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Sample Consulting Case Questions

Tom Spencer

Entering a New Market. A large Korean electronics company is thinking about entering the market for tablet computers. Toyota has invented a car with incredible durability, it can be driven a thousand times further than cars currently on the market before needing to be serviced. Estimate the size of the global market.

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??? Happy New Year: Predictions, Takeaways, and Thank you!

Wakeman Consulting Group: Dave's Blog

I’m not surprised that the struggle to sell tickets in many markets was real. There was too much investment in the “V-shaped” recovery narrative and not enough in looking at what had happened in the market. It isn’t just in college football because MLB’s attendance has been declining since around 2007. You will get branding.

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The Decline of Yahoo in Its Own Words

Harvard Business

On Google’s earnings call for the first quarter of 2006 – more than a year before the iPhone was released and more than two years before the release of the first Android-operated smartphone – CEO Eric Schmidt went out of his way to talk about mobile. In 2011 we were playing a bit of catch-up compared to the market.

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The Mistakes PE Firms Make When They Pick CEOs for Portfolio Companies

Harvard Business

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. What’s more, the demand for rapid growth often comes with a push from investors to enter new markets or ramp up product innovation. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business

Free fall is a crisis of obsolescence and decline that can happen at any point in a company’s life cycle, but most often it affects maturing incumbents whose business model has come under competitive attack from insurgents or is no longer viable in a changing market. Other companies can do the same. Build a Re-Founding Team.

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