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Case interview prep
Hypothesis-Driven Case Interviews: Bet on a Number, Not an Answer
Interviewers can't hear what you believe, only what you ask for next. How to state, price, and kill a case hypothesis, with a worked example you can redo.
Frameworks
Case Interview Frameworks: Build the Tree, Don't Name It
Interviewers score a structure that fits the prompt. Build drivers, MECE branches, and a hypothesis; treat Porter, 4Ps, and BCG as raw material.
Getting started
Consulting Fit Questions: What Each Prompt Is Scoring
A cross-firm fit question bank: what each prompt scores, the follow-up it invites, and two fully worked spoken answers tied to published firm dimensions.
Case interview prep
Case Interview Exhibits: The Insight Is Never Printed on the Chart
How case writers build exhibits, the five derived numbers that carry the insight, a worked clinic table you can reproduce, and what the scoring sheet rewards.
Case interview prep
Case interview communication: pass the interviewer's 30-second test
Why 'think out loud' gets misread, the 30-second test interviewers run on you, a 120-word close you can time, and one recommendation scored two ways.
Firm guides
BCG Case Practice: Drill the Next-Move Handoff, Not Frameworks
A partner's system for BCG live-case practice: score the next-move handoff, run a timed ferry case with no answer key, and wire each miss to a single drill.
Getting started
What Is a Case Interview? The Interviewer's Definition
From the scoring sheet: what a case interview is, why MBB use it, one full short transcript with notes, the main formats, and a one-week starter plan.
Frameworks
PE Due Diligence Cases: Price the Buy, Name What Flips It
CDD in a case is a timed buy/walk. Bain multiples, academic PE returns, and a worked industrial-filtration deal with the assumption that flips the call.
Frameworks
Operations Cost Cases: Find the Driver That Moves the P&L
Split fixed vs variable, check utilization, then chase the one COGS line that moves EBITDA. Worked example: a corrugator where scrap, not headcount, is the leak.
Firm guides
McKinsey Case Interview: What Each Stage Actually Scores
McKinsey's interviewer-led case is five scored hand-offs, not one continuous debate. Stage-by-stage rewards, a worked HarborCold mini-case, and PEI beside it.
Firm guides
Deloitte Case Interview: Score the Next-Steps Line
Deloitte publishes a five-step case rubric and free practice cases. How interviewers score next steps, what the library trains, and a worked example you can reproduce.
Case interview prep
Case Interview Mistakes: Which Ones Actually Reach the Debrief
How interviewers turn a 25-minute case into a one-sentence verdict, which mistakes make it into that sentence, and a drill to keep yours out of it.