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    CSR 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

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    Home Depot Case Study Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank opened the first Home Depot in Atlanta‚ Georgia in 1979. They had big plans for the hardware and home improvement industry. Today‚ Home Depot is extremely successful with over 22 million customers shopping weekly and 66 billion in revenue‚ which makes them the largest home improvement retailer in the world. Home Depot employs over 300‚000 people and operates over 2200 stores in the US‚ Mexico‚ Puerto Rico‚ China‚ the Virgin Islands‚ Guam and

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    Home Depot’s Customer Service Case Study Home Depot is an American based retailer of home improvement and construction products. Home Depot also offers services to its consumers. With its headquarters in Cobb County‚ Georgia‚ the company employs more than three-hundred fifty five-thousand people and operates two-thousand one-hundred sixty-four big-box stores across the world including‚ all fifty states‚ the District of Columbia‚ Puerto Rico‚ the Virgin Islands‚ Guam‚ Canada‚ Mexico and China (wikipedia

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    Home Depot’s Bumpy Road to Equality Internet/Case Study Assignment: 1. If Home Depot was correct in that it was not discriminating‚ but simply filling positions consistent with those who applied for them (and very few women were applying for customer service positions)‚ given your reading of this chapter‚ was the firm guilty of discrimination? If so‚ under what theory? Yes‚ Home Depot was accountable of discrimination towards women due to their standards of hiring by reinforcing gender stereotyping;

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    Home Depot Case Study Fabian Gonzalez Great Basin College Line and staff relationships consist of two types of authorities that work hand in hand in order for a company to work in an efficient manner. Line authority deals with the ability to make decisions over production‚ sales‚ or finance‚ while staff authority deals with the assisting of those who have line authority‚ by helping with the performance expected by workers (Certo). In the Home Depot case‚ the

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    Case Study: The Home Depot Preface This Essentials of Strategic Management assignment has been made by three persons which have been working together and individually to finish the assignment properly and in time. Secondly‚ we would like to thank the company whose websites we were able to visit and use‚ to get additional information that we could use for leading the assignment of Home Depot to a successful ending. We can say‚ that it was a pleasure to work on this assignment and would‚ in the

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    | The Home Depot‚ Inc. | Suggested Growth Strategy | | Table of Contents Executive Summary……………………………………………………………………………….2 Strategic Audit Case Analysis………….........................................................................................4 Introduction 4 Past Corporate Performance 5 Financial Analysis - Ratios 5 Financial Analysis – Financial Statements 6 Financial Analysis – Industry/Competitor Comparison 7 Strategic Posture 8 Current Mission 8 Current Objectives 9 Current

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    Home Depot Questions for Case Discussion 1. Look at page 16 of the case (Selected Financial Data). Note that fiscal 1985 ends on February 2‚ 1986 (there is a typo on this page; the far left numbers column should be February 2‚ 1986 instead of February 2‚ 1985). Evaluate Home Depot ’s performance in the following areas: • Growth in Sales • Growth in Total Assets • Change in Net Income • Growth in Long-term Debt 2. Look at page 17 of the case (Management Discussion). Compare 1985 to 1983

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    1. On the basis of Home Depot’s response to environmentalist issues‚ describe the attributes (power‚ legitimacy‚ urgency) of this stakeholder. Using the Reactive Defensive-Accommodative-Proactive Scale in Chapter 2‚ assess the company’s strategy and performance with environmental and employee stakeholders. In 1990 Home Depot began to work off a basis of environmental principles. People in the community pushed for the company to become more eco-friendly. These principles help to guide a number of

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    9/15/12 Home Depot Learns Chinese Prefer ’Do‑It‑for‑Me’ ‑ WSJ.com Dow Jones Reprints: This copy is for your personal‚ non­commercial use only. To order presentation­ready copies for distribution to your colleagues‚ clients or customers‚ use the Order Reprints tool at the bottom of any article or visit www.djreprints.com See a sample reprint in PDF format. Order a reprint of this article now BUSINESS Updated September 14‚ 2012‚ 5:52 p.m. ET Home Depot Learns Chinese Prefer ’Do­It­for­Me’

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