--- ---  # Read Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz's Commencement Address at Arizona State University by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 10, 2017 3:07 PM UTC  Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz speaks at the annual meeting of shareholders in Seattle, Washington on March 22, 2017. Starbucks Chairman and CEO Howard Schultz speaks at the annual meeting of shareholders in Seattle, Washington on March 22, 2017.Jason Redmond—AFP/Getty Images by [TIME Staff](https://time.com/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff May 10, 2017 3:07 PM UTC [_Starbucks_](http://fortune.com/fortune500/starbucks-146/) _executive chairman_ [_Howard Schultz_](http://fortune.com/2017/05/09/howard-schultz-starbucks-arizona-state-commencement-speech/)_, the company’s former CEO, delivered the_ [_commencement address_](https://vimeo.com/216709188) _at Arizona State University on Monday._ --- > “” --- Howard Schultz at Arizona State: Read Commencement Speech ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4773797/howard-schultz-commencement-address-arizona-state/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4773797/howard-schultz-commencement-address-arizona-state/"},"headline":"Read Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz's Commencement Address at Arizona State University","datePublished":"2017-05-10T15:07:11.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-23T04:50:42.551Z","description":"\"Summon your compassion, your curiosity, your empathy towards others\"","url":"https://time.com/4773797/howard-schultz-commencement-address-arizona-state/","keywords":["Education","College","Commencement","graduation","transcript","transcripts","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c79249ecb35a1e3/6988ccb8ab6d773ec26ae0af/howard-schultz-commencement-address-asu.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c79249ecb35a1e3/6988ccb8ab6d773ec26ae0af/howard-schultz-commencement-address-asu.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-ECONOMY-STARBUCKS-enterprises","caption":"US-ECONOMY-STARBUCKS-enterprises","creditText":"Jason Redmond—AFP/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/education/","name":"Education"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4773797/howard-schultz-commencement-address-arizona-state/","name":"Read Former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz's Commencement Address at Arizona State University"}}]}] ```