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Ben & Jerry's executive 'war for wokeness' - should modern leaders be woke?
  • Ben & Jerry's CEO Matthew McCarthy this week spoke out about leaders' responsibility to ethics, and confirmed that for the company, no subject was 'off the table'.

  • Yet Alan Jope, CEO of parent company Unilever, was quick to distance himself and the company from the comments, stating 'we're not woke'. 

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