WITS Business School Case Centre
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Volkswagen South Africa: VW up! Marketing
50,00 $CASE STUDY. The purpose of this case is to provide a platform for discussion on the concepts of integrated marketing communication and online advertising including social media.
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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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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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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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Altech – The Battle for Self-provision (Part B)
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Altech was already well on its new strategic path when a series of events in 2004 forced it to take a legal stand against the South African government – more specifically, the Department of Communications (DoC).
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Altech – Pioneer in the South African ICT Industry: Path to Restructuring (Part A)
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In 2010, Craig Venter, CEO of Allied Technologies Limited (Altech), reflected on Altech‟s successful growth over the past 14 years.
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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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Foschini Group Ltd: Transforming HR
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Foschini Group’s (FOS) Shani Naidoo was in excellent spirits when she walked out of a two-day group strategy meeting in October 2009.
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Team Barloworld: Building a Global Brand
50,00 $CASE STUDY. The objectives of this case are to generate learning about the principles of successful sponsorship and its role as a tool in the marketing mix.
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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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Zest: A Driving Force in Motors
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Johannesburg-based Zest, well respected in the electric motor industry, was the only distributor of WEG motors throughout southern Africa.
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