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Howard D. Schultz (born July 19, 1953) [2] is an American businessman and author who was the chairman and chief executive officer of Starbucks from 1986 to 2000, from 2008 to 2017, and interim CEO from 2022 to 2023. Schultz owned the Seattle SuperSonics basketball team from 2001 to 2006. Schultz began working at Starbucks in 1982. [3]
Under Howard Schultz, Starbucks’ longtime leader, cafes were positioned as a “third place” between work and home, where people could linger for hours on plush purple armchairs, socialize and ...
[10] [11] In 2001, he led the rollout of Microsoft wireless internet in Starbucks stores, [12] [13] which is when he met and began working with Starbucks founder Howard Schultz. [13] In 2003, Johnson was appointed group vice president of Microsoft's worldwide sales, marketing and services group. [11]
Starbucks founder Howard Schultz told me he and his wife Sheri created the index “because we believe CEOs and corporate directors in every industry have tremendous power to create opportunity ...
A Starbucks at the Fulham Broadway tube station in London, England. Interior of the Pike Place Market location in 1977 Howard Schultz was chief executive from 1986 to 2000, and again from 2008 to 2017
Starbucks () as we know it today would not exist if it weren’t for the help of Bill Gates Sr., the father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates, according to executive chairman Howard Schultz.. In ...
Orin C. Smith (June 26, 1942 – March 1, 2018) was an American businessman who was president and chief executive officer (CEO) of Starbucks Corporation from 2000 to 2005. He joined Starbucks as vice president and chief financial officer in 1990, becoming president and chief operating officer in 1994, and a director of Starbucks in 1996.
By the time he retired (for the first time) in 2017, Schultz had grown Starbucks from 11 Seattle-area stores to more than 35,000 locations across the globe. “Starbucks, ...