In this adaptation from his new book, Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't (Broadway Books), author Kevin Maney explains the tension between two key qualities and how a great brand got caught in a no-man's-land between them.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has been hyping a major announcement for weeks, hinting only that it would involve "innovation, competition, and value."
Starbucks Corp. said Wednesday its fiscal first-quarter profit and sales fell short of Wall Street's forecast. The high-end coffee chain also announced 6,700 new job cuts as a weak economy weighed on sales.
Kudos to Credit Suisse. Drowning in red ink, the Swiss bank announced it would pay bonuses to senior investment bankers not with cash but with mortgage-backed securities, high-yield bonds, and other forms of the untradeable junk now clogging the world's banking system.
There's a reason ESPN named John Wooden "coach of the century." The former UCLA men's basketball coach led his team to a record ten NCAA men's championships, a tenure that opened the door to a second career as an authority on leadership - and, now, to the creation of an award at UCLA's Anderson School of Management in his name. Fortune's Andy Serwer was on hand when the coach, 97, presented the inaugural John Wooden Global Leadership Award to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, 55 (who at presstime announced plans to close hundreds of stores) - and talked with the heavy-hitters about what makes a great leader.
Shares of Starbucks Corp. jumped 4% in after-hours trading after the high-end coffee chain forecast relief down the road from its current slump.
Starbucks has fallen on hard times lately. The company is closing stores, laying off thousands of workers and struggling to convince consumers during these uncertain economic times that its pricey lattes and frappuccinos are worth it.
Starbucks Corp., which already plans to shut 600 stores, said Tuesday it is also cutting almost 1,000 non-store jobs as part of its bid to re-energize the brand and boost its profit
The closing of 600 stores ends the coffee behemoth's boom era. But shutting its laggard outlets may pay off yet
Coffeehouse chain Starbucks reported a 28% drop in fiscal second-quarter earnings Wednesday, saying charges resulting from CEO Howard Schultz's ongoing plan to transform the business hurt profits.
In this adaptation from his new book, Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On, and Others Don't (Broadway Books), author Kevin Maney explains the tension between two key qualities and how a great brand got caught in a no-man's-land between them.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has been hyping a major announcement for weeks, hinting only that it would involve "innovation, competition, and value."
Starbucks Corp. said Wednesday its fiscal first-quarter profit and sales fell short of Wall Street's forecast. The high-end coffee chain also announced 6,700 new job cuts as a weak economy weighed on sales.
Kudos to Credit Suisse. Drowning in red ink, the Swiss bank announced it would pay bonuses to senior investment bankers not with cash but with mortgage-backed securities, high-yield bonds, and other forms of the untradeable junk now clogging the world's banking system.
There's a reason ESPN named John Wooden "coach of the century." The former UCLA men's basketball coach led his team to a record ten NCAA men's championships, a tenure that opened the door to a second career as an authority on leadership - and, now, to the creation of an award at UCLA's Anderson School of Management in his name. Fortune's Andy Serwer was on hand when the coach, 97, presented the inaugural John Wooden Global Leadership Award to Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz, 55 (who at presstime announced plans to close hundreds of stores) - and talked with the heavy-hitters about what makes a great leader.
Shares of Starbucks Corp. jumped 4% in after-hours trading after the high-end coffee chain forecast relief down the road from its current slump.
Starbucks has fallen on hard times lately. The company is closing stores, laying off thousands of workers and struggling to convince consumers during these uncertain economic times that its pricey lattes and frappuccinos are worth it.
Starbucks Corp., which already plans to shut 600 stores, said Tuesday it is also cutting almost 1,000 non-store jobs as part of its bid to re-energize the brand and boost its profit
The closing of 600 stores ends the coffee behemoth's boom era. But shutting its laggard outlets may pay off yet
Coffeehouse chain Starbucks reported a 28% drop in fiscal second-quarter earnings Wednesday, saying charges resulting from CEO Howard Schultz's ongoing plan to transform the business hurt profits.
Loyal customers get free extras, freshly ground coffee brewing in-house, fancy new espresso machines and more on the Starbucks revitalizing docket
Warning to Starbucks junkies who usually get a fix on their way home from work: You're out of luck on Tuesday.
