Starbucks Corporate Social Responsibility By: Allisen Brennan September 2012 Table of Contents Non Discriminatory Hiring‚ Promotion‚ & Retention Practices 3 Accessibility 3 Environmental Issues 3 Recycling 3 Green Stores 4 Energy & Water Consumption 4 Customer Relationships 4 Community Service & Investments 4 Youth Action 5 Supplier Relationships 5 Farmer Support 5 Coffee and Tea Growing Communities 5 Non Discriminatory Hiring‚ Promotion
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STARBUCKS IN 2009 1 TABLE OF CONTENT Starbucks issues and causes…………………………………………...….……………….2 Starbucks current strategies and evaluation…………………………..…….……………..4 Analysis and recommendations………………………………………………………….10 SOAR analysis……………………………………………………..………………..10 Competitive analysis…………………………………………………………….......11 Value chain analysis…………………………………………………………………14 Recommendations……………………………………….………………..…………17 Appendix………………………………………………………........................................18 References……………………………
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Starbucks Case Study 1. Starbucks serves what many would consider a basic commodity-- coffee. As a commodity‚ traditional management wisdom would dictate that vendor selection would be based upon price; the vendor with the lowest price typically earns the business. How did Howard Schwartz transform Starbucks from a shop that "specialized in selling whole arabica beans to a niche market of coffee purists" into an "upscale cultural phenomenon" (p. 2)? Be certain to identify Starbucks ’ ’service
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LEGAL PROCESS OUTSOURCING Why outsource? The legal industry across the globe is gradually turning towards outsourcing for gaining efficiencies and staying profitable in a highly competitive marketplace. Recognition of the fact that legal companies need to focus on their core competencies and leave back office processes to the hands of competent outsourcers is creating a compelling case for outsourcing out non-core processes. A further rationale for the outsourcing is to facilitate at the same
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is more than often they focus on outsourcing and off-shoring of U.S. jobs. My motivation as a possible future job seeker in IT or retail is analyzing the prevailing topic of outsourcing and off-shoring manufacturing jobs from the U.S. and to answer‚ the possibility of retrieving and keeping jobs in the U.S. to decrease the number of those unemployed in retail and IT. In Omid Nodoushani’s and Joseph McKnight’s article‚ “Insourcing Strategy: A Response to Outsourcing and Off-Shoring on the United States”
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1. What factors accounted for Starbucks’ extraordinary success in the early 1990’s? What was so compelling about the Starbucks’ value proposition? What brand image did Starbucks develop during this period? Is the value proposition still valid in 2002? The extraordinary success Starbucks experienced during the early 1990s resulted from Howard Schultz’s passion and vision to create a coffee culture in the United States similar to the coffee culture he experienced while traveling to Italy. Schultz’s
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Starbuck’s Starbuck were founded by three people in 1971.In 1982‚ Howard Schultz joined starbucks. He was the director of retail operations and marketing. Howard also brought back coffee-bars from Milan‚ Italy. The first downtown Seattle coffeehouse that served the famous cafe latte‚ however introduced the chirstmas blend in 1985. By this time they expended through the United State and expended 17000 stores in 55 country. It is one of the third largest chain restaurant in the United States. They
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Case 1-1 Starbucks – Going Global Fast Sept. 23‚ 2012 Question#1 - Identify the controllable and uncontrollable elements that Starbucks has encountered in entering global markets. The controllable elements of marketing decisions for Starbucks include product‚ price‚ promotions‚ distribution and research. The uncontrollable elements of marketing decisions facing Starbucks include competition‚ politics‚ laws‚ consumer behaviors and level of technology. (Philip Cateora‚ 2010) Starbucks is one
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external‚ customers. Moreover‚ Starbucks uses the bean stock to improve their operations through many decades. In the year 1991‚ Starbucks was the first U.S. privately owned coffee company in the history to offer stock options called “bean stock”. The current CEO of Starbucks is Howard Schultz‚ he replaced Jim Donald to turn Starbucks around from struggling in the coffee world and he is now currently focusing on the Internet projects for the company‚ also managing Starbucks with the stock-option called
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1 Application of Strategy Dynamics: Starbucks Corporation Pascal Gambardella‚ Ph.D. CSC 12708 Chilton Circle Silver Spring MD‚ 20904 301-346-5398 pgambard@csc.com Strategy Dynamics (Warren‚ 2008) provides a quantitative‚ resource-based approach to understanding a firm’s performance over time. This
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