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Comparisons
Case Interview Tools Compared by Job, Not Brand
Map PrepLounge, RocketBlocks, Management Consulted, coaches, and CoachNed to the five jobs the interview sheet actually grades—then buy one missing job.
Case interview prep
Stop Counting Cases: How Interviewers Want You to Practice
Why stacking full cases stalls your score, how to match a 45-minute firm clock, and a two-week practice ledger that closes one leak at a time.
Case interview prep
Case Interview Synthesis: Answer the Question You Were Asked
How to close a case interview: turn the prompt into a one-sentence decision, budget 150 words, add one number, one risk, one next step. Worked example, scored.
Frameworks
Profitability Cases: Isolate the One Driver That Moved
Profit is revenue minus cost. The interview is won by killing every branch but one, with mix, fixed vs variable, and real 10-K margin structures as anchors.
Frameworks
Pricing Cases: Elasticity Math and Three Lenses
Score pricing cases on volume you can lose at a given margin. Worked example, published elasticities, and cost–competitor–value with numbers.
Frameworks
MECE Is a Partition Test, Not a Slogan You Announce
Trace MECE to Minto, run exclusive and exhaustive tests with counterexamples, dodge the MECE-but-useless trap, and repair a leaky tree.
Firm guides
BCG Case Interview: Drive the Next Five Minutes
BCG live cases reward exhibit choice and mid-case ownership, not polished frameworks. A worked solar-install math example and how scoring actually works.
Math and quant
Mental Math in Case Interviews: Setup, Units, Then the Number
Mental math in cases is an out-loud setup with units, not speed for its own sake. Worked example: hospital occupancy, ALOS, and annual admissions.
Firm guides
McKinsey PEI Format: Dimensions, Probing, and Scoring
What the McKinsey Personal Experience Interview actually is: the four published dimensions, how one story is probed for 10–15 minutes, and how interviewers score it.
Frameworks
Market Sizing Step by Step: Two Paths That Must Reconcile
One full US QSR market size, top-down and bottom-up with Census and BLS anchors. How interviewers score assumptions, not the final dollar figure.
Frameworks
Market Entry Cases: Go/No-Go, Mode, and Payback
Interviewers score market entry as a go/no-go with a build, buy, or partner choice and a payback. Worked example ends in a priced recommendation.
Getting started
Duke Fuqua MBA Consulting Recruiting Guide (2026)
Duke Fuqua MBA consulting recruiting guide for 2026: timing, target firms, prep sequencing, and the best free resources to use.