A verified guide to all 45 cases in the 2024-2025 Chicago Booth case book, with the book's evaluation rubric and a worked Army Hotel breakeven teardown.
Updated Jul 19, 2026. Reviewed by Ned.
The packaged Chicago Booth Management Consulting Group case book is the 2024-2025 edition and contains 45 indexed practice cases. Its practical edge is measurement. The book does not only provide prompts and solutions. It tells the interviewer to evaluate a tailored MECE** framework, quick and accurate calculations, exhibit interpretation, evidence-backed synthesis, crisp communication, active case ownership, and confident presentation. The index then labels each case by firm, type, industry, overall difficulty, quant level, and creativity level. That makes Booth useful for candidates who want an analytical practice library and a repeatable scorecard, not another PDF to skim. The right workflow is to run a case cold, score observable behavior, and select the next case from the weakest dimension. The edition and inventory below come directly from the packaged PDF, not from a mirror list. Source: packaged Booth PDF; inspected 2026-07-19.
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What is the Chicago Booth case book and how should you score it?
The 2024-2025 Chicago Booth case book is a 45-case analytical practice library with a detailed evaluation rubric. Score structure, analysis, synthesis, communication, and presentation after each rep, then practice the lowest dimension again. (Source: packaged Booth PDF; inspected 2026-07-19.)
| Booth reference fact | Value | Source and date |
|---|---|---|
| Edition | 2024-2025 | Packaged Booth PDF, inspected 2026-07-19 |
| Practice cases | 45 | Packaged Booth PDF index, inspected 2026-07-19 |
| Difficulty scale | 1 to 3 | Packaged Booth PDF index, inspected 2026-07-19 |
| Evaluation areas | 5 | Packaged Booth PDF rubric, inspected 2026-07-19 |
| Practice-case start | Printed page 69 | Packaged Booth PDF, inspected 2026-07-19 |
What cases are in the Chicago Booth case book?
Each row below follows the PDF index and turns its title, type, and industry into a one-line selection cue. (Source for every row: packaged Booth PDF, index on printed pages 66 to 68; inspected 2026-07-19.)
| Case | What the case asks you to practice |
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| Army Hotel | Price and test a private-equity hotel investment on an army base. |
| Breast Cancer Surgery | Set a revenue-maximizing strategy for a surgical medical device. |
| Burger Palace | Evaluate restaurant market entry with commercial math. |
| Chicken Pox Vaccine | Size a pharmaceutical market with a demanding quant setup. |
| Cleaning Products | Build a consumer-products growth strategy. |
| Coffee and Tea Apparel | Assess a retail and apparel acquisition. |
| Commercial Vehicle OEM in China | Find growth for a commercial-vehicle manufacturer in China. |
| Consumer Products Strategy | Decide how a consumer-products company should enter a market. |
| Contact Lenses | Diagnose profitability in a contact-lens business. |
| Deepwater Inc. | Make an investment decision in the energy industry. |
| Electric Utility | Repair profitability at an electric utility. |
| Elena's Electronics | Diagnose profit in consumer electronics. |
| Finance Co | Build a growth strategy for a financial-services company. |
| French Beauty Co | Redesign an apparel company's operating model. |
| German Telecom | Diagnose profitability in telecommunications. |
| Green Co | Evaluate an investment in retail and leisure. |
| GreenShield Health Insurance | Test entry into a health-insurance market. |
| Hawaiian Smoothies | Evaluate market entry for a food-and-beverage concept. |
| Heavy Attrition | Solve a healthcare organizational-change problem. |
| International Airlines | Diagnose airline profitability. |
| Katrina | Structure a nontraditional nonprofit and education problem. |
| Linda's Great Burgers | Evaluate a restaurant acquisition. |
| Lola Lo's Zoo | Make an entertainment investment decision. |
| Lost Patent | Replace lost pharmaceutical revenue after a patent event. |
| Midwest Machinery Co. | Compare sourcing and outsourcing choices in industrial goods. |
| New Vaccine | Evaluate pharmaceutical market entry. |
| Payments Company | Diagnose profitability in payments. |
| Pharmaceutical Rare Disease | Build a rare-disease growth strategy. |
| Project Gargoyle | Evaluate an investment in hair-care products. |
| PyeongChang Winter Olympics | Make a media and telecom investment decision. |
| Quahog Public Schools | Solve a nontraditional public-education problem. |
| Retirement Apartment Complexes | Evaluate entry into retirement real estate. |
| Skylight Goods | Improve industrial-goods operations. |
| Smart Cards | Build a technology and telecom growth strategy. |
| Student Health Insurance | Grow a student insurance business. |
| Super Jr. Baby Formula | Evaluate a consumer-products investment. |
| Apache Helicopter | Make an industrial-goods investment decision. |
| White Boards | Compare sourcing choices for durable goods. |
| Telco Talks | Evaluate a telecommunications merger. |
| Yarmouth Yachts | Work through legal analysis in luxury retail. |
| Sueno Mattress | Diagnose consumer-products profitability. |
| Cruise Line Acquisition | Test profitability around a travel acquisition. |
| Shoe Co. | Evaluate consumer-products market entry. |
| Craft Co. | Diagnose consumer-products profitability. |
| Telecom Co. | Evaluate telecom market entry with heavy quant. |
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Worked Chicago Booth mini-case: Army Hotel
A private-equity firm can build a 400-room hotel on free land at an army base. At $60 per night, the book calculates about 130,000 potential room nights and $7.8 million in revenue. A four-month capacity shortage removes about 10,000 room nights, reducing annual revenue to $7.2 million. With $4 million in annual operating cost, operating profit is $3.2 million. The comparable construction benchmark is $50,000 per room, so the upfront investment is $20 million. (Source: Army Hotel, printed pages 70 to 74; inspected 2026-07-19.)
