Lowe's new CEO plans to 'replicate Home Depot playbook'

If you can't beat ' em, copy 'em. Marvin Ellison, the new chief executive at Lowe's, says his plan to fix the floundering home-improvement chain includes a few tricks he learned from his days as an executive at Home Depot, according to analysts to whom he's spoken. "He's going to replicate the Home Depot playbook...