CASE STUDY. Mboweni and his team had to find a way of putting the country on a path to fiscal sustainability, given the fiscal inheritance that his predecessors had left him.

CASE STUDY. The management team managed to exploit loopholes in the group’s integrity management systems so as to take advantage of the influence that members of the Gupta familya had over state machinery and land lucrative contracts with state-owned enterprises. When SAP’s own investigations showed the leaked information to be true, CEO, Bill McDermott and the company’s executive team had to decide how best to respond in order to prevent similar dishonesty in the future.

CASE STUDY. The board had established Gouritz Enterprises as a social enterprise that would be responsible for profit-driven activities which would fund the NPC’s core costs. The enterprise had not yet started work in any formal way, and Crane was not sure if establishing a separate profit-driven entity was the best way of achieving the self-financing goal.

CASE STUDY. The client was still not satisfied with a solution Quinn had proposed the day before to make up for unmet expectations regarding flowers delivered on Valentines’ Day. He wondered how best to respond.

CASE STUDY. This case was written to provide a basis for discussion and learning about the principles of successful product positioning, and of successful communications in the marketing mix.

CASE STUDY. The primary teaching objective of this case is to understand the principals of mutually beneficial mergers and acquisitions.

CASE STUDY. In November 2014, as the South African development agency, Kagiso Trust (KT) prepared to celebrate 30 years of existence in 2015, Themba Mola, KT’s chief operating officer, reflected on the development work that the organisation had done since it started out in 1985.

CASE STUDY. With many years of experience as an entrepreneur and businessman, Alan Reeves, chief operating officer (COO) of Legendary Retail Brands (LRB), which was the shareholder and administrator of the Mica, DIY Depot and House of Paint and Décor voluntary buying group (VBG) brands, was continuously thinking about the next step for the group.

CASE STUDY. In August 2012, 44 people were killed during an unprotected strike by employees of platinum miner, Lonmin, at its Marikana mine in South Africa’s North West province.

CASE STUDY. By January 2011, Thabiso Tlelai, chief executive officer (CEO) of The Don Group, South Africa’s largest all-suite hotel chain, knew he had to take drastic measures to save the company.

CASE STUDY. In November 2014, Kagiso Trust (KT) was at an important crossroads. Anti-apartheid struggle icons such as Dr Beyers Naudé and Archbishop Desmond Tutu had established the organisation with European Union (EU) funds in the 1980s to promote the struggle against apartheid.

CASE STUDY. On 1 September 2009, as financial services firm Discovery Ltd was about to release its annual results for 2008/2009, its chief executive officer (CEO) and founder, Adrian Gore, took some time to consider the company’s trajectory since its inception 16 years ago.

CASE STUDY. On 19 May 2010, Ndaba Ntsele – Ernst & Young World Best Entrepreneur (SA, 2007) and CEO of Pamodzi Investment Holdings (PIH), a diversified investment company – was preparing for the launch of Pamodzi Aviation the next day.

CASE STUDY. In August 2006, the lease on The Phone Shop – a business that the Brill family had run for the past 18 years – was up for renewal.

CASE STUDY. In August 2009, Eran Brill, director of The Phone Shop (Pty) Ltd, a consumer electronic goods retailer, was about to renegotiate the lease on his Sandton City store.