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Frameworks for the Case Interview (Part I: Market Study Framework)

Tom Spencer

As I have been asked by quite a lot of people to share some frameworks, I will use the next 3 posts to walk you through the most frequently used frameworks in the case interview. While you are reading those frameworks and related examples, keep in mind that no framework is the skeleton key to all case interviews.

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Case Interviews: When to Be Creative

CaseInterview.com

Question: I have been following your blog at CaseInterview.com and using your video for my case interview practice. I did exactly this in one management consulting interview and got dinged -- the biggest feedback I received was I lacked creativity (which I intentionally suppressed to make sure that I was not jumping around).

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Frameworks for the Case Interview (Part III: Value Chain Framework)

Tom Spencer

For example, a link between procurement and manufacturing, or manufacturing and marketing. The way to analyse links in the value chain is to: Compare the same link in a value chain over time to identify trends, Identify and examine complementarity between one link and others in the same value chain, and. Case Prompts.

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Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: European Car Sales.

MishTalk

Trend Analysis. Minyanville Business and Market News. Case Against The Fed. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. China Financial Markets. EW Trends and Charts. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. European Car Sales Plunge to 20-Year low. Global Economic. Advertisers.

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Big Miss in Retail Sales vs. Expectations; Trend Change or Another

MishTalk

Trend Analysis. Minyanville Business and Market News. Case Against The Fed. Bay Area Real Estate Trends. China Financial Markets. EW Trends and Charts. Market Oracle. Market Ticker. Real Clear Markets. Big Miss in Retail Sales vs. Expectations; Trend Change or Another "Soft Patch"?

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Great Depression 2020? (Part 2)

CaseInterview.com

I made the case (that I still stand by) that a collapse of the consumer banking system (in the 1930s) and the investment banking system (in 2008) would not be reasons why our current economy would go into a depression. I’ve written previously about finding the trends that emerge in a recession and riding them.

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Each Firm's Favorite Cases

CaseInterview.com

A reader sent me an email asking if there was a pattern or trend to what kind of case problems are given by each firm? So, does BCG give M&A questions while McKinsey gives business cases? My answer is the cases you get are all over the place and there's no pattern that I've ever seen or heard about.