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    Company Background: The Home Depot‚ Inc. (NYSE: HD) Home Depot was founded in 1978 by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank. These founders envisioned providing one-stop shopping for the “do-it-yourselfer‚” and this vision became a reality after working with investment banker Ken Lagone and merchandising expert‚ Pat Farrah. The first two stores were opened on June 22‚ 1979‚ in Atlanta‚ GA. These first stores were approximately 60‚000 square feet in size each‚ and stocked 25‚000 products‚ which made

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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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    framework of generic strategies (overall cost leadership‚ differentiation‚ focus) ➢ Describe each of the strategies ➢ Provide examples of firms that have successfully attained as a means of outperforming competitors in their industry ➢ Address how these strategies help a firm develop a favourable position vis-à-vis the five forces ➢ Pitfalls managers must avoid if to pursue successfully these generic strategies ➢ Conditions under which firms may effectively combine generic strategies to outperform

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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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    1. In my opinion‚ Nardelli’s programs were failed in changing operation of Home Depot to a more effective one. There are two reasons that Nardelli was not more successful. First‚ most employees did not want to an outsider to “GE-ize their company and culture.” Employees in Home Depot did not trust their new manager‚ which led absent support when Nardelli carried out the new process. The second reason was also the more important reason. Nardelli used the concept learned from industrial businesses

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    Home Depot Environmental Analysis Home Depot Environmental Analysis An organizations external environment consists of three interrelated sets of factors that play a principal role in determining the opportunities‚ threats‚ and constraints that the company will face. The first factor is the remote environment that comprises of factors originating beyond any organizations operating situation such as economic and technological factors. The second factor is industry environment. This more directly

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    Home Depot Student Name Course Date Instructor Name Home Depot Home Depot opened its first home improvement store in Atlanta Georgia in 1978. The company developed a tactical product analysis providing an assortment of products and services to customers. The products Home Depot offers focus on contractors and the do-it-yourself customers‚ as well as free how to clinics and workshops for children allowing them to build an item onsite in the store. Home Depot has grown into an internationally

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    Home Depot / Lowe ’s Financial Analysis 1 Running head: THE HOME LEADER -VS- IMPROVING HOME IMPROVEMENTS The Home Leader -vs- Improving Home Improvements James J. Elliott Capella University Douglas Smith‚ PhD Accounting and Finance in Organizations Home Depot / Lowe ’s Financial Analysis 2 Abstract An industry of competition‚ and tight margins The Home Depot‚ and Lowe ’s Company are still at it. Both of these companies stand now as the industry standard for the home improvement sector. 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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    Centralization and Decentralization at Home Depot Christopher Navage MGT 302-1 Modern Organizational Theory Colorado State University – Global Campus Dr. Bonnie Adams August 6‚ 2010 Centralization and Decentralization at Home Depot It is interesting to note how the Home Depot’s combination of centralizing and standardizing authority and methodology‚ coupled with the definitely decentralized concept of giving managers authority to make important business decisions locally has resulted

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