Ben Jerry's Double Dip: How to Run a Values Led Business and Make Money Too

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Simon and Schuster, May 13, 1998 - Business & Economics - 300 pages
Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc., has done more than win the tastebuds of America -- it has earned the admiration of Wall Street and established a model for business owners and employees eager to earn profits without compromising their principles. In Ben & Jerry's Double-Dip, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield offer the ultimate insider's guide to creating a values-led business that makes money while benefiting the entire community. Using examples from their own company as well as a host of others, these renowned innovators reveal:
  • How your commitment to worthy social causes will result in unprecedented customer and employee loyalty -- and increased profit
  • Practical advice on everything -- from hiring employees to choosing suppliers
  • Nuts-and-bolts information on values-led finance, retailing, and human resources

Ben & Jerry's Double-Dip is essential reading for anyone who owns, works for, invests in, or shops at a socially responsible business.
 

Contents

Being Here Now
13
What Do You Mean ValuesLed Business?
29
ValuesLed
55
ValuesLed Finance
87
ValuesLed Retailing
108
Marketing for Real
129
ValuesLed Human Resources
161
Taking Stands
196
International Growth
226
The Future of ValuesLed Business
236
The Social Performance Report
259
Resource Guide
277
Index
287
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Bennett Cohen is a businessman, activist and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of the ice cream company Ben & Jerry's Bennett Cohen is a businessman, activist and philanthropist. He is a co-founder of the ice cream company Ben & Jerry's

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