Management & Strategy
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Komlan Messie: From Project Management to Program Management
8,00 $ – 50,00 $CASE STUDY. This case deals with the difficulties faced by a young Togolese engineer who has become a program manager in a Quebec-based high technology firm.
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Regulate or Motivate? A Salt Reduction Strategy for Processed Food in South Africa
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Six months had passed since the South African government had gazetted draft regulations on salt content in food.
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OreCo North West: The Strike that Wasn’t
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In August 2012, 44 people were killed during an unprotected strike by employees of platinum miner, Lonmin, at its Marikana mine in South Africa’s North West province.
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Calum McCracken and NGN Telecoms: The Power of Perseverance
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In September 2014, Calum McCracken, chief executive officer (CEO) of Next Generation Network Telecommunications (Pty) Ltd (NGN Telecoms), met with his partners to discuss the company’s Kenyan dilemma.
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The Sebata Group: Doing Business the African Way
50,00 $CASE STUDY. Matome Modipa, executive chairman and founder of the Sebata Group of technical engineering and management consultants, enjoyed coming to work.
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Dimension Data in Africa: Making BEE Work
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In September 2012, IT firm Dimension Data paid out R1.26 billion to the various participants in a broad-based black economic empowerment (BBBEE) deal that the company had signed eight years earlier.
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Poultry Tariffs: Levelling the Playing Field or Rewarding Inefficiency?
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In July 2013, Siyabulela Tsengiwe – chief commissioner of the International Trade Administration Commission of South Africa (ITAC) – and ITAC commissioners met to make a final determination on a highly contentious customs tariff application.
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Industrial Relations in South Africa: Labour Laws, Labour Institutions and Political Disillusionment
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In 2014, South Africa experienced its longest and costliest strike ever: a five-month stoppage in the platinum sector that cast doubt on the institutions and culture of the country’s labour relations framework.
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Massbuild: Culture “Gets it Done”
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In February 2015, Llewellyn Walters, CEO of Massbuild, the building products division of Massmart, a warehouse retail organisation, was perplexed by the results of the 2014 employee engagement survey.
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The Expansion of Choppies into Africa
50,00 $CASE STUDY. On a Saturday morning in early October 2015, Choppies chief executive officer (CEO), Ramachandran Ottapathu, made his weekly visit to a Choppies store.
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National Development Plan: The Outlook in 2016
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In December 2015, President Jacob Zuma’s decision to replace respected finance minister Nhlanhla Nene with David van Rooyen, an African National Congress backbencher, dealt the country its biggest financial blow since the start of democracy in 1994.
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Legendary Retail Brands: A Sustainable Business Model?
50,00 $CASE STUDY. With many years of experience as an entrepreneur and businessman, Alan Reeves, chief operating officer (COO) of Legendary Retail Brands (LRB), which was the shareholder and administrator of the Mica, DIY Depot and House of Paint and Décor voluntary buying group (VBG) brands, was continuously thinking about the next step for the group.
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FirstRand: Finding its Path into the Indian Market
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In February 2008, eight months after FirstRand Limited sent Stephan Claassen to India to gather insights for a market-entry strategy into that country – the initial preference being to set up as a retail bank – Claassen presented a strategy to the board that focused on setting up as a corporate investment bank in the Africa-India corridor.
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Human Rights Watch: The Burma Situation
8,00 $ – 50,00 $CASE STUDY. This two-part case deals with the events surrounding the monitoring by Human Rights Watch (HRW) of human rights violations targeting Rohingya Muslims in Burma in October 2012.
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Sun Hung Kai: A Governance Crisis in a Family Firm
8,00 $ – 50,00 $CASE STUDY. The case study documents an incident involving one of the world’s largest family-owned, publicly traded firms.
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