And Hobson’s longtime friend Howard Schultz also earned standing ovations from store managers. Schultz, the three-time CEO who grew Starbucks from a small chain into a coffee powerhouse, made a ...

Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz made a surprise appearance at the company's Leadership Experience in Las Vegas.

Schultz said he did a "cartwheel in my living room" when he heard Niccol's turnaround plan for the coffee chain.

The influential former chief says doubters of the coffee chain’s comeback plan will be proven wrong.

Starbucks’ new CEO Laxman Narasimhan has taken over the reins from interim CEO Howard Schultz, about two weeks sooner than planned. Narasimhan was named the company’s incoming CEO on October 1 ...

Howard Schultz, former chief executive officer of Starbucks, is retiring from the company's board of directors, the company announced Wednesday. Schultz, who has been with the company 41 years ...

Fifteen years ago, Howard Schultz reprised his role as Starbucks CEO, returning to the helm to help put the struggling company back on course. At the time, the coffee chain was flailing ...

Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has been a lifelong champion of the kind of sentimental urban progressivism that has helped to turn the public spaces of cities such as Portland and Philadelphia ...

It was a hearing for the history books: Billionaire Howard Schultz, the resolutely anti-union architect of Starbucks, faced Sen. Bernie Sanders, the outspoken champion of the union movement in ...

SEATTLE — Howard Schultz, the billionaire founder of Starbucks, stood alone beside the auditorium stage at the company’s global headquarters. The room was packed with 200 of his top executives ...

By Noam Scheiber Howard Schultz was the star witness, but the hearing revealed almost as much about the party in power as it did about the longtime Starbucks chief executive. When Mr. Schultz ...