WITS Business School Case Centre
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Hartmann Southern Africa: Keeping Healthcare Moving Forward
50,00 $CASE STUDY. How to develop an innovation strategy that aligned with global goals and values, while considering the unique context of operating in sub-Saharan Africa.
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The South African Post Office: On the Brink
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Barnes had hoped to turn SAPO around and that the organisation would achieve financial self-sufficiency and be able to raise its own capital within five years. However, he and his team were already three months behind in their plan to change the Post Office’s fortunes. Barnes wondered if he needed to revise his strategy.
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Gouritz Cluster Biosphere Reserve: Towards Sustainability
50,00 $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.
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Flowers4U.co.za: Satisfaction Infraction
50,00 $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.
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Exel Petroleum: Fuel for Black Economic Empowerment
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Radebe wondered how to ensure the success of a new venture that would have to compete against the major global oil brands.
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LEW Auto: Getting the Wheels Turning
50,00 $CASE STUDY. The new owner was worried that his business was not growing as he had anticipated that it would. He wanted to identify where the problem lay and what he needed to do to grow the business.
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Women in Wine: Can Principles Turn a Profit?
50,00 $CASE STUDY. CEO presents two courses of action to shareholders: focus resources on developing a more innovative marketing strategy or acquire a property to diversify into hospitality and farming ventures.
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Another Hotel on Route 62: Room for a Niche?
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Moyo believed that there could be scope for a disruptive hotel model on Cape Route 62, but it was crucial to target the right audience.
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Barbara Queally: A 180˚ Change in Leadership Style
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Her management style had been way too authoritarian. She wondered how she could become a more open, authentic leader – and, indeed, if it was possible to make this change.
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The South African National Minimum Wage Conundrum: Equality vs Growth?
50,00 $CASE STUDY. The South African government saw the national minimum wage (NMW) as a positive intervention that would address income inequality in the country and help to overcome poverty.
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Desmond Makondo
50,00 $CASE STUDY. These three part cases is about Desmond Makondo who walked out of the Johannesburg offices of digital products manufacturer, Hewlett Packard (HP), with a digital camera, two printers and an undertaking that he would pay the company R8 000 for the equipment within two months.
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Peregrine Financial Group: Misappropriating Customer Funds
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In early July 2012, the United States Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) filed a federal lawsuit against Peregrine Financial Group In. c(PFG), a futures trading firm, and its founder Russell Wasendorf.
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Hansa Pilsener: Remaining Relevant in a Changing Market
50,00 $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.
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Charterhouse Bank: Banking Operations Undermining the Law
50,00 $CASE STUDY. On 23 June 2006, the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) announced that it had placed Charterhouse Bank (Charterhouse) under statutory management as a result of an ongoing investigation into banking operations at Charterhouse.
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Nomura Group: Trading with Privileged Information
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In late March 2012, the Securities Exchange and Surveillance Commission (SESC), the investigative unit of the Japanese Financial Services Authority (FSA), confirmed that Nomura Securities Co., Ltd (NSC) – a subsidiary of Nomura Holdings, Inc. – had been involved in insider trading.
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