Rachel Gonzalez joined GE Vernova in April 2023, a year before the energy business spun out the industrial conglomerate as a stand-alone public company.

Former CEO Howard Schultz transformed Starbucks from its humble roots to a coffee powerhouse by creating what he liked to describe as a unique “third place,” the place between work and home where ...

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CEO Brian Niccol explains the company’s pivot back to its roots.

At the time of the 2018 incident, Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz said he didn't want people to feel "less than" if they were refused access. "We don't want to become a public bathroom ...

At the time, Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz said he didn’t want people to feel “less than” if they were refused access. “We don’t want to become a public bathroom, but we’re going ...

At the time, Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz said he didn’t want people to feel “less than” if they were refused access. “We don’t want to become a public bathroom, but we’re going ...

“We don’t want to become a public bathroom, but we’re going to make the right decision a hundred percent of the time and give people the key,” Howard Schultz, the then chairman at Starbuck ...

“Starbucks spaces are for use by our partners ... It marks a reversal from a policy instituted in 2018 by then-Chairman Howard Schultz, after an incident that sparked a national controversy.