WITS Business School Case Centre
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Tashas Franchising: Will Service Stand in the Way of Success?
50,00 $CASE STUDY. It was a Saturday morning in April 2009 at Tashas at Atholl Square: the first Tashas that Natasha Sideris had opened, and her flagship store.
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Tashas: Franchising the Boutique Café Experience
50,00 $CASE STUDY. At the beginning of 2009, Natasha Sideris, owner and founder of Tashas – a hugely popular gourmet café in Atholl Square, Sandton – was on the verge of a massive expansion: to open 25 franchises at upmarket centres around the country.
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Redhill High School: Free to Build Excellence
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Mike Russell, principal of the highly academic Redhill High School in the north of Johannesburg, had had a demanding start to his day.
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The Stokvel Sector: Opportunities and Challenges
50,00 $CASE STUDY. By 2009, stokvels (community-based savings clubs) were playing a substantial role in the South African economy.
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The Times: Bridging the Old with the New
50,00 $CASE STUDY. It was April 2007, and Ray Hartley still had myriad unanswered questions in the lead-up to the launch of a new daily newspaper, The Times, in June 2007.
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Maria Ramos: Transforming Transnet Strategy
50,00 $CASE STUDY. It was 21 February 2006. Maria Ramos, CEO of Transnet, one of the largest parastatals in South Africa, was facing a strike by the unions, representing more than 85 000 people.
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Woolworths SA: Making Sustainability Sustainable
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In February 2009, Justin Smith, manager of the Good business journey at Woolworths, a leading South African department store, was a worried man.
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Hollard: The Office Move
50,00 $CASE STUDY. By April 2009, Hollard Insurance had been in Arcadia, its new building, for a little over three years.
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Altis Biologics: From Labs to Riches
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Doctor Nicolaas Duneas was in a quandary: as he sat in his dishevelled office at the Tshwane University of Technology (TUT), he pondered the future of his company Altis Biologics.
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Legal Aid Board: Balancing the Scales of Justice
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In 1998/1999, the Legal Aid Board had faced closure because of a contingent liability of more than R600 million for legal services delivered by private practitioners to the organisation’s clients.
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Treatment Action Campaign: Managing Activists (TAC)
50,00 $CASE STUDY. It was mid-2008 and Zackie Achmat, founder of the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) − widely regarded as one of the most successful HIV/AIDS activist organisations in the world – knew that the organisation he had founded was facing two related challenges.
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Dan Olofsson: IT Magnate at a Turning Point
50,00 $CASE STUDY. “We cannot just sit by and do nothing!” said Sebastian Olofsson to his uncle, Dan Olofsson, a Swedish IT billionaire and owner of a private game reserve in Hluhluwe (northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa).
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Pick n Pay: Changing its Environmental Footprint
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Pick n Pay’s initial steps to address environmental issues in the 1980s culminated in 2007 with the launch of its Sustainable Development Vision and Action Plan.
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Cape Herb & Spice Company: Choosing a Growth Strategy
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Irene Ivy-Schuurmans and Dale Kneen started the Cape Herb and Spice Company in 1992, selling their wares from a modest barrow at the Cape Town Waterfront.
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JL Zwane: Corporate Social Responsibility meets Social Entrepreneur
50,00 $CASE STUDY. It was October 2007 and social entrepreneur Reverend Spiwo Xapile sat in his immaculate office at the J L Zwane centre, located on the corner of NY2 and NY7 in Gugulethu (Cape Town).
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