CEO Howard Schultz

The most underappreciated CEO in America today is Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz. Starbucks is ubiquitous in the U.S. today -- especially in New York where you can find a store on nearly every street corner. Yet its success still seems to be understated. Schultz became CEO in 1987 and oversaw Starbucks' massive first wave of growth -- including taking the company public -- until he "retired" in 2000 to become chairman and "chief global...  

(Reuters) - Groupon Inc appointed two new directors on Monday and said Starbucks Corp Chief Executive Howard Schultz and venture capitalist Kevin Efrusy were leaving the board as the company tries to address criticism of its accounting practices.  

May 10 (Bloomberg) -- Howard Schultz, chief executive officer of Starbucks Corp., talks about the company's growth in China. Schultz also discusses Starbucks's U.S. performance, business strategy and relationship with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters Inc. He speaks with Adam Johnson on Bloomberg Television's "Street Smart." (Source: Bloomberg)  

Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz said today in an interview on CNBC that he has confidence in both Groupon’s board and CEO Andrew Mason, even after stepping down from the board after 19 months. Last month, Kara Swisher reported that ...  

Groupon's stock continued its implosion yesterday, as two high-profile board members quit the board. Howard Schultz of Starbucks and Kevin Efrusy of investor Accel Partners bolted. Groupon replaced them with financial types from American Express and Deloitte. Although the moves were spun as "adding financial experts to the board," the real story is the departure of Schultz, who, at best, feels he has better things to do. (At worst, he's...  

Also, the team was never on the market; the moment Schultz decided to sell the team, David Stern orchestrated the sale to his BFF Clay Bennett without any chance for a local owner to get involved. The romance bloomed when Bennett was a minority owner of the Spurs, and would have bought the team and moved them to OKC if a stadium deal didn't get passed. Stern all but guaranteed him the next ownership vacancy, knowing full well he wanted to move...  

Kara Swisher / AllThingsD: Confirmed: Schultz and Efrusy to Leave Groupon Board; “Accounting Types” Joining  —  According to sources close to the situation, Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz and Accel Partners' Kevin Efrusy will be stepping down from the board of Groupon.  —  Schultz's departure will be effective today …  

May 1 (Bloomberg) -- Starbucks Corp. Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz talks about the company's business strategy, growth outlook for China and India, and coffee prices. Starbucks, based in Seattle, plans to triple outlets to more than 1,500 by 2015 in China as part of the company’s plan to grow outside the U.S. and win more coffee drinkers in the world’s most-populous nation. Schultz also discusses his company's efforts to help...  

On April 17th, former Chinese President and death-defying octogenarian Jiang Zemin was seen scuffling into a Beijing office. On his heels for this rare face-to-face meeting was, strangely enough, slicked-back CEO cutout and Starbucks head-honcho Howard Schultz. [ more › ]  

In that year, roughly, Starbucks switched from using paper Tazo tea bags with finely ground tea leaves to silk tea bags and full-leaf tea. The logic of that decision was that the new tea bags brewed tea better than the old ones. But what you gained in ...  

These are the single-serve cups you put into Keurig coffee machines. "We strongly believe that as we garner additional supply, and continue to execute against our channel rollout plan, we will build a second billion-dollar business within our ...  

Starbucks' (Nasdaq: SBUX) CEO Howard Schultz, a partner of Green Mountain, may be crunching the numbers as we speak. Schultz would love to dominate the single-serve market like it has the retail coffee market. Even though it's coming to the market with its ...  

University of Colorado graduate Howard Schultz is a founding father of reality television ... The assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. It scarred us as a generation. 3. What preparation have you ...  

I get up at 4:30 every morning to walk my three dogs and work out. Around 5:45 a.m. I make coffee for myself and my wife, using an 8-cup Bodum French press. This is the absolute best way to make coffee at home. Brewing coffee traditionally does ...  

London, April 17 : Howard Schultz, the chairman and CEO of Starbucks, has revealed that the best way to make a cup of coffee is to use a Bodum French press - a coffee presser brand. Schultz says the coffee presser results in 'the best cup of coffee known to mankind.'