Case Type: new business.
Consulting Firm: Capgemini Consulting first round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: property, real estate.
Case Interview Question #01066: Your client, a wealthy gentleman has recently discovered that a piece of land he is holding is extremely valuable. He wants to know what he should do with it. What would you recommend?
Additional Information: (to be provided only if interviewee… Read the rest
Case Type: market sizing; estimate, guesstimate.
Consulting Firm: Ernst & Young (EY) Advisory first round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: apparel, clothing, textiles.
Case Interview Question #01067: I have an odd hobby of knitting (odd because this interviewer was a male). I knit about 10 sweaters per year. I am looking into this hobby as a business opportunity and want you… Read the rest
Case Type: market sizing; estimate or guesstimate.
Consulting Firm: IBM Global Business Services (GBS) first round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: food and beverages.
Case Interview Question #01068: How many beer bottles are currently in circulation in the United States?
Possible Answer:
At first glance this case seemed like a pretty straightforward population-based market sizing case. First I decided to figure… Read the rest
Case Type: market sizing; estimate or guesstimate.
Consulting Firm: AlixPartners first round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: oil, gas, petroleum industry.
Case Interview Question #01069: Exxon is a chain of gas stations owned by multinational oil and gas corporation Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM). Exxon is Exxon Mobil’s primary retail gasoline brand in most of the United States, with the highest concentration of… Read the rest
Case Type: estimate or guesstimate.
Consulting Firm: Analysis Group first round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: None.
Case Interview Question #01070: How many people have you interacted with over the last year?
Additional Information: (to be provided if interviewee asks probing questions)
• Only count each unique person once. The interviewer complained that one Harvard Business School MBA student neglected this detail… Read the rest
Case Type: new business.
Consulting Firm: Corporate Executive Board (CEB) first round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: e-commerce & online business; retail.
Case Interview Question #01071: Our client Company Alpha is a supermarket and grocery store chain that is currently one of the leaders in the grocery store market in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. It is currently considering whether it should… Read the rest
Case Type: improve profitability.
Consulting Firm: Cornerstone Research first round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: apparel, clothing, textiles; retail.
Case Interview Question #01072: Your client New Balance Athletic Shoe Inc., best known as simply New Balance, is an American footwear manufacturer based in the Brighton neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts. The company was founded in 1906 as the “New Balance Arch Support Company”… Read the rest
Case Type: pricing & valuation.
Consulting Firm: Cornerstone Research first round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: retail; healthcare: hospital & medical.
Case Interview Question #01073: Target Corporation (NYSE: TGT) is the second-largest discount retailer in the United States, behind Walmart. Headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Target operates more than 1,700 locations throughout the United States as of 2015. Their retail formats include the… Read the rest
Case Type: organizational behavior.
Consulting Firm: AlixPartners first round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: financial services; computers, office equipment.
Case Interview Question #01074: Suppose you work at a large financial services firm (think of Goldman Sachs or Morgan Stanley), which has many divisions: investment banking, private equity, wealth management, asset management, trading, advisory, etc. Each division uses a different brands of computers,… Read the rest
Case Type: estimate or guesstimate.
Consulting Firm: OC&C Strategy Consultants first round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: airlines.
Case Interview Question #01075: LaGuardia Airport (IATA: LGA) is an international airport in the northern part of the New York City borough of Queens in the United States. The airport is on the waterfront of Flushing Bay and Bowery Bay in East Elmhurst and borders… Read the rest
Case Type: improve profitability.
Consulting Firm: Ernst & Young (EY) Advisory 2nd round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: retail.
Case Interview Question #01076: Your client Hammerjack Hardware Corporation is a regional chain of “local hardware stores” located in numerous neighborhood strip malls and shopping centers. Originally founded in 1930s as “Hammerjack’s Stores”, the company saw dramatic growth following World War II, more… Read the rest
Case Type: estimate or guesstimate; math problem.
Consulting Firm: Oliver Wyman first round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: None
Case Interview Question #01077: Are there two dogs in the world with the same number of hairs?
Possible Answers:
None of the common frameworks (Profitability equation, 3C’s, 4P’s, Porter’s Five Forces, etc.) fit this case. After a one-minute silence, the interviewer kindly… Read the rest
Case Type: market sizing.
Consulting Firm: Cornerstone Research first round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: Sports, Leisure & Recreation.
Case Interview Question #01078: The client Sportsman’s Warehouse is an outdoor sporting goods retailer which operates in 18 states across the United States, including Alaska. Sportsman’s Warehouse sells apparel, footwear, and gear which caters to sportsmen and sportswomen with interests in hunting, shooting, reloading,… Read the rest
Case Type: operations strategy, optimization.
Consulting Firm: Simon-Kucher & Partners (SKP) first round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: government, public sector; transportation.
Case Interview Question #01079: Mistelbach is a small town with a population of 10,000 people in rural Austria. A river divides the town. There is only one bridge with two lanes over this river and this is the only crossing… Read the rest
Case Type: math problem.
Consulting Firm: Simon-Kucher & Partners (SKP) first round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: alcohol.
Case Interview Question #01080: You have two identical jars, each with the same amount of wine: jar A with red wine and the other one jar B with white wine. Each one is 100% pure. Now you take a glass and first fill it up… Read the rest
Case Type: operations strategy; organizational behavior, human capital.
Consulting Firm: Huron Consulting Group 2nd round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: telecommunications, network.
Case Interview Question #01225: Our client MTN Group (JSE: MTN )is a multinational mobile telecommunications company headquartered in Johannesburg, South Africa. Operating in many African, European and Asian countries, MTN Group recorded more than 230 million subscribers across its… Read the rest
Case Type: new product, new technology; pricing and valuation.
Consulting Firm: ClearView Healthcare Partners 2nd round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: healthcare: hospital & medical.
Case Interview Question #01226: Down syndrome, also known as trisomy 21, is a genetic disorder caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. It is typically associated with physical growth… Read the rest
Case Type: estimate or guesstimate; math problem.
Consulting Firm: Huron Consulting Group 2nd round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: retail.
Case Interview Question #01227: Our client is 7-Eleven. 7-Eleven is an international chain of convenience stores, headquartered in Irving, Texas, United States that operates, franchises, and licenses some 56,600 stores in 18 countries. The company’s first stores were named “Tote’m Stores” and… Read the rest
Case Type: private equity & investment.
Consulting Firm: American Express first round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: transportation.
Case Interview Question #01228: Venezuela, officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, is a federal republic located on the northern coast of South America. It is bordered by Colombia on the west, Brazil on the south, Guyana on the east, the Dutch Caribbean ABC islands… Read the rest
Case Type: reduce costs.
Consulting Firm: Analysis Group first round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: paper products; manufacturing.
Case Interview Question #01229: Our client NewPage Inc. is a leading paper manufacturing company in North America that specializes in producing different types of paper. The company is headquartered in Miamisburg, Ohio, and owns paper mills in Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin.… Read the rest