Can businesses help repair society? (with Ben & Jerry)

Pitchfork Economics with Nick Hanauer

Civic Ventures

Business, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2021

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Can business leaders use their power and resources to make meaningful change? Should they? Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, the founders behind iconic ice cream brand Ben & Jerry’s, help map the landscape between business and activism and introduce their new project, the Campaign to End Qualified Immunity. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are the co-founders of Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream. Most recently, they are the leaders of the Campaign to End Qualified Immunity, a new police reform and criminal justice campaign. Ben’s twitter: @YoBenCohen Show us some love by leaving a rating or a review! RateThisPodcast.com/pitchforkeconomics https://campaigntoendqualifiedimmunity.org/ Website: http://pitchforkeconomics.com/ Twitter: @PitchforkEcon Instagram: @pitchforkeconomics Nick’s twitter: @NickHanauer

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0:00.0	Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield definitely are heroes in the world of people who
0:08.4	care about business for social purpose. When people talk about businesses being
0:14.0	ethical, what they mean by that is that they're not breaking the law. They have
0:18.9	not yet been criminally indicted. That's business ethics in America. And I
0:25.0	think we need to raise the bar a little bit. From the home offices of civic
0:34.2	ventures in downtown Seattle, this is pitchfork economics with Nick Hanauer, the
0:39.2	best place to get the truth about who gets what and why.
0:48.2	I'm Nick Hanauer, founder of Civic Ventures. I'm David Goldstein, senior fellow at
0:54.7	Civic Ventures.
1:00.0	Today on the podcast, I'm just giddy because we get to talk to Ben and Jerry of
1:06.8	ice cream fame. Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield are in fact the co-founders of
1:11.8	Ben and Jerry's ice cream. And definitely are heroes in the world of people
1:20.0	who care about business for social purpose. And I've done a marvelous job. You
1:25.8	know, they sold the company some time ago, but did a great job in making sure that
1:31.3	the company did right by its employees. It's community, the country at large, and
1:36.7	it shareholders too. And it'll be super fun to chat with them on whether business
1:42.6	can be a force of good or how business can be a force of good in societies.
1:50.0	Let's start by getting your slates. Tell us your name, who you are, what you do. Let's
2:00.1	start with Ben and then Jerry. Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben and Jerry's co-chair of the
2:07.3	campaign to end qualified immunity. I try to end qualified immunity and not eat too much
2:13.6	ice cream. I am Jerry Greenfield. I have the identical titles to Ben on the co-founder
2:20.6	of Ben and Jerry's and on the co-chair of the campaign to end qualified immunity. And
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