E-Book Overview
The Case Interview Workbook contains 60 case questions for management consulting interviews, with complete solutions. Every case is compiled and edited by a team of ex-consultants from McKinsey & Company, the Boston Consulting Group, and Bain & Company.
This book fills the gap left by others by providing you with plenty of high-quality cases to practice on before your interview. Many cases are from actual interviews at the top-tier firms and cannot be found elsewhere.
After working through this book, you will be prepared for every type of case question you may encounter: market sizing, estimation, operations, industry analysis, pricing, growth strategy, marketing, investment, M&A, market entry, customer segmentation, profitability, valuation, logic, issue identification, cost analysis, market expansion, and brainteasers, to name a few.
These cases will help you prepare for interviews at leading management consulting firms, including McKinsey & Company, The Boston Consulting Group, Bain & Company, Oliver Wyman, Strategy& (formerly Booz & Company), A.T. Kearney, Roland Berger, and L.E.K, as well as for consulting roles at large firms such as Accenture, Deloitte, PwC, EY, and KPMG.
Note that is a workbook, designed to complement other preparation books. You will have a hard time solving these cases without learning first elsewhere how to do so, e.g. which frameworks to use, how to use them, and how to structure a solution.
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THE CASE INTERVIEW WORKBOOK 60 Case Questions for Management Consulting with Solutions
The Case Interview Workbook 60 Cases for Management Consulting with Solutions Copyright © Robert Mellon, 2018 All rights reserved. All use in this book of trademarked names is strictly for editorial and descriptive purposes and reflect solely the views of the author. Words or terms that the author has reason to believe are trademarked are designated as such by the use of appropriate capitalization. No commercial claim is made to the use of trademarked names by the author or the publisher of this book. No parts of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner. This book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Under no circumstances may any part of this book be photocopied for resale. Any use of the information in this book is at the reader’s discretion. The author disclaims any specific information contained herein. Cover Design: Vanessa Mendozzi ISBN: 978-1-72-370256-3 Published by STC Press
Contents
Introduction My path to a consulting offer The gap in existing resources
How consulting interviews work How to prepare Practice Cases Case #1: Gasoline Case #2: Direct mail Case #3: R&D lab Case #4: Hertz Case #5: Magazine Case #6: Meat packing Case #7: Glass bottles Case #8: Airline passenger Case #9: Utility collections Case #10: Piano tuners Case #11: Conglomerate Case #12: Bubble gum Case #13: PC labs Case #14: PC labs, continued Case #15: Drug launch Case #16: Commercial real estate Case #17: Concrete manufacturer Case #18: Golf balls Case #19: Paint Case #20: Aluminum cans
Case #21: Chicken vitamins Case #22: Cure for headaches Case #23: Water purifier Case #24: Water purifier, continued Case #25: Pharma growth Case #26: Logging company Case #27: French fries Case #28: Coffee shop Case #29: Pay phones Case #30: Dress shirts Case #31: Software outsourc