WITS Business School Case Centre
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South African Budget 2019: Hard Choices in Tough Times
50,00 $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.
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Member-focused PPS: Sustainability of a Business Model in a Changing Industry
50,00 $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?
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SAP SA and CAD House: Of Conduct and Commission
50,00 $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.
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McKinsey & Company: Hard Lessons Learned in South Africa
50,00 $CASE STUDY. The Gauteng High Court “set aside and declared unlawful all the decision-making processes through which Eskom had concluded [a] contract with McKinsey”. Subsequent events and the high court judgement meant that the partners at McKinsey SA had to assess the lessons learned from this project before embarking on further projects with South African state-owned entities (SOEs).
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KPMG: Rebuilding Trust in South Africa
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Six months had passed since KPMG South Africa had released its integrated annual report titled Rebuilding Trust, Redefining Professionalism. Had the company done enough to acknowledge and rectify its legal and ethical lapses, and restore trust?
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Deloitte South Africa: Complicit, Conniving or Caught Unawares
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Two years had passed since Deloitte South Africa (SA) had released its Transparency Report which detailed its journey of self-reflection as a firm and the ways in which it intended to rebuild trust and restore professionalism. Had Deloitte SA done enough to acknowledge and rectify its ethical and governance lapses, and restore trust?
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Cellulant: Digital Innovation for Financial Services in Africa
50,00 $CASE STUDY. How best to respond to the changing needs of Cellulant’s own customers – the banks and merchants – so that, in turn, these customers could respond to the changing needs of their customers.
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Bain & Company and SARS: A Massive Failure of Governance and Integrity
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Although Bain denied any wrongdoing, Vittorio Massone, its managing partner for sub-Saharan Africa, had had a closer relationship with Moyane than initially had been disclosed. Bain ultimately admitted to “significant errors of judgement”, but how might the company avoid such a situation in future?
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The 2007/8 Global Financial Crisis: A Decade On
50,00 $CASE STUDY. While the general consensus was that the financial system had changed pursuant to 2008, as well as emerging stronger for all the changes that were made, the critical question remained – had it changed enough to prevent the events of 2007/8 repeating themselves?
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WACSI: Striving for Sustainability
50,00 $CASE STUDY. WACSI had taken steps to diversify its donor base, generate its own income and strengthen internal sustainability. Afadzinu wondered whether WACSI’s strategies to ensure its future sustainability would succeed.
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PTiP: A Bumpy Road to Solar Success
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Alberts had yet to sign his first deal to license and build a turnkey solar module factory. He was unwavering in his belief that PTiP had something the country needed, but he was also aware that if it didn’t take off fairly soon, the commercial window of opportunity would close. What was the solution?
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South African Budget 2018: Walking a Fiscal Tightrope
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Finding a way of halting the decline of South Africa’s finances while ensuring that the fiscus continued in its central role of supporting the poor.
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Soweto Style: Small Business Growing Pains
50,00 $CASE STUDY. How to grow the business while dealing with capacity and financial issues.
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SolarTurtle: Searching for the Game Changer
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Van der Walt wondered whether the introduction of the BabyTurtle and the MiniTurtle, the company’s newest products, would improve the growth rate of the company.
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Tom Boardman: The Leader as Agile Learner
50,00 $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?
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