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Fundamentals
Consulting Fit Resources: Rank Firm Pages First
A ranked list of consulting behavioral and PEI resources: firm fit pages, Big Four competency frameworks, and structured-interview research before any simulator.
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Ten Case Splits: MECE vs Broken Side by Side
Compare ten common case interview splits MECE versus broken, learn the five ways trees usually fail, and run a 60-second self-check before you speak.
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Yale Case Book: Cost-Per-Outcome Practice, Not Profit Clones
What the Yale Graduate Consulting Club casebook is, where official Yale OCS guidance lives, and how to train cost-per-outcome reasoning interviewers reward.
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NYU Stern Case Book: Finance and Media as Case Fuel
What the Stern MCA casebook is, why its finance and media overlays matter for banking- and TMT-style prompts, and how to practice without pirated PDFs.
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MIT Sloan Case Book: Train on Quantitative Exhibits
How to use the MIT Sloan Management Consulting Club casebook as an exhibit gym: ops and tech math, a worked scoring drill, and where the book actually lives.
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Kellogg Case Book: Train Volume-Price-Mix First
How to use the Kellogg Consulting Club casebook well: official access, CPG-style prompts, and a volume-price-mix drill interviewers actually score.
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HBS Case Book: Train Interviewer-Led Pacing, Not PDF Collecting
What the HBS student-club casebook is (and is not), why no public host exists, and how to use club cases to practice interviewer-led pacing.
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Darden Case Book: Score the Run Before the Key
Use the Darden Consulting Club casebook as a scoring mill: a five-row interviewer sheet, a worked self-grade, and when to open aids after the debrief.
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Case Presentation Playbook: Slides to a Partner Panel
How to open, handle interruptions, defend a number, and land a so-what per slide when you present a written case to partners.
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Group Case and Inbox Day: Two Clocks, One Score Sheet
Playbooks for the group case and the e-tray: what assessors write down, a talk-time budget, inbox triage under a clock, and one worked example each.
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Written Case Playbook: The Slide a Partner Can Act On
A 60–90 minute written-case plan, slide skeleton, and worked example scored the way BCG, Bain, Strategy&, and Big Four assessors actually read.
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Columbia Case Book: Build a Cross-School Rotation
What the CBS MCA casebook is, which case types it covers, how club cases differ from live interviews, and a multi-school rotation protocol.