Giving People Purpose

On Louis Shapiro’s third day as the president and CEO of the celebrated Hospital

Just Ask Chuck

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Elevating the Bottom Line: Howard Schultz of Starbucks

Howard Schultz wasn’t an expert on coffeehouses when in 1980 he first became enamored with a small coffee bean retailer in Seattle’s Pike Market. During a buying trip to Italy a year after he joined Starbucks as its director of retail operations and marketing in 1982, Schultz was struck by the “romance of the coffee […]

Hilfiger: An American Brand

Tommy Jacob Hilfiger stitched his initials into the American fabric with confident strokes and colored thread by following a determined mantra: Never give up. That credo is especially important in fashion design—part of American pop culture’s roller-coaster ride, as Hilfiger calls it. The second of nine children born to working-class parents, Hilfiger jumped aboard the […]