January 24, 2019 | GPB: On Second Thought Before disruption, grit and brand building were buzzwords, those concepts drove rare, original thinkers like Michael J. Coles. Coles and his partner turned a small investment and a cookie shop at Perimeter…
January 16, 2019 | St. Pete Catalyst Serial entrepreneur Michael Coles isn’t a mathematician, but he has developed a mathematical formula that he says leads to business success. Product, environment and service are the three parts of the formula that…
November 29, 2018| Atlanta Small Business Network If you’re an entrepreneur who has ever fallen on tough times, then you need to hear what our next guest has to say about overcoming hardship and reaching the pinnacles of success. On…
October 30, 2018 | Atlanta Jewish Times If you want to be successful in business, then read “Time to Get Tough,” by Michael J. Coles and Catherine M. Lewis. It details Coles’ very varied business career. He did not go…
October 19, 2018 | Marietta Daily Journal The namesake of Kennesaw State University’s Michael J. Coles College of Business plans to be on campus several times this year after being named the college’s Executive in Residence for this school year.…
September 2018 | Publisher's Weekly Michael Coles, co-founder of Great American Cookies and former executive at Caribou Coffee, shares life lessons learned the hard way in this winning chronicle. He begins by movingly recounting how, as a young boy, he…
August, 2018 | University of Georgia Press Michael J. Coles, the co-founder of the Great American Cookie Company and the former CEO of Caribou Coffee, did not follow a conventional path into business. He does not have an Ivy League pedigree…
August 29, 2018 | Neighbor News Michael J. Coles has made it a habit to not only defy the odds against him, but also to turn obstacles into opportunities, near-fatal tragedies into triumphs and poverty into philanthropic success. The historic…
