WITS Business School Case Centre
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Employees as Partners: Is the Time Right at Umsinsi Health Care?
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Ever since she had started Umsinsi Health Care (Pty) Ltd in South Africa in November 2008, Amanda Wilde’s vision had been to place the company, which distributed medical devices, in a trust for all of her employees.
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SA Metal Group: Could Bigger Be Better?
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In November 2010, Clifford Barnett – director and co-owner of family business, SA Metal Group (SA Metal) – put his hard hat down on his desk, looked out on the busy scrapyard below his window in Epping, Cape Town and pondered the company’s growth.
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Competition Commission vs South African Airways
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In July 2005, the BA/Comair (Comair) executives were eagerly awaiting the Competition Tribunal’s decision in the case brought by the Competition Commission against South African Airways (Pty) Ltd (SAA), South Africa’s dominant domestic airline.
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A Mining Case Study: What Went Wrong and What Should Have Happened?
50,00 $CASE STUDY. The year 2011 had been a difficult one for Jack Smith, group organisational development manager of a South African mining contracting group.
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Phodiclinics’ Acquisition of New Protector: Increasing Concentration?
50,00 $CASE STUDY. On 31 October 2006, executives at the Council for Medical Schemes (CMS) and private hospital group Netcare were eager to hear the Competition Tribunal’s decision regarding the acquisition of the New Protector Group hospitals by Phodiclinics (Pty) Ltd (a division of the Medi-Clinic Group) and DHJ Defty.
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Coca-Cola’s MDCs: Distribution Effectiveness vs Social Responsibility?
50,00 $CASE STUDY. By June 2010, The Coca-Cola Company’s (Coca-Cola) micro distribution centre (MDC) network in Africa had proven to be incredibly successful. Coca-Cola had built up the network to distribute its products through small, independent local entrepreneurs to even smaller outlets, enabling the company to reach markets that traditionally had been very difficult to access.
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First National Bank: Developing a Culture of Innovation
50,00 $CASE STUDY. It was mid-September 2010. All 50 finalists in the annual First National Bank (FNB) Innovators Campaign were about to present their ideas to the judges.
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The JSE/BESA Merger: Navigating the Integration Minefield
50,00 $CASE STUDY. A few days before the JSE Limited (JSE) and the Bond Exchange of South Africa Limited (BESA) merged on 22 June 2009, Nicky Newton-King, deputy CEO of the JSE, –who had been tasked with leading the integration of the two organisations – reviewed what she had done so far and the plans she had put in place to ensure a smooth integration.
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Ndaba Ntsele: Entrepreneurial Vision
50,00 $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.
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eThekwini MetroConnect: Broadband for the Community
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In the early 2000s, the eThekwini Municipality, which included the large city of Durban in the province of KwaZulu Natal in South Africa embarked on a strategy to turn Durban into a ‘Smart City’.
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Nihilent Technologies: Recommending Change at The Banking Association South Africa
50,00 $CASE STUDY. It was September 2008 and Ravi Teja, associate vice president and head of enterprise transformation at the global consulting company, Nihilent, was waiting to meet with his team to review their progress on The Banking Association South Africa project.
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Game: Competing in Africa’s Playing Fields
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In 2007, Jan Potgieter, chief executive of Massdiscounters (a division of Massmart), had steered Game, one of its general merchandise discounters, into investing far more vigorously in Africa.
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Remgro: Distributing its Tobacco Interests
50,00 $CASE STUDY. It was December 2009, just over a year since Remgro Limited (Remgro) had completed the distribution of its indirect shareholding in British American Tobacco plc (BAT): 90% of its shares had gone to its shareholders, while the balance of 10% went to a new investment vehicle listed on the Luxembourg Stock Exchange, called Reinet Investments.
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Discovery Ltd: Entrepreneurship in its DNA
50,00 $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.
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Competition Commission: 1999–2009 Background Note
50,00 $CASE STUDY. The Competition Act of 1998 came into force in South Africa on 1 September 1999, and enabled the establishment of three bodies: the Competition Commission (the Commission), The Competition Tribunal (the Tribunal) and the Competition Appeal Court (CAC).
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