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For Starbucks execs, 'to go' may mean a hot corporate jet | Business ... » Mar 1, 2014 ...Starbucks CEO. Enlarge this photo. Bloomberg. A security guard stands at the entrance to a Gulfstream G650 business jet. Starbucks CEO Howard ...of the 3- year-old Washington Business Alliance (WaBA), he's working apart from older and bigger business lobbies to start a conversation about metrics and... Old.seattletimes.com

Can Starbucks Fix Racism With a Message on a Cup? - Eater » Mar 17, 2015 ...Starbucks hasn't always had such a positive relationship with race. While 40 percent of Starbucks' 200,000 employees may be "members of a racial minority," according to Fortune, the company has faced lawsuits in the past over discrimination. In 2009, Starbucks agreed to pay a former employee, who is... Eater.com

3 reasons it's hard to hate Starbucks » Jul 6, 2014 ...Five years ago, Seattle-based coffee chain Starbucks wasn't in a good place. ... Starbucks, in its efforts to be a responsible corporate citizen, is well on its way to completing most of those goals. One of the goals it set was to ethically source 100% of its coffee by 2015. In 2012, 93% of the coffee Starbucks... Usatoday.com

Starbucks plan to hire 10,000 refugees spurs calls for boycott | The ... » Jan 30, 2017 ...Seattle Times business reporter. The Starbucks plan to hire 10,000 refugees worldwide over the next five years is sparking calls for a boycott from some people who said the company should focus on hiring American workers. Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz outlined the plan Sunday in a... Seattletimes.com

An era ends for Starbucks and Howard Schultz | The Seattle Times » Mar 18, 2017 ...Howard Schultz, as visible a symbol of the coffee giant as the green-and-white mermaid, is stepping away from the CEO post after shaping Starbucks ...He's turning over to his successor a company on stable footing, with a digital strategy that has made Starbucks a leader among brick-and-mortar retailers. Seattletimes.com

Starbucks will hire 10,000 refugees, says Schultz in message on ... » Jan 29, 2017 ...Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz said Sunday the company plans to hire 10,000 refugees in its stores worldwide over the next five years, starting in the U.S., where stores will focus on hiring those who served as interpreters and support personnel for U.S. troops overseas. In a message to... Seattletimes.com

Tour of Starbucks Reserve Roastery - Business Insider » Jul 9, 2016 ...The Roastery opened in December 2014, and has been described by the company as the future of Starbucks. Currently, Starbucks is in the process of opening two more Roasteries, in New York City and Shanghai. In an effort to get a glimpse at the next era of Starbucks, Business Insider visited the... Businessinsider.com

Message from Howard Schultz: Living Our Values | Starbucks ... » Jan 29, 2017 ...There are more than 65 million citizens of the world recognized as refugees by the United Nations, and we are developing plans to hire 10,000 of them over five years in the 75 countries around the world where Starbucks does business. And we will start this effort here in the U.S. by making the initial focus... News.starbucks.com

Effort to start conversations across political divide uses Starbucks ... » Apr 6, 2017 ...After the presidential election, it became abundantly clear to Henry Tsai, an MBA student at Harvard Business School, that he and others lived in an echo chamber where they didn't hear from people with different political perspectives — or, when they did, they ended up fighting. Gosanangelo.com

Today's Front Page » LABOR OF LOVE | UW is part of a growing effort by schools, students and volunteers to bring back native languages, including ...Seattle Times business reporter. Rents are dropping significantly across the Seattle area for the ...last few years. The slowdown comes as the number of new apartments opening across the area. Seattletimes.com