Breakeven rule: upfront investment divided by annual operating profit. $20 million / $3.2 million gives roughly 6 to 7 years. The client's target is 4 to 5 years, so the base case fails the investment hurdle. The recommendation is not to invest yet. The risk is missing non-room revenue or cost savings that could shorten breakeven. The next step is to price a restaurant, conferences, and operating-cost reductions before closing the option.
Rubric self-score: award a pass only if you identified the capacity constraint, kept room-night units through the math, compared 6 to 7 years with the stated hurdle, and gave a decision rather than repeating the calculation.
Who should use Booth, and where is it limited?
Booth suits candidates who want analytical breadth, explicit difficulty labels, and a scorecard that a partner can apply consistently. It is particularly useful when feedback such as "math felt shaky" needs to become an observable diagnosis. The book is less efficient for a candidate who has never built a case structure because its large inventory can encourage premature volume. That is an editorial judgment based on the PDF's organization, not a claim about current Booth interviews.
How does CoachNed pair with Booth?
Use the PDF for a full partner-led rep, then use CoachNed for the lowest rubric dimension. The current free window includes 1 full case plus 3 drills per day for 3 days. That free case credit works in voice mode too, so your first voice case costs nothing; beyond it, voice needs Pro, club access, or more credits. Pro is $49 per month and Annual is $249 per year. (Product terms supplied for this build, 2026-07-18.)
McKinseyProfitability · medium
EV Charging Hub Profitability
Energy / Retail
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The Chicago Booth consulting pipeline behind this casebook
Booth's scorecard-heavy casebook reflects a class that recruits into consulting in volume. Per the school's Class of 2025 employment report (via ClearAdmit), 36.7 percent of graduates entered consulting at a $190,000 median base, and the three MBB firms alone accounted for 117 hires. The rubric above is the measurement discipline that pipeline demands: when a third of your classmates compete for the same firm loops, "math felt shaky" has to become an observable, fixable score. See how Booth stacks up against other programs in the best MBA programs for consulting ranking.
| Firm | Booth Class of 2025 hires | Share of the MBB total |
|---|---|---|
| BCG | 52 | 44% |
| McKinsey | 35 | 30% |
| Bain | 30 | 26% |
The 2024-2025 edition worked above is maintained by Booth's own students. The Management Consulting Group is the official home of the casebook, and current Booth students should confirm the latest edition through MCG rather than an outside mirror.
Sources
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Packaged Chicago/Booth_2025.pdf inside coachned-chicago-booth-case-book.zip, inspected 2026-07-19.
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Chicago Booth Management Consulting Group (MCG), the official student club and casebook home (checked July 19, 2026).
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Chicago Booth MBA Class of 2025 Employment Report (via ClearAdmit), for the 36.7% consulting placement, $190,000 median, and firm-level hire counts (checked July 19, 2026).
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Chicago Booth Case Book article brief, dated 2026-07-17.
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CoachNed casebook collection registry and signup-first CTA wrapper, inspected 2026-07-19.
Frequently asked questions
How many cases are in the Chicago Booth case book?
Each row below follows the PDF index and turns its title, type, and industry into a one-line selection cue. (Source for every row: packaged Booth PDF, index on printed pages 66 to 68; inspected 2026-07-19.)
What makes the Booth case book useful?
The 2024-2025 Chicago Booth case book is a 45-case analytical practice library with a detailed evaluation rubric. Score structure, analysis, synthesis, communication, and presentation after each rep, then practice the lowest dimension again. (Source: packaged Booth PDF; inspected 2026-07-19.)
Is the Chicago Booth case book only for advanced candidates?
The 2024-2025 Chicago Booth case book is a 45-case analytical practice library with a detailed evaluation rubric. Score structure, analysis, synthesis, communication, and presentation after each rep, then practice the lowest dimension again. (Source: packaged Booth PDF; inspected 2026-07-19.)
How should I review a Booth practice case?
The 2024-2025 Chicago Booth case book is a 45-case analytical practice library with a detailed evaluation rubric. Score structure, analysis, synthesis, communication, and presentation after each rep, then practice the lowest dimension again. (Source: packaged Booth PDF; inspected 2026-07-19.)