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CHAPTER 1 An Overview of Financial Management SOURCE: Courtesy BEN & JERRY’S HOMEMADE, INC. www.benjerry.com STRIKING THE RIGHT BALANCE $ BEN & JERRY'S F or many companies, the decision would have been an easy “yes.” However, Ben & Jerry’s Homemade Inc. has always taken pride in doing things make money. For example, in a recent article in Fortune magazine, Alex Taylor III commented that, “Operating a business is tough enough. Once you add social goals to the demands of serving
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Section 1 Organizational Culture: set of artifacts, values and assumption that emerge from the interaction of organizational members Open social system operating a dynamic environment. CRITERIA to identify something as culture: 1. Deeply felt or held 2. Commonly intelligible 1. Accessible to a cultural group Organization = Ordered and purposeful interaction among people. Purposeful, because its members produce (supero-rdinative) goal-directed activities. Organizational communication
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production and sales levels, businesses adopted a sales oriented philosophy. This philosophy held that "if you do enough advertising, promotional activities, and direct selling, you can convince the market to buy all of your output." Initially, companies capitalized on the emergence of the radio as an advertising vehicle and the employment of large sales forces to reach prospective customers in new markets. In the 1940s, the introduction of television enabled them to expand sales efforts even
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