A book about its strategies, innovations and leaders, about how it is coping with the downturn and planning for the future
Starbucks changed the way we understood coffee and built a $10 billion business in less than 40 years. A book about its strategies, innovations and leaders, about how it is coping with the downturn and planning for the future, is simply irresistible.
Though there is a virtual cottage industry on books about the company — led by Chairman & CEO Howard Schultz himself — perhaps there was room for one more. After all, the world’s second-greatest economic catastrophe has made it mandatory to revisit notions about business success.(This story appears in the 24 September, 2010 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)