Starbucks ratcheted down the number of new stores it plans to open this year and said it would close some U.S. locations as it reported a 2% rise in fiscal first-quarter earnings Wednesday.
Before Howard Schultz agreed to come back to become CEO of Starbucks, the company he built from a Seattle boutique into a global mega brand, he had to get his kids' blessing. After all if Dad was going back to the grind (so to speak), he would be working 15-hour days. And while Mrs. Schultz didn't hesitate, not surprisingly the younger Schultzes needed some convincing. In the end Dad prevailed and in early January, Schultz reassumed the mantle. Since then the CEO redux has kept a low profile, but recently agreed to speak exclusively to Fortune Managing Editor Andy Serwer.
Howard Schultz joined Starbucks in 1982. While on a business trip in Italy, he visited Milan's famous espresso bars -- impressed with their popularity and culture, he saw their potential in Seattle.
One of the most recognizable brands in the world. And the man who made it happen -- Howard Schultz. He took over Starbucks in 1987 with a vision of bringing Italian coffeehouse culture to the U.S. -- The Starbuck Experince, he called it.
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Red-hot frozen yogurt chain Pinkberry has received a $27.5 million infusion of cash from Starbucks founder Howard Schultz's venture capital firm, Fortune has learned.
NEW ISSUE OF FORTUNE: You know what? This generation of twenty-somethings really is different. You know why? Because they are the first generation raised by baby boomers - what we call helicopter parents (you know, always hovering!) This generation of kids has been coddled and tutored and loved too much since they was babies. All right so how do they (maybe YOU!) fit into the workplace? Someone's going to have to change. Guess who? That's Rii-ight! Their parents/bosses. The baby-boomers. This is the cool cover story written by Nadira Hira in your latest issue of Fortune. Oh, one other thing: it's a great read too!
Coffee chain Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz told shareholders Wednesday that he was disappointed with the company's sluggish stock performance and that he wasn't embarrassed about what he wrote in the "leaked" memo.
Being shunned by former boss Jack Welch was what made one executive realize he was "adrift." Another up-and-comer quit a blue-chip job to sell coffee brewers. Careers gone off course? Hardly: Those two now run Fortune 500 companies: Amgen and Starbucks. What's more, such circuitous career paths are the norm, according to a new book by former Medtronic CEO Bill George. In talks with 125 business leaders, George found that most endured some daunting career twists and turns. Those who prevailed found an "orienting point" to help guide their decisions.
We asked the brightest minds in business how they do what they do � and how you can cash in on their advice in the year ahead.
If you think there's already a Starbucks on every corner, chairman Howard Schultz has news for you: He's just warming up. In October the head of the world's largest coffee-shop chain said he plans ...
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Real estate prices might be falling in some areas - but that's for physical real estate. Virtual real estate, in the form of Internet domain names - the part after the "www" in a website's address - is on a tear and showing no signs of slowing down.
Asking venture capitalists for great startup ideas is a little like asking Curt Schilling what pitch he's going to throw next. When we posed the question to dozens of VCs and investors around the country, more than a few indignantly shot back, "Are you out of your mind?"
Rwanda's coffee industry can't keep up with demand - and that's where you come in.
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A revolt of top talent is brewing across corporate America, say dozens of top executives, consultants and researchers, suggesting that it's time to reenergize the stale "work-life" debate -- by starting at the top.
Gregg Slager saw the clock nearing midnight, sighed, and reached for the next file. All along the 25th floor of Ernst & Young's headquarters at 5 Times Square, lights were ablaze. It was another 80...
Gourmet coffee chain Starbucks Corp. expects sales growth will be "more than acceptable" without new price hikes as long-term supply contracts keep it insulated from rising coffee bean prices, Chairman Howard Schultz said on Monday.
You certainly can't blame the Klebeck brothers for thinking that they must be doing something right.
You certainly can't blame the Klebeck brothers for thinking that they must be doing something right. After all, the doughnut entrepreneurs recently managed to get their caloric confections carried ...
