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Gone Rural
Perold, Andre F.Caso HBS-211016-EFinanzasGone Rural employs 750 women in rural communities across Swaziland to produce handwoven baskets and other hand-crafted items. The women are mostly grandmothers caring for children orphaned as a result of the country's high AIDS-related death rate. The company has a strong social mission to improve the economic situation of these women and wants to grow rapidly. It has been very successful designing, making, and selling its products in the high-en...Desde 8,20 €
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VALR: More than Courage Required to Scale
Roos Jacques, Kerrin MyresCaso IVEY-W32405-EDirección estratégica, Iniciativa emprendedoraVALR, a cryptocurrency platform and South African financial technology (fintech) company, was experiencing scaling challenges in August 2021. Launched in 2018, the start-up took on the market incumbent—a company trading in 40 countries. Within 18 months, VALR had become the market leader in terms of locally traded volume. However, this created growth pains and presented the issue of how the company could scale successfully. The company’s chief ex...Desde 8,20 €
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African Tiger (B)
Rajinder RainaCaso IVEY-9B10M010-EDirección estratégica, Iniciativa emprendedoraAWARD WINNING CASE - This case series won top prize in the 2010 Association of African Business Schools (AABS)/EMERALD case competition. In January 2007, Tiger Wheels (Tiger) and ATS informed its lead banker in Germany that it was forecasting a breach of its covenants, just 18 months after acquiring the Kentucky wheel plant. This was a critical matter and, as a result, the top management at Tiger was intimately involved in the deliberations. ATS ...Desde 5,74 €
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Satrix: Competing in the Passive Asset Management Industry in South Africa, Teaching Note
Egan, MarkNota del Instructor HBS-221078-EFinanzasTeaching note for case 221020.Desde 0,00 €
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Con Roux Construction (Pty) Ltd. (A)
Ferreira, Anton; Miller, PaddyCaso DG-990-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasCon Roux Construction covers a period of 4 years, 1987-1991 in which the company undergoes a change of management, introduces radically different management systems and, in the process, is awarded a gold medal from the National Productivity Institute of South Africa. The issue that faces the new management is how to sustain this process into the 90s while trying to survive in a declining market.Desde 8,20 €
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McKinsey & Company: Facilitating Bribery in South Africa
Morris Mthombeni; Albert Wöcke; Alvaro Cuervo-CazurraCaso IVEY-9B20M145-EDirección estratégicaThe head of the South African subsidiary of the US consulting firm McKinsey & Company (McKinsey), has to address the implications of the firm’s involvement in a corruption scandal. The South African office was implicated in a scandal involving its local pDesde 8,20 €
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Discovery Limited
Porter, Michael E.; Kramer, Mark R.; Sesia, AldoCaso HBS-715423-EDirección estratégicaDiscovery Ltd. is a South-African based insurance company. Started in the early 1990s, Discovery used behavioral economics and data collection to innovate in the health care insurance industry. Its founder Adrian Gore believed that the company's products needed to not only make money but have a positive impact on society. Using its Vitality Wellness program as its strategic lynchpin, Discovery expanded into other insurance areas and financial ser...Desde 8,20 €
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Momentum and Metropolitan’s Merger: Authentic Transformational Leadership
Caren Scheepers; Sonja SwartCaso IVEY-9B15C004-EDirección estratégica, Liderazgo y Dirección de personasThe merger of Momentum and Metropolitan into MMI Holdings Limited, one of South Africa’s largest insurers, played out against the setting of South Africa’s volatile currency and post-apartheid environment, with sensitive employees and a Competition Tribunal that prohibited the retrenchment of around 2,000 employees. The two companies with very different cultures were merged, with only one of the CEOs attaining the Group CEO position. The leaders’...Desde 8,20 €
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Target of Opportunity: South Africa's Western Cape Seeks a Role in the African Oil Boom
Varley, Pamela; Hausmann, RicardoCaso HBS-HKS771-EEconomíaThis strategy case describes an initiative in the Western Cape province of South Africa to capitalize on an oil boom off the western coast of Africa by cultivating an industrial "cluster" of complementary businesses with the capacity to service, repair, and build components for oil and gas drilling vessels and equipment. The first half of the case lays out the initial thinking, planning, and strategizing. It includes the motive for launching the ...Desde 8,20 €