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Starbucks CEO Took Home Big Pay Check Last Year

AP | By SARAH SKIDMORE | Posted 01.28.2012

PORTLAND, Ore. -- Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz was given a pay package worth roughly $16 million in the company's 2011 fiscal year. Starbucks perform...

Starbucks Steams Ahead Into The Juice Business

Posted 01.10.2012

Coffee giant Starbucks Corp announced Thursday that it acquired juice company Evolution Fresh for $30 million. The java chain will take another ste...

Creating Jobs, One Latte at a Time

Judith Samuelson | Posted 12.24.2011

Judith Samuelson

Starbucks is sticking to its knitting, using point of purchase and marketing genius to do some good in the world. If the plan works, we might see more jobs created and more lattes sold.

Starbucks CEO To Host National Forum To Address America's 'Crisis Of Confidence'

AP | SARAH SKIDMORE | Posted 11.02.2011

PORTLAND, Ore. — Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz changed how America drinks coffee. Now, he wants to change the political system. The leader of th...

Alex Wagner

Starbucks Howard Schultz CEO Pledge: Will It Work?

HuffingtonPost.com | Alex Wagner | Posted 10.19.2011

To be successful in a bid to starve Washington of dollars, Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz will likely have to expand his campaign to boycott campaign co...

WATCH: Starbucks CEO Discusses His Boycott On Campaign Contributions

Posted 10.16.2011

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz spoke to CNN Money on Tuesday about what he hopes to accomplish with his recently announced boycott on political contribu...

Starbucks CEO Cancels Megachurch Speech, Pastor Denies Anti-Gay Stance

AP | Posted 10.11.2011

RACHEL ZOLL, Associated Press NEW YORK — Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz cancelled an appearance at one of the most prominent megachurches in the co...

Starbucks' New Expansion Motto: 'Go Fast And Go Hard'

Posted 10.02.2011

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has laid out a plan to “go hard and go fast” after growth opportunities, reports Nation's Restaurant News. The compan...

Federal Coach: Summer Reading Suggestions for Federal Leaders

Tom Fox | Posted 08.31.2011

Tom Fox

What leadership books are at the top of your summer reading list? Here are my five.

Starbucks CEO Offers Advice to LA’s Entrepreneurs: 'You Can't Be A Bystander'

The Huffington Post | Nicole Larson | Posted 06.07.2011

On Tuesday evening, members of the Entrepreneurs' Organization's LA chapter gathered to honor Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz with the Entrepreneur of th...

Why I Appreciate Starbucks

Tony Schwartz | Posted 06.06.2011

Tony Schwartz

What makes Starbucks' Howard Schultz a different kind of leader is his recognition that any company today must see itself as part of a larger community, serving a universe of stakeholders far beyond its immediate shareholders.

Rags To Riches: 10 Self-Made CEOs Who Started With Nothing (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Sherry Shen | Posted 05.25.2011

Sure, it might be highly discouraging to watch the successful progeny of dynastic wealth -- think the scions of the Houses of Trump, Hilton and Newhou...

What Were They Thinking?

Alec Baldwin | Posted 05.25.2011

Alec Baldwin

Do you think Steve Jobs might have gotten sick because of the frustration he feels from having launched one of the greatest product lines in human history, just to fumble by choosing the worst wireless service in the US as his iPhone carrier?

Yes Business Can

Howard Schultz | Posted 05.25.2011

Howard Schultz

In tough times like these, many believe that investments in people and training can wait; that corporate social responsibility can be put on the back burner. I believe passionately that this is precisely what American business leaders should not be doing today.

"That's Bulls**t!" Starbucks CEO Says To Company's Doubters

Wall Street Journal | Janet Adamy | Posted 05.25.2011

For two decades, Howard Schultz enjoyed uninterrupted success building Starbucks Corp. into a hip chain of coffee shops that richly rewarded sharehold...