Personality Profile: Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield Yogurt
MGT/360: Green and Sustainable Enterprise Management
University of Phoenix

Personality Profile: Gary Hirshberg of Stonyfield Yogurt Individuals’ personality can influence their decisions in the firms. In this paper I will describe Gary Hirshberg of Stonefield Yogurt’s personality traits, management style, and leadership qualities that helped him lead the company to a successful implementation of new practices. I will describe how Gary instilled a culture of sustainability at his company and describe general management strategies that business leaders can use to increase sustainability in their fields. Successful business leaders are always innovative that they try to implement specific business strategies that can help their business operations to produce higher quality goods and ways to preserve the earth for present and many future generations.
Personality traits Hirshberg is a chief executive officer and his green social mission is front and focus at the firm with environmental messages printed on the yogurt containers’ covers every year. Stonyfield Farm contributes 10% net to fund returns for the earth, initiatives that would assist to preserve the planet. Hershberg is active and he admitted that the social-venture movement’s decreased within the previous years. Hirshberg stated that was an outcome of the reaction that hit his associates Ben Cohen and Anita Roddick. Hirshberg stated that to hinder an expose on his organization, Hirshberg is fascistic about observing the pledges the organization creates about its goods and business practices. Hershberg continued to say that by his nature, he is always been very careful (Hofman, 2001, p. 1).
Management Style The firm manages to overcome challenges by operating its business properly. The firm provides its customers higher