Claire Beswick heads up the case centre at Wits Business School (WBS), having joined the institution as a case writer in September 2001. She has written more than 20 cases herself and overseen the writing of almost all of the more than 350 cases in the WBS collection, having joined the centre just after its inception in the late 1990s. She had refined the WBS Case Centre’s methodology over the years and had worked with numerous WBS faculty members to produce award-winning teaching cases. She firmly believes in the benefits of the case method as a management teaching methodology, and is always keen to share her experiences in the hope that his helps to spread the use of this methodology across the continent.

Prof Geoff Bick is an Emeritus Professor of Marketing at the Graduate School of Business, University of Cape Town.  He has over 20 years of experience lecturing postgraduate students in the field of Marketing, as well as many years of experience as a marketing practitioner before pursuing an academic career.  He has received several teaching awards during his career and supervised over 250 postgraduate students in their research.  He specialises in teaching cases, where he has published 25 teaching cases and teaching notes and received 8 case writing awards from Emerald publishing.  He has conducted case teaching workshops for several institutions, including AABS (Association of African Business Schools), WBS, UCT GSB, NMU, JBS, NUST, and others.

He has an MBA from the University of California, Berkeley, a Doctorate from the University of Johannesburg, and is an NRF-rated researcher.