BusinessWeek | Marvin Ellison, 05EMBA: Home Depot’s Mr. Fixit?

Eight months ago, Chief Executive Francis S. Blake promoted Marvin Ellison, 44, from a regional post to be the $71 billion-a-year retailer's executive vice-president of U.S. stores. Ellison's mission: to recreate his success running Home Depot's northern division, where he cut through a conflicting array of messages from headquarters and gave store managers just three goals-cleaner warehouses, stocked shelves, and top customer service. "You could go blindfolded into two stores and know when you were in Marvin's store," Blake says.

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