Time: 4:10 – 6:00 P.M. Room: B218 Assistant Professor: John R. Jenkins Office Telephone: 03-341-2500 (6114) Office Room Number: AT 38 Home Telephone: 03-531-8555 Fax: 03-531-1668 Email: john06@mail.knu.edu.tw Office Hours: Tuesday 10:00 -- 1:00 p.m. Wednesday: 11:00 -- 12:00 noon
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Case Study: The Home Depot Giving back to communities Prepared for: Interdepartmental Working Group on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Corporate Social Responsibility: Lessons Learned Final Home Depot Case Study 1 Corporate Overview Home Depot was founded in 1978‚ and has grown to become the world’s largest home improvement retailer and the second largest retail chain in the USA with total sales of $53.6 billion in 2001. The company employs a workforce of more than 250 000 “associates”
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1. Evaluate Home Depot’s business strategy. Do you think it is a viable strategy in the long run? There are three aspects of strategy can be analyzed‚ mainly industry analysis‚ competitive analysis and corporate analysis. Since Home Depot carries only one business‚ corporate strategy analysis is not relevant for this question. 2.1 Industry Analysis The Home Depot is the leader in the industry‚ but the market share is almost negligible (0.9%). However‚ it obtained 62% growth in 1985 which
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| | Home Depot’s Business Strategy Home Depot ’s target market is individual homeowners/small contractors. Even though the traditional ideology is that cost leadership and product differentiation business strategies are mutually exclusive‚ Home Depot was successful at using a combination strategy. First‚ Home Depot optimized the cost leadership strategy by offering low and competitive prices to its customers by emphasizing higher sales volumes with lower margins‚ while instituting a high
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What hypothesis do you think the product designer formulated before he began researching how consumers use buckets? Do you agree with his decision to use observation rather than another method of collecting primary data? Why? The case suggests that customers‚ especially women in particular found it difficult or awkward to lift‚ carry‚ and pour from conventional buckets when full of soil or other contents. The decision to observe consumers using buckets is a direct way to determine whether consumers
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Team Project #1 Home Depot‚ Inc. in the New Millennium (HBS 9-101-117) Question 1. Assess Home Depot’s financial performance from 1986 to 1999. What explains the decline in performance in 2000? (See Question #1 Exhibit) The slowing economy in 2000 combined with Home Depot’s aggressive expansion efforts was the reason for Home Depot’s poor financial performance. Between June 1999 and May 2000‚ the FED had raised interest rates six times – or a total of 1.75 percentage points – in an effort
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“The Home Depot is in the home improvement business and our goal is to provide the highest level of service‚ the broadest selection of products and the most competitive prices. We are a values-driven company.” The above sentence is the mission statement of The Home Depot. The mission statement itself reveals what kind of standard The Home Depot is looking for. The Home Depot Incorporation was established on 22nd June‚ 1978 by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank. Home Depot is the world’s biggest home improvement
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Home depot Case Study analysis 1) In the case of Home Depot‚ I feel the two values that seem more concurrent are Universalism and Benevolence. Through the very tough economic conditions Frank Blake remained very loyal to his staff‚ he took care of them during the market downfall by lowering sales and profit target that hourly employees were to meet to receive bonuses. This inspired workers to want to meet goals that were much more realistic‚ and had great rewards. This also generated a higher
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La diferencia entre una empresa que se maneja bajo un concepto y una que no‚ puede traducirse en la diferencia que marque que una empresa venda sus acciones en el equivalente de hasta 20 veces sus ganancias y una que lo haga 10 veces Home Depot; 27-28 veces 60‚000 – 80.000 pies de espacio en cada tienda Empresa fundada en 1978 por Bernard Marcus y Arthur Blank es ahora dominante en promociones y precios en su giro. Tuvieron la visión de adaptar la venta de almacén a la industria de artículos
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In Raymond Carver?s short story So Much Water So Close To Home it begins with Claire the narrator‚ describing her husband the main character of the story Stuart Kane. Claire is a very eloquent speaker and usually can?t agree with Stuart so she keeps to herself. Stuart and three of his friends Gordon Johnson‚ Mel Dorn‚ and Vern Williams had planned a fishing trip to the Naches River just like they usually do every spring. How ever the events that would happen on this trip would affect Stuart?s and
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