Starbucks: What Went Wrong at The Top?StarbucksWhat are the odds of following a wildly successful founder, entrepreneur and maintaining either the street buzz or the meteoric rise? The law of big numbers was going to eventually catch up and you can’t fuel a fad forever. Shultz will weather the market...
It ain't supposed to work this way. Howard Shultz launched Starbucks Coffee and eventually brought in Jim Donald, first as head of the company's North American business and then in 2005 as president and chief executive, Donald's elevation to the CEO's job allowed Shultz to retreat from the frontlines to...
During the past 15 years, Nabisco Holdings has gone through takeovers, makeovers, name changes and ownership changes, as well as enduring barbarians at the gate. The No. 1 cookie and cracker maker in the United States, incorporated in 1898 as the During...
Anne Armstrong, who died on July 30 at age 80, was a longtime Republican leader and adviser to presidents from Richard Nixon to George H. W. Bush. She attained her greatest public prominence in 1976, when Gerald Ford named her ambassador to Great Britain. Though she served in that role...
MARIETTA, Ga., Aug. 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The Lockheed Martin C-5 Reliability Enhancement and Re-engining Program RERP flight test team has successfully completed developmental testing of all three C-5 RERP test aircraft. The testing included verification of performance and reliability enhancements to the propulsion system, utilities and subsystems, flight...
Communicating with the world of Islam. Ed. by A. Ross Johnson. Hoover Institution Press 2008 74 pages $10.00 Paperback Hoover Institution Press publication series HE8697 Chaired by Reagan-era Secretary of State George...
SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Community Bank System, Inc. (NYSE: CBU), through its Benefit Plans Administrative Services, Inc. subsidiary BPAS, has acquired the Philadelphia division of Alliance Benefit Group MidAtlantic from BenefitStreet, Inc. Alliance Benefit Group MidAtlantic provides retirement plan consulting, daily valuation administration, actuarial and ancillary support services....
A last-minute settlement Wednesday between the city of Seattle and its NBA team of 41 years paved the way for the former SuperSonics to move to Oklahoma City. Team owner and Oklahoma City business leader Clayton Bennett will pay the city of Seattle $45 million immediately,...
WASHINGTON -- James S. Brady Press Briefing Room 12:38 P.M. EDT MS. PERINO: Hello. One announcement for you. Tomorrow President Bush will deliver remarks at the Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives National Conference. During his speech he will highlight the Initiative's record...
Scott McClellan followed George W. Bush from Texas to Washington where he rose to become White House press secretary. Positioned to know the president well, he has issued some unflattering criticism of the man he still reveres. His just-published book, What Happened: Inside the Bush White House...
THE WORD ON THE WEB Cage the Elephant are a Kentucky-born, east London-dwelling, five- piece, old-school rock band. Brothers Matt and Brad Shultz grew up in a Christian hippie commune and getting their hands on rock'n'roll tapes was a covert operation. However they...
Births Stormont-Vail Jayson and Nicole Smith, Junction City, boy and girl, June 15. Shawn D. and Sara R. Fields, Topeka, girl, June 16. Maurice E. James and Janet T. Reed, Topeka, boy, June 16....
Births St. Francis Mr. and Mrs. Corey Shannon, Topeka, girl, June 13. Stormont-Vail Jonathan Batanaran Jr. v. Saasha R. Garvin, Topeka, girl, June 10. Anthony and Shanna Appelhanz, Topeka, boy, June...
LOS ANGELES -- Stephen Xavier today issued the following op-ed: Many high-level decision-makers have been celebrated by the press for recession-busting during this sluggish economy, while others stumble. H-P's Ann Livermore, for instance, gets top grades for keeping her eye on the big picture, and...
Attorneys for a group of Baltimore County residents Friday urged the Court of Appeals to block Loyola College in Maryland's construction of a religious retreat center in Parkton, saying county officials had failed to consider other sites for the facility that would not harm the area's...
DREAM COME TRUE FOR DIDDY'S EX-ASSISTANT: Last year Heather Joy Thompson, Esq. told JET that her "long-term goal" was to be a U.S. Foreign Service Officer after applying for the job in April 2006. This year, Thompson's dream became a reality after she was sworn-in by Deputy...
Businesses sometimes lose their way. This fact was driven home to me recently when I dined at a Chinese restaurant in New York City. The food was decent enough, but when I opened my fortune cookie, the message read: "Enjoyed the meal? Buy one to go, too."...
A FORTUNE COOKIE SALES PITCH PORTENDS DIRECTIONAL DRIFT. BY JOE QUEENAN Businesses sometimes lose their way. This fact was driven home to me recently when I dined at a Chinese restaurant in New York City. The food was decent enough, but when I opened my fortune...
By WorldNetDaily.com Jerusalem must be included in any negotiations between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, stressed Sen. Barack Obama's Middle East adviser Daniel Kurtzer. "It will be impossible to make progress on serious peace talks without...
STANFORD, Calif. -- How can the United States more effectively counter terrorism, promote democracy, and improve its image in predominantly Islamic countries and communities? In Communicating with the World of Islam (Hoover Press, 2008), a new publication edited by Hoover research fellow A. Ross Johnson, that features a report by...
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