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...ministers are also staying hidden and not answering their telephones. Riot police have been deployed on the streets of the capital, Harare. There have been no clashes so far, but the limbo in Zimbabwe leaves residents there, and observers abroad, anxious about how it will end. With reporting by Howard Chua-Eoan/New York
...what customers really want? Are most people looking for an experience, the "third place" community feel that Schultz likes to talk about, or do most of them just want a good cup of joe, pronto? "Howard is a brilliant visionary and a genuinely compassionate human being, but he runs the danger of being trapped by his past," says Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, a professor at the Yale School of Management who has extensively studied CEOs. "Entrepreneurs sometimes don't grow with the business. You shouldn't pretend the model can't keep evolving." Schultz is fond of saying that the current energy...
...assistant professor of finance at Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business who has studied the return of founder CEOs. "A founder may come in, and because he started the company, people more readily accept these things," says Fahlenbrach. That's clearly what's happening at Starbucks. "Howard, frankly, is the only person who could do what we needed to do," says global strategy head Gass. That courage was on full display on Feb. 26, when Starbucks closed all 7,100 of its company-owned U.S. stores (4,000 licensed locations remained open) for three hours to retrain...
...coffee bars will change the way people will perceive the beverage," he wrote 22 years ago. "It's an adventure and we're in it together." He signed it the same way he signs the company-wide memos he's taken to writing since coming back as CEO: "Onward, Howard." Starbucks turned out to be a beautiful adventure. Will it be a single or a double...
...recent weeks Democratic leader Howard Dean has called McCain a "situation ethicist" who "runs on his integrity, but he doesn't seem to have any." Obama has alleged that McCain puts lobbyists "in charge of his campaign," even though the Democratic candidates are also advised by current and former influence brokers. The Democratic National Committee regularly blasts out statements tagging McCain with ominous phrases like special-interest cronyism...