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Commercial Bank of Africa
Authors: Chege, Gerald W.; Anzaya, Mbithe; Mullins, John; Low, Murray
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2006
Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) was a medium-sized bank, incorporated in Kenya. The bank served the Kenyan corporate sector as well as international institutions and organizations with offices in Kenya. In late 2003 Mr. Isaac Awuondo, the Managing Director of CBA, was facing an information technology management dilemma...
Dr. Iqbal Surve at Sekunjalo Investment Group (A, B, C, D)
Authors: Hill, Linda A.; Stecker, Emily
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2007
Dr. Iqbal Surve, a self-described “medical doctor, philanthropist, and social entrepreneur,” was born in 1963 and grew up in poverty, like virtually all non-white South Africans during apartheid. In 1997, Surve and three of his comrades founded Sekunjalo, an investment holding company that sought to offer “a gentler capitalism” that stressed putting people before profits, and talent development as a means of raising the lives of previously disadvantaged South Africans.
Pick ‘n Pay – Rekindling Company Values
Author: Stockport, Gary J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Cape Town
Publication Year: 1999
This case study discusses a rekindling of a company's values within a retailing company that has grown from 4 stores and 50 employees in 1967 to some 265 stores and around 28,000 staff in 1998...
Firestone East Africa (1969) Limited (Now Sameer Africa Limited)
Author: Lewa, Peter M.
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2006
Mr. Naushad Noorali Merali, chairman of Firestone East Africa (1969) Limited, had never been known to shy away from any business challenge. He firmly believed that nothing was impossible once a person put his or her mind to solve it. He looked at any business challenge as an opportunity to learn from, whether the outcome was a success or a failure. In January, 1993 the government of Kenya announced that it had put in place a framework for the full liberalization of the economy...
In the Shadow of the City
Authors: Reed, James; Richardson, Nicholas; Donnellon, Anne
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 1990
Traces the history of a collaborative effort to create an organization to manage a major international development project in the slums of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Focuses on a serious set of disagreements which develops several months into the project between the two principals, an Ethiopian woman who founded the project and a British entrepreneur who is the coordinator of the donor consortium...
Kenya Tea Development Agency
Author: Chege, Gerald W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2005
One morning in March 2001, Mr. James K. Njoroge, the Managing Director of Kenya Tea Development Agency, sat in his office on the eighth floor of KTDA Plaza in Nairobi, the company's head office. He focused his mind on the scheduled board meeting to be held the following week. The meeting had only one agenda item to decide the approach that KTDA should take to solve its information management problems...
Shell Oil in Nigeria
Author: Lawrence, Anne T.
Product Type: Cases
Source: North American Case Research Association, Case Research Journal, Winter 1997; The Laurier Institute
Publication Year: 1997
Royal Dutch/Shell, a major oil company, faced widespread international criticism following the execution of Nigerian novelist and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa in November 1995...
De Beers Consolidated Mines: HIV/AIDS Strategy
Authors: Korpalo, Olga; Zimmerman, Brenda
Product Type: Cases
Source: Schulich School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
Joy Beckett, De Beers’ HIV/AIDS Manager, Operations, returned to Johannesburg from the Toronto International AIDS Conference in August 2006. She was very excited to share her new knowledge and the connections she acquired at the conference with her colleagues. However, she realized she needed to think carefully about how to share her ideas for expanding the impact of De Beers HIV/AIDS programs with her colleagues especially in light of the current company restructuring which had been going on for the last three years. A second wave of retrenchment had been just announced.
Coca-Cola in Africa: Increasing Productivity by Combating AIDS
Author: Weatherhead School of Management
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2008
Cocal-Cola has launched several initiatives to educate, protect and curb the AIDS crisis for its employees, in turn helping the economic growth of the whole region.
Phil Chan (A, B)
Authors: Beamish, Paul W.; Schaan, Jean-Louis
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
The case deals with a scam that has been run out of Nigeria since 1990. In it, foreign companies are approached for their assistance in facilitating an international transfer of funds in order to receive a very large but unearned commission...
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