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Help Rebuild John McDonogh High School in New Orleans

HuffPost | Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 11.20.2009 | Impact

Read More: New Orleans, City Year, Community Service, Msnbc, Morning Joe in New Orleans, Morning Joe, Mika Brzezinski Morning Joe, Handson Network, Katrina Relief, Public Service, Joe Scarborough, Morning Joe New Orleans 2009, Starbucks, Morning Joe New Orleans, Digger Phelps Joe Scarborough, Hurricane Katrina, Mika Brzezinski, Brewing Together, Impact News

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Starbucks CEO: McDonald's Coffee Made Us Better

nytimes.com | REUTERS | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Starbucks, McDonald's, Howard Schultz, Ernst and Young, Business News

Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Howard Schultz said McDonald's Corp's McCafe launch earlier this year made the cafe chain better....

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Brand Management in China: Three Golden Rules

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Simplicity in Advertising, Chinese Consumer, Status, Colgate, Face, Haagen-Daaz, Debeers, Price Premium, Haier, China, Chinese Brands, Confucianism, Sony, Bmw, Nike, Chinese Culture, Pizza Hut, Brand Management, Nestle, Starbucks, Brands in China, Rules of Marketing, P&G, Handycam, Tcl, Changhong, World News
Tom Doctoroff

The Chinese worldview, not to mention its brandscape, is profoundly different from Western markets. Here are a few "golden rules" marketers must know before landing in the mainland.

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Five Creative Relationship Management Tips to Make Someone Say, "Wow, I Want To Be Your Client"

Keith Ferrazzi | Posted 11.10.2009 | Living

Read More: Starbucks, Microtel, Zappos, Business Strategies, Living News
Keith Ferrazzi

You don't have to have a multimillion dollar company to go above and beyond with creative gifts or acts of kindness that tell clients -- or even employees, colleagues or friends -- that you're paying attention.

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New London Starbucks: Inside The Retailer's Posh Makeover (VIDEO)

Posted 11.10.2009 | Business

Read More: Starbucks, Coffee, London-United Kingdom, Business News

Starbucks has opened a new outlet in London, which departs from the ubiquitous interior familiar to customers around the world (hat tip to BrandRepubl...

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McDonald's on Ice

Jenny Darroch | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business

Read More: Innovation, McDonald's, International Marketing, Iceland, Starbucks, Marketing in a Recession, Burma, Business News
Jenny Darroch

McDonald's has pulled out of Iceland.The decision is a combination of rising costs and the inability to hike prices a further 20% to recoup losses.

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Starbuck's Pick Up & Why You Shouldn't

Danielle Cavallucci | Posted 10.23.2009 | Living

Read More: Relationships, Dating, Starbucks, Pickup, Boyfriend, Living News
Danielle Cavallucci

It would be nice if, prior to approaching a woman, you had at least some sort of exchange indicating that there was a connection beyond that physical reaction you just had to her rear view.

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All Hyped Up With Nowhere To Go

B. Jeffrey Madoff | Posted 10.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Energy Drinks, Depression, Twitter, Antidepressants, Social Networking, Bloggers, Starbucks, Media, Media News, Facebook, Texting, Media News
B. Jeffrey Madoff

We all run out of time, and there is not really a way to save it. But one of the major ways we seem to be trying to save time is in how we communicate with each other.

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Conscious Companies: 7 Business Initiatives For Good

Posted 10.21.2009 | Impact

Read More: The Gap, Slidepoll, Oprah Winfrey, Ronald Mcdonald's House Charities, David Arquette, The Global Fund, McDonald's, Starbucks, Feeding America, Target, Bono, Impact News

John D. Rockefeller Jr. said to "think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege." Several major international corporations are trying to follow that...

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Healing the Spirit/Matter Split

Arjuna Ardagh | Posted 10.15.2009 | Living

Read More: Negotiation, John Gray, Awakening, Balance of Life, Buddha, State of Consciousness, Contribution, Iphone, Success Built to Last, Jack Canfield, The Secret, Est, Werner Erhart, Giving, Starbucks, Stewart Emery, Greatness, Poonjaji, Living News
Arjuna Ardagh

The greatest area of split and misunderstanding, which I discover among my friends and other writers and teachers, is the split between the longing of the spirit and material desire.

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Carly Simon's Starbucks Lawsuit: Singer SUES Coffee Chain Label

AP | STEPHANIE CLIFFORD | Posted 10.12.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Carly Simon Suing Starbucks, Starbucks, Carly Simon, Music, Entertainment News

SEATTLE — Singer Carly Simon is suing Starbucks Corp., saying the coffee company's now-defunct music venture didn't adequately promote her 2008 ...

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Irving Penn, Twitter, and the Everydayness of Life

Adam Hanft | Posted 10.08.2009 | Style

Read More: Irving Penn, Charles Dickens, New York Times, Twitter, Metropolitan Museum, Andy Grundberg, Mark Twain, Starbucks, Raymond Carver, Style News
Adam Hanft

Twitphobes complain, "Do I really care if so-and-so picked up the kids or had to wait too long for a latte at Starbucks?" Maybe we do. Maybe we should. Maybe we can.

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It's the Sustainability, Stupid

David Becker | Posted 10.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Starbucks, Sustainability, Walmart, Wal-Mart Sustainability, Corporate Responsibility, Green News
David Becker

Consumer trust in business has dropped dramatically in the last two years. A transitory marketing campaign and TV media buy is not going to win back consumers. What can work is a long-term focus on sustainability.

