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The Home Depot: chapters

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  1. Opening and the scale of the business
  2. Earlier careers in discount retail
  3. Handy Dan and its ownership
  4. The financing relationship begins
  5. Assembling an ownership stake
  6. Departure from Handy Dan
  7. Learning from a warehouse retailer
  8. A proposed early backer
  9. The HomeCo experience
  10. Sponsor message and enterprise customers
  11. Choosing Atlanta and the first store locations
  12. Opening the Atlanta stores
  13. Listing shares and expanding
  14. Expansion beyond Georgia
  15. How the operating model fits together
  16. Hiring people with trade experience
  17. Employee ownership and incentives
  18. Growth and organisational strain
  19. Local buying and coordination
  20. Planning for a new chief executive