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StratAFin Inc.: Auditing Change
Verity Hawarden; Margaret Sutherland; Mandla AdonisiCase IVEY-9B12C006-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThis case focuses on organizational transformation in an accounting firm in South Africa. It describes how the impact of both globalization and the transformation that the country had undergone since the advent of democracy in 1994 steered StratAFin Inc. towards a process of building a new identity. The firm’s senior management realized the need for transformation based on the many new challenges in the changing environment. Change was experience...Starting at €8.20
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Olitzki Property Holdings Catalyzes Change in Johannesburg
Anthony Wilson-Prangley; Jonathan Marks; Margaret SutherlandCase IVEY-9B15M118-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe large-scale abandonment of property in inner-city Johannesburg had brought waves of crime, illegal building occupation and general disinvestment. The founder of Olitzki Property Holdings (OPH) saw that an improvement at a precinct level, through carefully constructed partnerships with government, other property owners, tenants and illegal residents, was the key to building a sustainable, inclusive and socially grounded entrepreneurial busines...Starting at €8.20
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Market Stretch
Gavin Price; Margaret SutherlandCase IVEY-9B09M046-EMarketing, StrategyBio-Oil is a multi-purpose skin care product that has gone from being sold only in South Africa to being the No. 1 scar treatment product in 16 of the 17 countries in which it is distributed. Retail sales have jumped from R3 million per annum to R1 billion from 2000 to 2008. Justin and David Letschert made key decisions to eliminate all of the other 119 products that were being manufactured by the company that they took over in 2000, and focused ...Starting at €8.20
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The Beauty of Sorbet
Margaret Sutherland; Verity HawardenCase IVEY-9B12A039-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, Marketing, StrategyHIGHLY COMMENDED CASE - African Business Cases Runner-up, 2012 European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) Case Writing Competition. This case chronicles the origins and growth of Sorbet, a chain of beauty salons targeting upper income women in South African metropolitan areas. Owner Ian Fuhr identified an opportunity to redefine the beauty salon experience in South Africa by offering customers a service unlike anything in the industry....Starting at €8.20
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Tackling the HIV/AIDS Pandemic Through Multi-partner Stakeholder Engagement
Margaret Sutherland; Anthony Wilson-Prangley; Verity HawardenCase IVEY-9B13C029-ELeadership and People Management, StrategyThe Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute (WRHI), a South African non-government organization, played a crucial role in turning the tide in the fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa. The organization significantly influenced the national response to the HIV/AIDS epidemic through its credibility, research output and multiple stakeholder engagement. The collaborative multiparty relationships between WRHI's stakeholders were a key component of the o...Starting at €8.20
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Implantación de SAP en Celsa (B)
Jiménez F.; Andreu i Civit, Rafael; Sieber, Sandra; Subirana Vilanova, Brian; Valor Sabatier, JosepCase SI-140Information Technologies, Knowledge and CommunicationEl caso (B) describe la solución adoptada que llevó a una mejora de la situación competitiva de la empresa.Starting at €5.74
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Angel Villa (A)
Jiménez F.; Santomá, JavierCase F-619FinanceSe analizan las ventajas e inconvenientes de la utilización de distintos instrumentos de previsión (seguro de vida, fondo de pensión, plan de jubilación, etc.)Starting at €8.20
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Implementation of SAP at Celsa (A)
Jiménez F.; Andreu i Civit, Rafael; Sieber, Sandra; Subirana Vilanova, Brian; Valor Sabatier, JosepCase SI-139-EInformation Technologies, Knowledge and CommunicationThe case describes the situation of a company with a large number of centres of operations, as a result of acquisitions and takeovers, that decides to implement SAP. It presents the problems associated with the implementation of a complex system in a distributed environment. Case (A) should be accompanied by case (B), to be handed out in class, which describes the solution eventually adopted, which leads to an improvement in the company's competi...Starting at €8.20
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Implementation of SAP at Celsa (B)
Jiménez F.; Andreu i Civit, Rafael; Sieber, Sandra; Subirana Vilanova, Brian; Valor Sabatier, JosepCase SI-140-EInformation Technologies, Knowledge and CommunicationCase (B) describes the solution eventually adopted, which leads to an improvement in the company's competitive situation.Starting at €5.74
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Implantación de SAP en Celsa (A)
Jiménez F.; Andreu i Civit, Rafael; Sieber, Sandra; Subirana Vilanova, Brian; Valor Sabatier, JosepCase SI-139Information Technologies, Knowledge and CommunicationEl caso plantea la situación de una empresa con múltiples centros de trabajo, fruto de adquisiciones y absorciones, que decide implantar SAP. Presenta la problemática de puesta en marcha de un sistema complejo en un entorno distribuido. El caso (A) debe ir acompañado del caso (B), a entregar en clase, donde se describe la solución adoptada que llevó a una mejora de la situación competitiva de la empresa.Starting at €8.20