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...months, to about $35, it is nowhere near the $60 highs of 2000. Some analysts say fears that higher interest rates will deter home-improvement spending are hurting the stock. Nardelli doesn't think interest rates can derail Home Depot, nor is he looking for radical ideas. Wal-Mart made the risky move into selling groceries when it went through a period of sagging sales in the mid-1990s and built a wildly successful new business. Instead, Nardelli is stretching the company's existing businesses. He is expanding its services to capture retiring baby boomers who prefer...
...branding and competitive bidding--all of them borrowed from the corporate-management textbook. "What distinguishes us from other charities is that I run this like a business," he says. "Even though we're a monopoly here, I want to be at the leading edge in our field. If Wal-Mart went into food banking, we'd out-compete them...
...have the same look and feel and emotional stamp," says Naomi Berkove, who runs the training program. A marketing consultant has helped the training arm develop a brand image that centers around such in-house themes as "lasting connections" and "self-satisfaction." Mulqueen has boosted efficiency with a convenience "mart" so agencies can pick up food at any time...
...running of the paper. Baquet has pushed his people hard to compete with the large East Coast papers in national and foreign coverage, in the Times's reporting on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as with in-depth pieces like a Pulitzer-winning series on Wal-Mart that showed how the store cut prices with overseas sourcing...
...Martha Stewart's products at K Mart definitely raised the bar in many ways," says O'Brien. "Now consumers want affordable home products where the design, the packaging and the colors are better...