Home Depot Case Analysis Andrew Stovall MKTG 6301.01 Dr. Rajaratnam September 27‚ 2012 Home Depot Case Analysis Summary The Home Depot Case takes place in 2007 during a time when the former chairman and CEO Robert Nardelli had recently announced his “mutually agreed” upon resignation from the company. Nardelli started at Home Depot in 2000 and produced rapid growth for the company because of his cost-cutting measures and centralized purchasing strategies. However‚ even though the profits
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The Home Depot "You Can Do It. We Can Help." History of The Home Depot As you can see the stock that we charted for this project was the Home Depot’s stock. The Home Depot was founded by two men Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank. Their original partnership was called MB associates and they officially incorporated on June 29‚ 1978. They did change their company name obviously to The Home Depot. They opened their first store on June 22‚ 1979 in Atlanta Georgia. They have been growing ever since then
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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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Executive Summary -The Home Depot The Home Depot (Ticker: HD) is the world’s largest home-improvement retailer along with being an American Fortune 50 company. The company operates 2‚259 retail building supply/home improvement “warehouse” type stores all across the United States‚ Canada and Mexico. The Home Depot has over 340‚000 team members and is based in Atlanta‚ Georgia. The average store size is just over 100‚000 square feet along with an additional 24‚000 square feet set aside for seasonal
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Home Depot is in the business of customer service‚ so I think the leadership style Home Depot is looking for revolves around a participative leadership style. The military is in the business of defending the nation‚ so the leadership style that the military is training for requires
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1) On the basis of Home Depot’s response to environmental issues‚ describe the attributes (power‚ legitimacy‚ urgency) of this stakeholder. Assess the company’s strategy and performance with environmental and employee stakeholders. A stakeholder framework helps identify the internal stakeholders and the external stakeholders. Internal stakeholders such as: employees‚ boards of directors‚ and managers. Customers‚ special interest groups‚ regulators‚ and others who agree are external stakeholders
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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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Project 3 Home Depot and Hewlett Packard: Diagnosing Change using the Star Four Frame Model By Amanda HRM587 Professor Anderson I Diagnostic model The diagnostic model that I believe that the Hewlett Packard and Home Depot would fit the best is the Four Frame Model. The Four Frame Model consists of: Structural‚ Human Resources‚ Political‚ and Symbolic. The Structural frame is based on the rules‚ goals‚ policies of the organization‚ technology
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sure that the entire company is on the same page in terms of having clear company direction as well as complying with that direction the company is going in and spells out what the consequences are for not complying with said direction. As for Home Depot it seems that the company message has become diluted as it trickles down the leadership ladder into the stores. When I asked the in store associate development department supervisor which is the in store human resources person that does all the
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The Change Analysis The Issues The companies that I will be researching are Home Depot and HP Corporations. These two companies have recently undergone reconstruction within their companies that ultimately resulted in hiring new Chief Executive Officers (CEO). Home Depot has undergone some recent changes that were affecting the company’s business overall. Robert Nardelli‚ the former CEO of Home Depot came under fire for the size of his pay package as well as his management style‚ stepped
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