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Leadership - Tough decisions to turn Starbucks around
Here is a gem of an interview with Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks. In this short (3 minute) clip he discusses the difficult decisions he had to make about the business when he returned as CEO, including closing stores and making staff redundant. One of the success stories of the 1990s, Starbucks had grown too big and lacked clear focus. Excellent material to generate discussion on leadership, management, motivation, marketing, strategy, retrenchment and more.
For example, to encourage them to develop and/or improve their skills of application, analysis and evaluation, this clip could also be used as background to role plays (students play role of CEO or affected employees), presentations (to affected stakeholders) or creative tasks (draft a press release or record/storyboard a promotional video explaining the need for action and the future direction of Starbucks).
BUSS4 in 6 Concepts/Theories: Analysing your Research Organisations [6 Jun 2013]
BUSS4 in 3 words: What do they say about Leadership, Values and Culture? [6 Jun 2013]
Is my boss a psychopath?! [20 May 2013]
Co Op Bank’s USP vanishing trick [10 May 2013]
Strategy: Kazou Hirai and the Forgone Bonuses [1 May 2013]
BUSS4 - Want Good Analysis? Think How & Why? [29 Apr 2013]
Strategy: Kazou Hirai’s First Year as CEO of Sony [22 Apr 2013]
Internet firm opens up ‘google’ style office [11 Apr 2013]
Changes in culture and leadership at Yahoo spells trouble for teleworkers [1 Mar 2013]
Huawei - are three CEOs better than one? [19 Feb 2013]
Analysing the present to understand the future [11 Feb 2013]
Organisational Change: How Can the Banks Change their Culture? [11 Feb 2013]
Findus hurdles to uncertainty [8 Feb 2013]
Is New Leadership Making a Difference at Yahoo? [7 Feb 2013]
Organisational Culture under Examination in the NHS [7 Feb 2013]
Virgin Mary crisps withdrawn by Pret. [2 Feb 2013]
Van Houten abandons the CD [31 Jan 2013]
Kinaesthetic Motivation - On Sale Now! [27 Jan 2013]
Do businesses have a responsibility beyond profit? [26 Jan 2013]
BUSS4: New CEO - New Strategy [22 Jan 2013]
Planet Money [22 Jan 2013]
Changing the Organisational Culture - Clean Up or Clear Off! [19 Jan 2013]
Quarter miler with fries please [16 Jan 2013]
BUSS3 A* Evaluation - Strategy is Choice – Where to Play and How to Win [11 Jan 2013]
Retrenchment Strategy - Are Things Looking Better for Nokia and Stephen Elop [10 Jan 2013]
Leadership - To be Exceptionally Effective, a Leader Needs CASE [10 Jan 2013]
Jessops goes into Administration Is the Niche Market a Tomb? [9 Jan 2013]
Revision Presentation - Marketing Objectives [26 Dec 2012]
Hard HRM v Soft HRM - Mark’s Tough Approach is Bad News for Joe [16 Dec 2012]
Revision Quiz - Marketing Objectives [7 Dec 2012]
Ansoff and Tesco - What Went Wrong with Fresh and Easy? [6 Dec 2012]
Leadership - Insights into the Role of the CEO from BBC CEO Guru [23 Nov 2012]
Ratings Agency sinks Sony to Junk Status. [23 Nov 2012]
Hardly Profitable HP Computers. [22 Nov 2012]
Overvalued, poor due diligence or deliberately misleading accounts [20 Nov 2012]
More Retrenchment as Panasonic Tries to Stem the Losses [15 Nov 2012]
Leadership Styles - Lead Like a Swan [11 Nov 2012]
Insights into the Leadership Style of SAF [9 Nov 2012]
Sit Down Herzberg!!!! [25 Oct 2012]
What makes a good manager? Good employees! [10 Oct 2012]
Crash and burn BAE EADS merger collapses [10 Oct 2012]
Maslows Sunday Roast [10 Oct 2012]
ResearchBuster: Retrenchment [26 Sep 2012]
Culture & Long-term Business Success - Keeping It in the Family Japanese Style [19 Sep 2012]
