Fundamentals

Fundamentals

Chicago Booth Case Book: Score First, Then Pick

What the Booth MCG casebook is, which case types it covers, how club cases differ from live interviews, and a score-then-select practice protocol.

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Case Interview Recovery: What Interviewers Score After a Mistake

Exact recovery lines for math errors, wrong structures, blanks, and missed exhibits—plus how interviewers score the correction, not the miss.

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Valuation Interview Questions: When Each Method Lies

Core valuation Q&As for consulting and IB: three methods that mislead, EV vs equity with Apple filings, multiples drivers, and WACC intuition.

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Merger Model Questions: Accretion, Goodwill, Cash vs Stock

Worked accretion/dilution, PPA, goodwill, and cash vs stock answers for consulting candidates facing merger math, anchored to real SEC merger filings.

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LBO Model Explained: Paper Math for PE Diligence Cases

Build a five-year paper LBO with IRR and MOIC, then map the three return levers to what PE diligence actually tests. Anchored to Bain and SEC filings.

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LBO Interview Questions: Sources, Uses, IRR, Paper LBO

Worked LBO interview answers for consulting candidates: sources and uses, why leverage lifts equity returns, IRR drivers, and a paper LBO you can redo by hand.

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IB Accounting Questions Cases Actually Probe

Worked three-statement answers for depreciation, working capital, deferred revenue, and EBITDA vs cash—plus which ones a case interviewer will actually ask.

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DCF for Case Interviews: Five Years Plus Terminal Value

Build a case-ready DCF with five-year unlevered cash flows, Damodaran WACC inputs, Gordon growth terminal value, and the sensitivity that moves NPV.

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Operations Case Interviews: Score the Bottleneck Decision

Interviewers score ops cases on constraint logic, OEE math, and capacity ROI—not a memorized framework. Worked bottleneck decision with full numbers.

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Insurance Case Interview: Combined Ratio, Float & Leakage

What interviewers score in insurance cases: combined ratio math, float, retention, and a worked P&C claims-leakage decision with original numbers.

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CPG Case Interview: Volume, Price, Mix, and Trade Spend

How CPG interviewers score volume-price-mix and trade ROI—with P&G, Unilever, and Nestlé metrics, plus a worked cereal promotion mini-case.

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Banking Case Interview: Ratios, Deposit Beta, Branch Math

How interviewers score bank-as-client cases: NIM, deposit beta, cost-to-income, cost of risk, CET1, plus a worked Harborline branch decision.