{"id":2010,"date":"2019-08-30T08:04:29","date_gmt":"2019-08-30T12:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2019-08-28T16:16:51","modified_gmt":"2019-08-28T20:16:51","slug":"insight-albert-kittell-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2019\/08\/30\/insight-albert-kittell-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Insight: Albert Kittell &#8217;20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: As part of Orientation Week, the Class of 2020 visited iconic, mission-driven companies here in Vermont for conversations about sustainability, innovation, and Business 2.0 with executives. We asked Albert Kittell &#8217;20 about his take-away from a visit to Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s headquarters.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2019\/08\/SIMBA-Albert_K-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2011\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2019\/08\/SIMBA-Albert_K-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2019\/08\/SIMBA-Albert_K-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2019\/08\/SIMBA-Albert_K-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Albert Kittell &#8217;20<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;After visiting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjerry.com\">Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s<\/a> South Burlington offices it became very clear to me, a native Burlingtonian, that the scope of the company\u2019s influence was much greater than I realized. Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s, since middle of the 1980s, have put in place innovative and lasting initiatives that often were the first, or among the first, in the world.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benjerry.com\/values\">These included \u201cShared Prosperity,\u201d social, and economic equality, and environmental issues<\/a>. If an ice cream company can do all of that, then any business headed by similar type thinkers can help strike change in industry.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EDITOR&#8217;S NOTE: As part of Orientation Week, the Class of 2020 visited iconic, mission-driven companies here in Vermont for conversations about sustainability, innovation, and Business 2.0 with executives. We asked Albert Kittell &#8217;20 about his take-away from a visit to Ben &amp; Jerry&#8217;s headquarters. &#8220;After visiting Ben &amp; Jerry\u2019s South Burlington offices it became very &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2019\/08\/30\/insight-albert-kittell-20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Insight: Albert Kittell &#8217;20&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4489,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[163314,26210,38462,26,426992,427011],"tags":[41478,4433],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-about-us","category-class","category-interviews","category-learning","category-life-in-btv","category-social-mission","tag-innovation","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-wq","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4489"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2012,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions\/2012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}