then-CEO Jim Donald countermanded it an hour later.

时，时任首席执行官吉姆•唐纳德却在一小时后撤掉了这道指令。

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When analysts at Bear Stearns, an investment bank, downgraded the firm's shares on January 2nd, they plunged by another 12%. This sealed the fate of Jim Donald, the chief executive since 2005.

投资银行贝尔史登的分析员在1月2号那天降低了该公司的股值时, 股价又迅速下跌了12%.星巴克糟糕的业绩也注定了自2005年上任的首席执行官Jim Donald的命运.1月7日, 星巴克宣布由2000年起担任董事长的霍华得• 舒尔茨接替Jim Donald首席执行官之职.

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Typical Jim Donald stories involve him getting behind a deli counter for a day or working a third shift in a warehouse to buck up his employees.

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Jim Donald made his name in the slow-growth supermarket business.

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At Starbucks Mr Schultz replaced Jim Donald, and promptly changed the firm's strategy but the rapid expansion that got Starbucks into trouble was Mr Schultz's strategy as much as Mr Donald's, says Jeff Sonnenfeld of the Yale School of Management.

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