It’s not the best of times for Kings. From Wall Street titans like Dick Fuld to Main Street titans like Howard Schultz the future looks difficult. Even the kings of the blogging world are beginning to whine. On the same day that Mike Arrington announced a vacation from blogging and blamed othe...

Filed under: Starbucks (SBUX), Employees Starbucks (NASDAQ:SBUX) is on the Fortune list of "100 Best Places To Work." It is extremely hard to imagine how that happened. It fired 12,000 people earlier this year and now it's is saying it may not match employee 401 (K) programs. According to USA Today,...

'Bean' there before A little over a year ago, Howard Schultz, then chairman of Starbucks wrote an internal memo lamenting the loss of Starbucks' distinctiveness and wondering whether in the mad rush to expand and grow ever more operationally efficient (as measured by speed and same-store sales incre...

Filed under: Management, Google (GOOG), Dell (DELL), Starbucks (SBUX), International Business Machines (IBM) Microsoft Corp. (NASDAQ: MSFT) co-founder Bill Gates is riding off into the sunset today, at least he sort of is. The man who made nerds and geeks "cool" is shifting his focus away from the w...

Filed under: Products and services, Starbucks (SBUX), Marketing and advertising, Scandals I almost can't believe that I'm writing about this, but I guess some prudes will get up in arms about anything. BBC News reports that a U.S. based Christian group known as The Resistance is calling for a nation...

Howard Schultz, the founder of Death Star coffee chain and religious icon Starbucks, built the company up from nothing with pure grit, energy, and a visionary outlook. Then he went too far, aiming to open 40-freaking-thousand stores (more than McDonald's), and the company's stock price cratered over...

It is time to stop speculating about brand equity and turn, instead, to the ice-cold empiricism of financial brand values. Monday saw the annual publication of the BrandZ Top 100 brands from Millward Brown Optimor and, as usual, there were a host of winners and losers. The first slice of good news w...

You can tell a lot about leadership by studying how leaders live their lives outside their work. Whether President of the United States or Starbucks or L&G Business Solutions, we can take the measure of a boss not only by evaluating their principles and how they lead at work, but perhaps more so...

Filed under: Products and services, Starbucks (SBUX) When Starbucks Corp. (NASDAQ: SBUX) brought back founder Howard Schultz to revitalize the company's image, product line and customer experience, the coffee chain's edge had disappeared. It had lost customers, revenue, the niche and most important ...

The launch of KidZui could be viewed as just another social network for kids hitting the market, or it could be seen as a victory of real-live people over the mighty algorithm. Time and the company’s success will eventually tell. Over the last two and a half years, KidZui has paid 200 parents ...