Moving toward a relative ratings system is not a silver bullet, but it may be a useful incremental step toward smaller, less damaging credit cycles in the future.

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Mr Schultz, who earlier this year returned to the helm of the company he built into a global giant, deserves credit for trying to return Starbucks to its old approach to innovation, which was all about incremental product variation around a central platform.

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