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Market Sizing Case Interview Questions

Tom Spencer

Market sizing is the test of a consultant’s mettle. It is a classic case interview question, in which a candidate is asked to make an estimate. A market sizing question literally asks a candidate to estimate the volume or the value of a something. This could be the size of a market or something from left field.

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Mergers & Acquisitions: Strategy

Tom Spencer

MERGERS have had a ubiquitous presence in the news recently as leaders in the airline , publishing , and telecommunications industries have taken steps to consolidate. Clarifying why your client wishes to undertake the acquisition is a good place to begin, both in a case interview and in a real-life consulting engagement.

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Entering a New Market

Tom Spencer

Your client is a low-cost airline headquartered in Philadelphia with frequent service to cities along the East Coast of the United States. Furthermore, this engages you in a conversation with the interviewer as opposed to enduring an uncomfortable silence. What is the size of the market? What is your recommendation?

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Trade, Markets, Tariffs, and Socialism (and Confusion)

Martinka Consulting

France Teaches a Lesson in Free Markets (Wall Street Journal) Charles Koch: Tariffs a ‘Cancer,’ Could Lead to Socialism (Newsmax) The Trade War’s Winners Don’t Include Us (Wall Street Journal). His overall theme was it’s not about size but about openness (of markets). The Koch interview was the shortest article.

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The Trend Is Your “Friend”

CaseInterview.com

You can choose to go “with” the change in market demand or go “against” it. As painful as it might be to adapt to major shifts in market demand, it’s the only sustainable path forward. You can go “against” a change in market demand that you don't like only up until the point where you run out of cash. What is still selling?

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Minto Pyramid Principle

CaseInterview.com

This way I can show the interviewer I am 100% hypothesis driven and I don't ask any irrelevant data. Would you recommend this and what is your view about this as a past interviewer? Example 1: Company A faces profitability issues, please come up with strategies. . Hypothesis 1 – Carlsberg should enter the Italian market.

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Job Hub: Boeing Jobs and Culture

Management Consulted

However, when the war was over, the abundance of used military planes inundated the commercial market and sent many aircraft producing companies into financial tailspins. By adding airmail planes to its fleet, in addition to servicing the rapidly expanding market for commercial airlines, Boeing saw sustained post-war success.

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