_2.png?itok=JnBA2zYu)  Monday, April 29, 2019 9:00 AM to 6:00 PM  44 West 4th St. Kaufman Management Center, Barr-Kawamura Commons, Room 5-50 This event is hosted by the Fifty by Fifty Initiative of The Democracy Collaborative and NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business. We will bring together a group of pioneering business leaders for a day-long discussion of this powerful next generation enterprise design. Fifty By Fifty, a project of the Democracy Collaborative, will share new research about the performance, resilience, and durability of employee-owned for-benefit corps. The following topics will be discussed: • What new ownership and governance designs are needed if business is to truly be a force for good?

• Are mission-controlled, employee-owned companies better environmental stewards than conventional finance-controlled corporations?

• Is transitioning to employee ownership a powerful path to keeping a firm’s social and ecological mission alive, compared to selling a firm to an outside investor?

• How can we encourage more firms to protect their missions and empower their employees?

• What will happen to thousands of successful Benefit corps after their founders retire?

**Host Committee**:
**Jay Coen Gilbert**, Co-founder, B Lab
**Amy Hall**, Director of Social Consciousness, EILEEN FISHER
**Jeffrey Hollender**, Co-founder and CEO, Sustain Natural
**Marjorie Kelly**, Executive Vice President, The Democracy Collaborative
**Ian McFarlane**, President and CEO, EA Engineering, Science and Technology
**Tensie Whelan**, Director, NYU Stern Center for Sustainable Business