Ice Cream Social
The Struggle for the Soul of Ben & Jerry's

I'm biased because I wrote it. I spent two solid years on the project because it's such an important an interesting story. If you believe that business people should find ways to combine social activism and selling, this book is for you.......more

It's hard to really articulate how much I liked this book, because my writing and verbal skills are less than spectacular. I might even bypass the word "like" because reading this was about more than just enjoying it. I help run a successful, and yet dysfunctional food cooperative in Asheville. Alth......more

One of my most vivid memories of the dozens of Social Venture Network (SVN) conferences I’ve attended over the years was seeing Ben Cohen walking into the dining hall in 2000, in tears over the sale of Ben & Jerry’s to Unilever. I went over to hug him — that’s the sort of thing you do at SVN confere......more

I went into this book with low expectations about the subject matter. The analyses of socially conscious businesses which I have read all point to business models that hope to turn an additional x% uptick in costs into a 2x% increase in margins - essentially another marketing angle. However, the hist......more

I enjoyed this book though I thought the timelines bounced around a bit. I haven't been a consistent consumer of Ben & Jerry's. I had heard of the sale of the company and assumed that it was no longer a socially conscious company. When we visited the Waterbury, VT ice cream factory last October, I b......more