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Starschmucks Folly: VIA, the Instant New Coke

Warren Holstein | Posted 09.30.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Crystal Meth, Coffee, True Blood, Via, Instant Coffee, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, Glenn Beck, Dunkin' Donuts, Starbucks Instant Coffee, The Inner Life, Starbucks via Review, Comedy News
Warren Holstein

We don't care if this isn't our grandfather's instant coffee, it reminds us of our grandfather (who was last spotted hollering about health care at a town hall meeting due to a combination of dementia and Glenn Beck).

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Why Press 5 for Customer Service When You Can Twitter?

Karthika Muthukumaraswamy | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media

Read More: Web 2.0, Social Media, Twitter, Social Networking, Social Media Marketing, Customer Assistance, Customer Service, Starbucks, Comcast, Zappos, Media News
Karthika Muthukumaraswamy

Social media portals are changing the ways in which companies are doing business, thanks to one-on-one interactions between consumers and employees.

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New Study Shows that Children Who Play Educational Video Games Wrongly Believe 'Education Leads to Success'

Ben Berkon | Posted 09.25.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Violence, Comedy, Video Games, Comedy News, Teachers, Third-Party Candidate, Starbucks, Ben Berkon, Education, Comedy News
Ben Berkon

"There was an astonishingly high percentage of misinformed children who are in for a real surprise," said STAThead executive Bill Myers.

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Team Earth Campaign Brings Together Harrison Ford, the President of Guyana, CEOs, and a Life-Size Origami Forest

ThienVinh Nguyen | Posted 09.24.2009 | Green

Read More: President Jagdeo, Walmart, Slideshow, Johnson & Johnson, Green News, Harrison Ford, Conservation, Green Living, Origami, Greenwashing, Starbucks, Sustainability, Guyana, Un, Deforestation, Copenhagen, Harrahs, Team Earth, Conservation International, Green News
ThienVinh Nguyen

As a "global sustainability movement" that'll include just about everyone - from educators to scientists to businesses to non-profits and little kids - Team Earth's first campaign centers on tackling deforestation.

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Who Knew? Fall '09 Winner Is the Gap

Michael Cohen | Posted 09.23.2009 | Style

Read More: Barney's, The Gap, Donny Deutsch, Banana Republic, Bravo TV, President Obama, Starbuck's, Designer Jeans, Madison Avenue, Adidas, Prada, Helmut Lang, Miami Social, Style News
Michael Cohen

I slipped on the Gap's Easy Fit jeans. I looked like a straight guy who might be heading to Applebee's for dinner. Not so much. It got worse with the Standard Jean. I looked like President Obama.

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"Get Your Creative On" (A Friendly Suggestion)

Richard Laermer | Posted 11.18.2009 | Business

Read More: Theo-Van-Gogh, Good Branding, Creativity, Lucid Incorporated, Businesses, Bad Branding, Design, Starbucks, Business News
Richard Laermer

In many firms creativity is seen to be an add-on rather than a must-have and is treated with Rodney Dangerfield levels of respect.

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Starbucks Kicks Off Cup-Recycling Pilot Program In NYC

greenbiz.com | GreenerDesign Staff | Posted 11.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Starbucks Recycling Cups, Recycling, Starbucks, Green News

NEW YORK CITY, NY - Starbucks launched a pilot program in seven New York stores last week that could help the company move toward its goal of making a...

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Mandatory Coverage Removes Small Business Owner's Competitive Advantage

Grant Cardone | Posted 11.11.2009 | Business

Read More: Starbucks-Health-Care, Health Insurance, Starbucks, Small Business, Mandatory-Health-Insurance, Grant Cardone, Business News
Grant Cardone

Taking away the choice of business owners to provide health insurance or not removes from entrepreneurs a competitive advantage and involves government in businesses unnecessarily.

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Starbucks Is Pulling Back In The US, But It's Growing In Central Europe

GlobalPost | Posted 11.11.2009 | World

Read More: Starbucks Explosion, Prague Coffee, Coffee Chain, Turkish Coffee, Czech Coffee, Starbucks, Starbucks Growing in Europe, Starbucks Europe, Prague, Seattle, Europe, Coffee, Czech Republic, World News

PRAGUE, Czech Republic - In a country where people are used to drinking their unfiltered Turkish coffees in small ceramic cups, Starbucks first 18 mon...

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New York City Continues to Turn Into Cleveland; News from the Center for an Urban Future

Adam Hanft | Posted 09.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Center for Urban Future, Cleveland, Mayor Bloomberg, Subway, New York City Rent, New York City, Starbucks, Dunkin Donuts, Wall Street, New York News
Adam Hanft

Despite the "sour economic climate" in New York City, what's happened is that "dozens of chain stores actually have expanded their footprint in the five boroughs over the past year."

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Starbucks Raises Prices Of "Complex" Drinks, Cuts Costs Of Latte, Regular Coffee

AP | Posted 09.20.2009 | Business

Read More: Starbucks Coffee, Starbucks Prices, Frappuccino, Starbucks, Business News

SEATTLE — Starbucks Corp. is raising prices on certain harder-to-make beverages – and cutting the costs for simpler ones like a plain cup ...

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Reinvention is the New Black

Tevis Gale | Posted 09.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Reinvention, Economic Recovery, Survival Tips, Brian Billings, Beth Schoenfeldt, Kathlin Argiro, Small Business, Belief Systems, Madonna, Quitting, Firing, Radioshack, Life-Goals, Work From Home, Moral Values, Reinvent, General Motors, Starbucks, More Magazine, Debt-to-Equity, Goals, Living News
Tevis Gale

If either your bank account or your emotional reserves are bleeding red, reinvention just might get you back to a positive balance.

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