{"57508":{"#nid":"57508","#data":{"type":"news","title":"A new Wal-Mart sheriff (aka CEO) is in the house","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\n\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EFayetteville Free Weekly\u003C\/em\u003E - June 4, 2009\u003Cbr \/\u003EExpect a more relaxed Wal-Mart host at this year\u0027s shareholders meeting. No one, of course, could out do the late ball cap wearing Sam Moore Walton, but Wal-Mart\u0027s new president and CEO Michael Duke will sure try. This will be Duke\u0027s first shareholders meeting as the man at the top.  Despite his humble Kansas upbringing, the former Wal-Mart \u0022high sheriff\u0022 H. Lee Scott, who proceeded Duke, could not pull off the down-home image as Wal-Mart head cheerleader. Insiders say that Duke can pull it off.  . . . Duke joined Wal-Mart in 1995, coming from the Federated Department Store group and May Department Stores. He is a graduate of Georgia Tech, with a bachelor\u0027s degree in industrial engineering.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/freeweekly.com\/?p=3719\u0022\u003Ehttp:\/\/freeweekly.com\/?p=3719\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Ca class=\u0022moz-txt-link-freetext\u0022 href=\u0022http:\/\/freeweekly.com\/?p=3719\u0022\u003E\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"27279","created_gmt":"2009-06-04 00:00:00","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:06:25","author":"Barbara Christopher","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2009-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2009-06-04T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1242","name":"School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISYE)"}],"categories":[{"id":"145","name":"Engineering"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cstrong\u003EBarbara Christopher\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003EIndustrial and Systems Engineering\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.gatech.edu\/contact\/index.html?id=bt3\u0022\u003EContact Barbara Christopher\u003C\/a\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E404.385.3102\u003C\/strong\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["bchristopher@isye.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}