Taking charge of an iconic company is a grande--no, make that a venti--challenge for the new CEO of Starbucks, Jim Donald. After a career in the supermarket trade (starting at 16 as a bagger), he j...
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Starbucks plans to raise prices for the first time in four years, a newspaper report confirmed Thursday, hoping that loyal customers already willing to pay more than $3 for a tall latte will stick around.
Investors were rushing to cash their shares of Starbucks Corp. after Wednesday's close. The company earlier said same-store sales rose only 8 percent in August, the first time in nine months that the trendy retailer's growth fell below double digits.
Want to know the secret to Starbucks's retail success? It's not the coffee. According to Howard Schultz, the key is this: The customers always come second--the employees matter more. It's certainly...
Walt Disney Co. may see its name back in the news Thursday after an independent advisor recommended that shareholders vote against reelecting Chief Executive Michael Eisner and two directors.
I'm in Seattle, talking with the father of the richest man in the world, who is speaking eloquently about a remarkably successful younger man who lives right here in his hometown. Yes, the speaker ...
So far, it's been a neat trick: parlaying cups of super-strong coffee into a $4 billion retail empire. Isn't it time for Starbucks to hit the wall?
By the close of business today, more than 3 million caffeine-craving Americans will have made some kind of purchase at a Starbucks cafe, in every state except South Dakota. The most dedicated java-...
James M. Citrin, 43, has made a career of finding extraordinary executives. A high-profile headhunter for over a decade, he has placed CEOs at companies ranging from Yahoo to Eastman Kodak. For a n...
Howard Schultz is blushing. Having just heard that Starbucks, the coffee empire he built, is making its debut on the FORTUNE 500 list this year, the normally unflappable Schultz grins, his eyes dar...
The last time Wal-Mart announced a stock split, in April 1999, Warren Buffett decided to buy 100 million shares of the retail giant. But after accumulating five million shares, then trading at abou...
Running a business can be an insane gamble, given the odds of failure. But it doesn't have to be that way--not if you discover your company's X factor. That's what allowed ventures such as Starbuck...
Fred Smith brushed aside the C he received on the college economics paper in which he outlined his idea for an overnight delivery service. His gut told him it would work anyway. (Besides, the Feder...
If you've been to a Starbucks lately (and 15 million of you went last week), you may be surprised that just two short years ago Chairman Howard Schultz declared that the coffee merchant was going t...
You feel a certain magic the minute you walk in the door. Nestled into college towns and chichi shopping streets, a chain of tea bars celebrates in classic dark woods and copper accents the refined...
Last year, Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz generally befuddled investors with promises of an Internet strategy for the coffee retailer and uber-lifestyle brand.
On the face of it, no business executive worth his country club membership should give money to Bill Bradley. The former New Jersey Senator is the most liberal candidate in the presidential contest...
Buy. Sell. Or hold. If you're a Wall Street analyst, those are the three legs of your stock-recommendation stool. Of course, we all know it doesn't really work that way. Almost every stock, from Ju...
It's hard to say just where Starbucks went wrong on June 30. After the end of trading, it announced that it would be sinking millions into a goony-sounding Internet-based retailing venture that wou...
What do Jim Robinson, one of the notorious Barbarians at the Gate, Howard Schultz, the king of coffee, Frank Biondi, the longtime entertainment honcho, and Texas computer tycoon Michael Dell have i...
At home, in an antique mahogany desk where Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz often works in the hours before dawn, a bundle of clippings is piling up. Although the charismatic Schultz gets his shar...
As Americans, we have grown up thinking of coffee primarily as a hot, tan liquid dispensed from fairly automatic appliances, then "doctored" as needed to make it drinkable. We open the three-pound ...
Every half decade or so, Corporate America rediscovers a concept so astoundingly fundamental that it's a wonder anyone forgot it in the first place. Companies that were recently pronouncing themsel...
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FRANCOIS CURIEL, 40 CHRISTIE'S Testing his reputation for getting top dollar, Curiel puts a newly cut 407.48- carat diamond, the second largest in the world, on the auction block in October. Curiel...
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