Oddball Cases
What are the weirdest cases given to you during the interview process? It seems easy to prepare for the commonplace 'increase profit' 'market entry' or 'new product case.' What else is out there?
What are the weirdest cases given to you during the interview process? It seems easy to prepare for the commonplace 'increase profit' 'market entry' or 'new product case.' What else is out there?
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You meet a friend at a party who is the director of the local employment agency. You tell him that you hate to go there because the lines are always so long. So he gives you the task to analyze ways to decrease the waiting time of the job seakers.
McKinsey
Turned out to be one of the most interesting cases I had during the entire application process
Construct a message from the acquiring firm to send to the employees of the firm being taken over . First part of a two part case.
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