VALUE LINE PUBLISHING, OCTOBER 2002 Financial Forecast for Home Depot Fiscal year 2001 2002E 2003E 2004E 2005E 2006E Growth in new stores 17.5% 15.0% 13.2% 9.0% 7.0% 5.5% Sales growth for existing stores -0.4% 3.0% 4.0% 8.3% 8.3% 8.3% Total sales growth 17.1% 18.0% 17.2% 17.3% 15.3% 13.8% Gross margin 31.6% 32.0% 32.3% 32.4% 32.5% 32.5% Cash operating expenses/Sales 20.9% 21.0% 20.7% 20.8% 20.5% 20.5% Depreciation/Sales 1.4% 1
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TAVIS COBURN Deep, lasting culture change requires an integrated approach that remodels a company’s social systems. The leadership team of Home Depot employed a remarkable set of tools to do that. by Ram Charan W hen Robert Nardelli arrived at Home Depot in December 2000, the deck seemed stacked against the new CEO. He had no retailing experience and, in fact, had spent an entire career in industrial, not consumer, businesses. His previous job was running General Electric’s power systems
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Introduction In July 1997, Kmart appeared to be nearing a year-long effort to sell its faltering Do-It-Yourself (DIY) home improvement chain, Builders Square. Leonard Green & Partners, a Los Angeles-based retail buyout firm, had proposed to buy Builders Square (BSQ) and merge it with Hechinger’s, a Washington, D.C.-based DIY chain that had been a pioneer in the retail home improvement industry. The newly-formed Builders Square-Hechinger combination would create the nation’s third largest DIY
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need to identify their innovation fulcrum, the point at which the level of product innovation maximizes both revenues and profits. Innovation Versus Complexity What Is Too Much of a Good Thing? COPYRIGHT © 2005 HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PUBLISHING CORPORATION. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. by Mark Gottfredson and Keith Aspinall Walk into the In-N-Out Burger restaurant on Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco, and one of the first things that may strike you is the number four. Four colors: red
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lasting consumer base, one which will be analyzed further in this document. The following document will not only explore the history and present, but will outline in detail the future demographic trends that are essential to GE’s future success in the home appliance industry. General Electric and the Kitchen Range Introduction Kitchen ranges have gone through major transitions since wood burning and cast iron devices to induction, convection and dual fuel from gas to electric. The industrial
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Bridge PaPer ™ Developing Ethical Leadership R. Edward Freeman Lisa Stewart Featuring a Thought Leader Commentary™ with Steve Odland, Chairman and CEO, Office Depot, Inc. © 2006, Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics www.corporate-ethics.org Distribution Policy: Bridge Papers™ may only be displayed or distributed in electronic or print format for non-commercial educational use on a royaltyfree basis. Any royalty-free use of Bridge Papers™ must use the complete document
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Bridge PaPer ™ Developing Ethical Leadership R. Edward Freeman Lisa Stewart Featuring a Thought Leader Commentary™ with Steve Odland, Chairman and CEO, Office Depot, Inc. © 2006, Business Roundtable Institute for Corporate Ethics www.corporate-ethics.org Distribution Policy: Bridge Papers™ may only be displayed or distributed in electronic or print format for non-commercial educational use on a royaltyfree basis. Any royalty-free use of Bridge Papers™ must use the complete document
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------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------- Table of Contents Executive Summary 3 Introduction 4 Description of Product 4 Target Audience 5 Quantitative Overview 7 Market Mix Overview 7 Product 12 Product line 12 Branding 12 Quality features 12 Price 13 Place 14 Promotion 16 Advertising 16 Promotion 19 Word-of-Mouth 20 Public Relations (Press Release) 20 Conclusion 20 References 22 Executive Summary Pneumatic Delivery Device (PDD) strives
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should be charged with the opportunity cost of the land. a. True b. False (12-2) Depreciation cash flows F I K Answer: a EASY 4. The primary advantage to using accelerated rather than straight-line depreciation is that with accelerated depreciation the present value of the tax savings provided by depreciation will be higher, other things held constant. a. True b. False (12-1) Opportunity costs F I Answer: a MEDIUM 5. Opportunity costs include those cash
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neighborhood.” Unseen dividing lines prevented blacks from living on that side of town however, and she was driven from the neighborhood by very un-neighborly conduct. As time would progress more and more blacks migrated to East Winston. White supremacy, in the early 1900’s, threatened blacks. The Ku Klux Klan even marched in the area. Around 1920, the whites left in East Winston realized the local emergence of blacks were not going to leave and decided to sell their homes to blacks. Drastic changes
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