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13 Aug 2008 3 Comments

Thoughts on Social Business, Part 2: I Scream for Yogurt

Several posts ago, we blogged about the idea of using for-profit business models for social benefits, one example of this being Ben & Jerry’s partnership with the ONE Campaign.  While we salute this effort and contribution to improve the quality of life, we posed the following question: Is there a more effective way to use business [...]

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