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{{Infobox Celebrity| name = Howard Schultz| image = Howard-Shultz-Starbucks.jpg| caption = Howard Schultz in Vancouver on March 1st, 2007| imagesize = 200px| birth_date = | birth_place =
Brooklyn, New York,
New York, United States| occupation =
Chairperson, Starbucks 4,798,745 Howard Schultz Profile. Forbes.com. Accessed 2/28/07.| networth = $1.1 Billion| spouse = Sheri Kersch Schultz| website = Starbucks| footnotes =| children = 2-->
Howard Schultz (b. [July 19,
1952) is an
United States businessman and
entrepreneur most widely known as the Chairman and Chief Global Strategist franchisebusiness.com. URL last accessed August 16, 2007. of Starbucks and a former owner of Seattle SuperSonics which he sold to Oklahoma businessman Clayton Bennett. Howard Schultz co-founded Maveron, his investment group, in 1998 with
Dan Levitan.
Schultz grew up in a subsidized public housing project (Bay View Houses) in the Canarsie, Brooklyn section of Brooklyn, New York. He attended Canarsie High School and is the eldest of three children. He has a sister, Ronnie (b. 1956) and a brother Michael (b. 1961), both of who live in New York. His mother lives in
New Jersey and his father, of whom he often speaks in his interviews, is deceased. He currently lives in
Seattle Madison Park, Seattle, Washington with his wife and their two children, Jordan and Addison.
In 1975, he became the first of his family to graduate from college when he earned his bachelor's degree in communication from Northern Michigan University, which he attended on a football scholarship. He is a member of
Tau Kappa Epsilon.
In 1982, he joined Seattle's Starbucks which sold only coffee beans at the time. Inspired by Italy espresso bars, he resolved to create a similar experience in the United States. Having been rebuffed by Starbucks management at the time, Schultz responded by leaving to start his own company,
Il Giornale (disambiguation) in 1985. Two years later the original Starbucks management decided to work on
Peet's Coffee & Tea and sold its Starbucks unit to Schultz and Il Giornale.
Schultz renamed Il Giornale with the Starbucks name and aggressively expanded Starbucks' reach across the United States. It can be said that Starbucks popularized espresso drinks such as the cafe latte to many Americans who had previously only ever tasted
freeze dried coffee.
Schultz co-authored a book called
Pour Your Heart into It that expounds on his life journey with Starbucks.
Schultz is also the former owner of the
NBA's Seattle Supersonics. On
July 17,
2006, it was announced that Schultz sold the team to a group of businessmen from
Oklahoma City for $350 million. It is speculated that the new owners will move the team to
Oklahoma City some time after the 2006-2007 NBA season seattletimes.nwsource.com. URL last accessed July 18, 2006.. This sale was seen by many as very disappointing as Schultz had often claimed that he wished to save basketball in Seattle. He also owned the WNBA's Seattle Storm, and is a significant stakeholder in
Jamba Juice.
In 2006, Forbes Magazine ranked Schultz as the 354th richest person in the
United States, with a net worth of $1.1 Lists of billionaires dollars.
On March 29, 2007, Schultz accepted the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Award for Ethics in Business at the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. The same night, he delivered the Frank Cahill Lecture in Business Ethics.
References
Howard Schultz on Persistence and Winning with SuccessTelevision.com
{{Infobox Celebrity| name = Howard Schultz| image = Howard-Shultz-Starbucks.jpg| caption = Howard Schultz in Vancouver on March 1st, 2007| imagesize = 200px| birth_date = | birth_place = Brooklyn, New York, New York,
United States| occupation =
Chairperson, Starbucks 4,798,745 Howard Schultz Profile. Forbes.com. Accessed 2/28/07.| networth = $1.1 Billion| spouse = Sheri Kersch Schultz| website = Starbucks| footnotes =| children = 2-->
Howard Schultz (b. [July 19,
1952) is an
United States businessman and entrepreneur most widely known as the
Chairman and
Chief Global Strategist franchisebusiness.com. URL last accessed August 16, 2007. of Starbucks and a former owner of Seattle SuperSonics which he sold to Oklahoma businessman Clayton Bennett. Howard Schultz co-founded Maveron, his investment group, in 1998 with
Dan Levitan.
Schultz grew up in a subsidized public housing project (Bay View Houses) in the Canarsie, Brooklyn section of
Brooklyn, New York. He attended Canarsie High School and is the eldest of three children. He has a sister, Ronnie (b. 1956) and a brother Michael (b. 1961), both of who live in New York. His mother lives in New Jersey and his father, of whom he often speaks in his interviews, is deceased. He currently lives in Seattle Madison Park, Seattle, Washington with his wife and their two children, Jordan and Addison.
In 1975, he became the first of his family to graduate from college when he earned his
bachelor's degree in communication from
Northern Michigan University, which he attended on a football scholarship. He is a member of
Tau Kappa Epsilon.
In 1982, he joined Seattle's Starbucks which sold only coffee beans at the time. Inspired by Italy
espresso bars, he resolved to create a similar experience in the United States. Having been rebuffed by Starbucks management at the time, Schultz responded by leaving to start his own company,
Il Giornale (disambiguation) in 1985. Two years later the original Starbucks management decided to work on Peet's Coffee & Tea and sold its Starbucks unit to Schultz and Il Giornale.
Schultz renamed Il Giornale with the Starbucks name and aggressively expanded Starbucks' reach across the United States. It can be said that Starbucks popularized espresso drinks such as the
cafe latte to many Americans who had previously only ever tasted freeze dried coffee.
Schultz co-authored a book called
Pour Your Heart into It that expounds on his life journey with Starbucks.
Schultz is also the former owner of the
NBA's
Seattle Supersonics. On July 17,
2006, it was announced that Schultz sold the team to a group of businessmen from Oklahoma City for $350 million. It is speculated that the new owners will move the team to
Oklahoma City some time after the 2006-2007 NBA season seattletimes.nwsource.com. URL last accessed July 18, 2006.. This sale was seen by many as very disappointing as Schultz had often claimed that he wished to save basketball in Seattle. He also owned the WNBA's
Seattle Storm, and is a significant stakeholder in
Jamba Juice.
In 2006,
Forbes Magazine ranked Schultz as the 354th richest person in the
United States, with a net worth of $1.1
Lists of billionaires dollars.
On March 29, 2007, Schultz accepted the Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, C.S.C., Award for Ethics in Business at the Mendoza College of Business at the University of Notre Dame. The same night, he delivered the Frank Cahill Lecture in Business Ethics.
References
Howard Schultz on Persistence and Winning with SuccessTelevision.com
