entrepreneurship
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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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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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Spin-offs at Tremcar: Partnerships for Growth
8,00 $ – 50,00 $CASE STUDY. The Tougas brothers started Tremcar, a food-grade tanker trailer manufacturer, in 1962 and sold it to Jacques Tremblay and his partner in 1987. This case presents an entrepreneur who chose to create spin-offs as a growth and competitive strategy.
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Glacier Bilboquet: A Profusion of Frozen Delights
8,00 $ – 50,00 $CASE STUDY. The case finds the managing couple at a crossroad, faced with the challenge of making strategic choices for their business’s future as well for their own future.
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Business Process Outsourcing and Offshoring: Could Yahluma Compete?
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In January 2009, young entrepreneurs Ayanda Qunu and Thembi Bhayi abandoned their plans to start a fully owned contact centre, Yahluma Solutions Ltd, in Buffalo City in the Eastern Cape, South Africa.
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Tia’s Muesli: Small Dog in the Big Dogs’ Lair
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In April 2011, Hani Niayesh, owner and managing director of breakfast cereal manufacturer, Tia’s Muesli, received an unexpected phone call from the Pick n Pay Hypermarket Head Office.
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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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Shanduka Black Umbrellas: Giving Impetus to Black Enterprises
50,00 $CASE STUDY. In September 2016, Seapei Mafoyane, chief executive officer (CEO) of Shanduka Black Umbrellas (SBU), a business incubator targeting emerging black-owned enterprises, was busy writing her annual review for inclusion in SBU’s 2016 annual report.
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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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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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Ndaba Ntsele: Entrepreneurial Vision
50,00 $CASE STUDY. On 19 May 2010, Ndaba Ntsele – Ernst & Young World Best Entrepreneur (SA, 2007) and CEO of Pamodzi Investment Holdings (PIH), a diversified investment company – was preparing for the launch of Pamodzi Aviation the next day.
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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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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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