Revision Quiz - Leadership Styles [13 Sep 2012]
More Evidence of Retrenchment as Cost Cutting Bites [11 Sep 2012]
Leadership: Barclays Opts for the Internal Option for New CEO [2 Sep 2012]
The Ideas Exchange [30 Aug 2012]
Retrenchment - Lexmark Exits the Inkjet Printer Market [29 Aug 2012]
Revision Quiz - Communication Methods [28 Aug 2012]
Revision Quiz - Communication Basics [28 Aug 2012]
Motivation at Work - What Makes Employees Go the “Extra Mile”? [24 Aug 2012]
Communication problems - the £30 million mistake! [24 Aug 2012]
Another good reason to work at Google - Pay when you Die! [10 Aug 2012]
Leadership and Change: CEOs have less time to Succeed [10 Aug 2012]
Forget the Share Price - Focus on Customers! Says Yahoo’s new CEO [10 Aug 2012]
The buck stops here or here or here. [3 Jul 2012]
Retrenchment in the Public Sector [18 Jun 2012]
The Psychology of Mergers [18 Jun 2012]
ResearchBuster: New Leaders and Strategic Change [18 Jun 2012]
Sony - Can Hirai Turn the Business Around? [16 Jun 2012]
Retrenchment in Greece - Carrefour sells out for one euro [16 Jun 2012]
Revision Presentation - Impact On and Reaction Of Stakeholders to Takeovers and Mergers [15 Jun 2012]
More Retrenchment at Nokia (June 2012) [14 Jun 2012]
Nokia and Strategic Change - the Essential A2 Business Case [14 Jun 2012]
Evaluating the importance of leadership on business performance [13 Jun 2012]
Motivation, Culture and Productivity - the Google Way [29 May 2012]
Creating a motivational workplace [28 May 2012]
BUSS4 - a clash of culture and a failed takeover [25 May 2012]
Rising to the top of the milk [22 May 2012]
Revision Presentation - Marketing Mix: Introduction to Promotion [17 May 2012]
Revision Presentation - Training [17 May 2012]
Takeovers and Mergers - one that went badly wrong (BMW and Rover) [10 May 2012]
Shareholders join the Pressure Groups as Banks Feel the Heat from Stakeholders [27 Apr 2012]
Paul Polman (Unilever CEO) on cultural change, leadership, Asia and Corporate Social Responsibility [27 Apr 2012]
Vodafone and Cable and Wireless Worldwide [25 Apr 2012]
Flaws in Tesco’s strategy [25 Apr 2012]
It’s all going wrong for Nokia - big losses in Q1 (2012) [20 Apr 2012]
Irene Rosenfeld on Leadership, Transformation, and THAT takeover [18 Apr 2012]
Sony - Hirai’s Turnaround Strategy - in Video Clips [13 Apr 2012]
Life and leadership at BA after Willie Walsh [12 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Mission, Aims, Objectives and Stakeholders [7 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Leadership [5 Apr 2012]
Revision Presentation - Retrenchment [4 Apr 2012]
The Downsides of Downsizing - Does Retrenchment Work? [4 Apr 2012]
Women & Leadership [22 Mar 2012]
Retrenchment: Short-Term Pain for Long-Term Gain? [19 Mar 2012]
Business legislation, Sunday trading, stakeholders and the Olympics [18 Mar 2012]
Two Lesson Videos on Nokia - Will their Strategy Work? [13 Mar 2012]
Sony - All Change at the Top with a new CEO [12 Mar 2012]
Apple’s new CEO and a new iPad - A Change in Leadership [9 Mar 2012]
Takeover and merger integration: lessons from the experts (GE Capital) [9 Mar 2012]
VW targets growth markets [26 Feb 2012]
Barriers to entry for business expansion to Brazil [23 Feb 2012]
The 3Ds of management [18 Feb 2012]
BUSS4 - Bullet point 5 the impact on stakeholders [17 Feb 2012]
The Strategic Challenges Facing International Airlines Group - Interview with Willie Walsh [14 Feb 2012]
The Leadership Style of Willie Walsh - In Quotes [14 Feb 2012]
Ideas not Hierarchy Makes a Business - Steve Jobs on Teamwork & Culture [13 Feb 2012]
Innovation in Business - Perspectives from Stephen Elop (CEO of Nokia) [12 Feb 2012]
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