Member-focused PPS: Sustainability of a Business Model in a Changing Industry
CASE STUDY. Was its niche in the insurance industry sufficiently deep? Could the dynamics of the financial markets have a negative impact on the company’s business model?
Angie Urban
Angie Urban is a freelance writer and editor who has assisted professors for the past seven years with articles for academic journals. She has also been involved with numerous masters and doctorate students; proofreading, copyediting, formatting and reference checking their dissertations and theses. She writes cases for the case writing centre at Wits Business School.
Tom Boardman: The Leader as Agile Learner
CASE STUDY. Kinnevik was in a strong financial position and Boardman pondered his reasons for accepting the challenge of being chairman, abandoning any thoughts of retiring at nearly 70 years of age. What could he bring to this position?
MTN in Nigeria: Sailing Too Close to the Wind?
CASE STUDY. In July 2016, MTN’s newly appointed CEO, Rob Shuter, was considering how it was possible that the company had been fined a mammoth US$5.2 billion (R78 billion) by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in October 2015.
The Expansion of Choppies into Africa
CASE STUDY. On a Saturday morning in early October 2015, Choppies chief executive officer (CEO), Ramachandran Ottapathu, made his weekly visit to a Choppies store.
Massbuild: Culture “Gets it Done”
CASE STUDY. In February 2015, Llewellyn Walters, CEO of Massbuild, the building products division of Massmart, a warehouse retail organisation, was perplexed by the results of the 2014 employee engagement survey.