Executive Summary Submitted By: Usman Riaz Industry & Company Description Home Depot is a home improvement and construction company. It has its headquarters located in Georgia‚ Atlanta. Founded in 1978‚ Home Depot is the largest home improvement retailer in the United States with 2248 stores. This includes 1976 stores in US and the rest in Canada‚ Mexico‚ China‚ UK‚ Argentina and Chile. Home Depot serves three primary customer groups; do-it-yourself (D-I-Y)‚ do-it-for-me (D-I-F-M)
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way that Nardelli laid out his plan for change was one of the reasons I think it was so successful. He came in and addressed the problems that were easy to point out and also the ones that weren’t apparent to other employees. Nardelli needed to rebuild an organization that could easily compete with other big names‚ and this was relatively easy because the people at Home Depot knew the importance of taking advantage of its growing size. Nardelli did this by implementing a three strategy plan that
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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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|Renovating Home Depot | |By Brian Grow‚ with Diane Brady in New York and Michael Arndt | | | |Adapted from Business Week‚ March 2006
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Set up in the late 1970s‚ Home Depot grew rapidly over the 1980s and early 1990s‚ adding stores at the average annual rate of 20 percent. In the late 1990s‚ the company’s comparable store growth rate began declining. It was also experiencing operational difficulties due to its tardiness in developing systems to manage its rapid growth. In this situation‚ the board decided to bring new leadership to the company that can focus on new technologies‚ build efficiencies and reallocate resources while keeping
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Home Depot was founded in 1978 by Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank in Atlanta‚ Georgia. With their store‚ Marcus and Blank revolutionized the do-it-yourself home improvement market in the United States. Home Depot began as a very basic store‚ operated in a large‚ no-frills warehouse. Home Depot carries over 35‚000 products‚ with national brand names along with the Home Depot brand. At the start‚ Home Depot was able to offer exceptional customer service with knowledgeable employees who could guide
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Function at Home Depot‚ Inc. Abstract This paper discusses the role of human resources at Home Depot‚ Inc. According to Grossman (2008)‚ the organization had to lower costs‚ increase customer service ratings‚ and revitalize the culture in an unstable economic environment. This paper identifies key problems in the company’s decision to reduce its workforce in an effort to redefine the role of human resources management. It also examines how Home Depot fits the Lepak
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leaders‚ Home Depot and Lowe’s. In an effort to increase their top and bottom-lines‚ Home Depot and Lowe’s have implemented strategies like improving customer service‚ attracting professional customers‚ and introducing a more favorable merchandise mix. Combined sales from the two companies accounted for more than a third of the industry’s sales. In the mean time‚ smaller hardware stores struggled to remain in the game. Galeotafiore reports shows confidence in the methods Home Depot deployed
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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 to conduct the customer businesses. Since Nardelli wanted to conduct
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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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