Entrepreneurship
Discover our Entrepreneurship case studies. The case studies are the work of internationally recognized authors from HEC Montréal and Wits Business School.
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Dartfish – How a University Spin-Off Became a Global Leader in Video Analysis Solutions
8,00 $ – 50,00 $CASE STUDY. The case provides a platform for students to explore the internationalization strategies adopted by Dartfish, a born-global firm, and the dos and don’ts of market expansion.
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Poches & Fils: Path to Success of a Born-Digital Brand
8,00 $ – 50,00 $CASE STUDY. The case follows the entrepreneurial of the founders of Poches & Fils.
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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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Raizcorp: Planting the Seeds for Entrepreneurial Growth and Prosperity
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Raizcorp chief executive Allon Raiz was faced each day with many applications to join his business incubation Prosperator programme.
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The Phone Shop: Growth and the Entrepreneur (Part A)
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In August 2006, the lease on The Phone Shop – a business that the Brill family had run for the past 18 years – was up for renewal.
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The Phone Shop: Growth and the Entrepreneur (Part B)
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In August 2009, Eran Brill, director of The Phone Shop (Pty) Ltd, a consumer electronic goods retailer, was about to renegotiate the lease on his Sandton City store.
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Entrepreneurship in the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Industry
8,00 $ – 50,00 $CASE STUDY. This case is designed to demonstrate issues and problems in sustainability-driven entrepreneurship in the Maryland oyster industry.
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Bidorbuy: Bidding for First Place
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In November 2009, bidorbuy was the largest South African online marketplace. Following a failed attempt earlier in the year to purchase bidorbuy, kalahari.net – a subsidiary of Naspers and a highly successful online retailer – indicated that it was going to compete directly with bidorbuy as an online marketplace.
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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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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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Polecat: Poised for Growth
50,00 $CASE STUDY. It was October 2007, and a perfect early summer’s day in Cape Town. In his small loft office, Michael Meltzer, founder of Zacron Industries CC[1] trading as Polecat, which manufactured and marketed a patented clasp and claw device used in shopfitting as well as many other applications, was deep in thought.
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