October 2013
Beginner
416 pages
14h 7m
English
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CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Starbucks: Can a Model of Growth Reinvent Itself?
Howard Schultz was a dreamer. He saw a great marketing opportunity with a most prosaic product, and he ran with it—despite all the skeptics and naysayers—to lead a venture to become the largest purveyor of coffee in the world, and to lead a fantastic journey for investors. Along the way his firm became a model of enlightened employee relations, enhanced employee benefits, and corporate social responsibility.
Starbucks went public in June 1992 at $17 a share. On the first day of trading, it closed at $21.50. If you had invested $10,000 then, your investment eventually would be worth some $650,000. While many firms offer options to key executives and technicians (as we saw in the Google case), Howard Schultz made them, as well as health benefits, available to everyone working for as few as twenty hours a week, even including those standing behind the counter at local stores. And these stores could be close, even across the street or down the block from each other.
Alas, by 2008 as an economic downturn hit the country, Starbucks's fortunes worsened and its charmed growth path became rocky.
HOWARD SCHULTZ
Howard Schultz rose from humble beginnings in Brooklyn. He was a quarterback at Canarsie High, a school so poor it didn't even have a football field. Northern Michigan University offered him a football scholarship and he was out of Brooklyn at last. Unable to make the team, Schultz resorted to bartending and selling ...
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