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What you\u2019ll learn to do:\u00a0recognize the advantages and disadvantages of the various forms of business ownership relative to a business opportunity<\/h2>\r\nWho would have thought it? Two ex-hippies with strong interests in social activism would end up starting one of the best-known ice cream companies in the country\u2014Ben & Jerry's. Perhaps it was meant to be.\r\n

The Ice Cream Men<\/h2>\r\n[caption id=\"attachment_2540\" align=\"alignright\" width=\"300\"]\"Ben<\/a> What's Your Favorite Flavor?[\/caption]\r\n\r\nIt seems that Ben Cohen (the \"Ben\" of Ben & Jerry's) always had a fascination with ice cream. As a child, he made his own ice cream mixtures by smashing his favorite cookies and candies into his ice cream. But it wasn't until his senior year in high school that he became an official \"ice cream man,\" happily driving his truck through neighborhoods filled with kids eager to buy his ice cream pops. After high school, Ben tried college but it wasn't for him. He attended Colgate University for a year and a half before he dropped out to return to his real love: being an ice cream man. He tried college again\u2014this time at Skidmore, where he studied pottery and jewelry making\u2014but, in spite of his course selections, still didn't like it.\r\n\r\nIn the meantime, Jerry Greenfield (the \"Jerry\" of Ben & Jerry's) was following a similar path. He majored in premed at Oberlin College and hoped to become a doctor. But he had to give up on this goal when he was not accepted into medical school. On a positive note, though, his college education steered him into a more lucrative field: the world of ice cream making. He got his first peek at the ice cream industry when he worked as a scooper in the student cafeteria at Oberlin. So, fourteen years after they met, Ben and Jerry reunited and decided to go into ice cream making big-time. They moved to Burlington, Vermont\u2014a college town in need of an ice cream parlor\u2014and completed a $5 correspondence course from Penn State on making ice cream (they were practically broke at the time so they split the course). After getting an A in the course\u2014not surprising, given that the tests were open book\u2014they took the plunge: with their life savings of $8,000 (plus $4,000 of borrowed funds) they set up an ice cream scoop shop in a made-over gas station on a busy street corner in Burlington. The next big decision was which form of business ownership was best for them. This module\u00a0introduces you to their options.\r\n

LEARNING ACTIVITIES<\/h3>\r\nThe learning activities for this section include:\r\n