Guides to the consulting interview
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Market Entry Case Framework 2026: Breakeven Before Entry
A market entry case framework worked in kilowatt hours, against the three incompatible breakeven bars McKinsey, Bain and Oliver Wyman publish themselves.
Cambridge Judge MBA 2025: 19% Consulting, Two Ways
Cambridge Judge puts consulting at 19 percent on one page and 14 percent on another, both citing the same report. Its dollar salary is a PPP figure, not a rate.
McKinsey 7S Framework 2026: All Seven, and the 21 Pairs
The McKinsey 7S framework in full: all seven elements defined, the hard and soft split, the 21 pairs a diagnosis actually tests, and one soft lever priced.
MECE in 2026: Who Invented It, And What Overlap Costs
Barbara Minto says she coined the acronym and credits Aristotle with the logic. Eight published definitions of it, and the $1.36M one overlap concealed.
Non-Profit Cases 2026: Cost Per Beneficiary, Worked
McKinsey publishes a case whose client is a foundation. We work the benefit to 546 million pesos, then show why overhead ratio ranks two charities backwards.
OC&C Case Interview 2026: Nine Different Processes, One Firm
OC&C prints its six London hiring steps in the job advert, and a different process for every other office. The steps, the salary, and the four case interviews.
The PEI and Fit Workbook, Printed Out on This Page
Four themes one firm publishes with its own questions, seven competencies another reviews against, fourteen signals, and a story bank worksheet you can fill in.
The PESTLE Analysis 2026: Put a Price on Each Letter
Six external headings and one test that sorts them. A device importer where the legal line is worth 7.5 points of price and the economic line six times less.
Pharma Cases 2026: Doses, Patients and the Net Price
ZS's published SINHA pricing case recomputed, where price is quoted per dose, the payer counts patients, and the factor between the two units is twenty six.
Porter's Five Forces Case Interview 2026: Which Branch Pays
A Porter's five forces case interview branch costs twenty seconds. A published dairy case shows when it cannot pick, and three prompts where it decides.
Private Equity Cases 2026: Does the Asking Price Hold
Oliver Wyman's published dairy farm diligence, computed to the dollar, then priced over a five year hold to find the multiple a fund can actually pay.
Product Launch Case Interview 2026: Cannibalization
The product launch case interview branch candidates drop is a subtraction, and here it costs $5.32 million. The rate that kills the launch is 52.6 percent.
Public Sector Cases 2026: Cost Per Unit Of Output, Worked
A public agency has no price lever, so the metric is cost per unit delivered. Worked from the IRS Data Book: 70 dollars a filing and 56 cents per 100 collected.
Putnam Associates Case Interview 2026: The Firm Behind It
Putnam Associates is now a team inside Inizio Ignite, and its old domain redirects there. The seat it hires, what it never publishes, and a worked pharma case.
Case Math Drills: What Each of Our Four Weights Buys
Our math rubric puts Answer 40, Working 25, Units 15 and Interpretation 20. Here is how each point is won, and a firm's own break-even recomputed twice.
Real Estate Cases 2026: The Cap Rate Does the Work
Deloitte's 45,000 square foot warehouse case valued three ways, why 100 basis points of cap rate matches a 10 percent rent rise, and what lease expiry costs.
Restructuring Cases 2026: The Thirteen Week Cash View
A weekly cash view where the average runway says 16 weeks and the real wall is week 10, plus the filing data showing liquidation outnumbers reorganization.
Retail Case Interview 2026: Three Ratios, One Call
An apparel chain case worked to the unit: markdown mix priced at 15 million dollars, the Census stock benchmark, and the sell-through the recommendation needs.
Revenue Decline Cases 2026: Market First, Then Price
An $18 million fall splits into a $62.4 million price gain, a $70 million volume loss and a $10.4 million cross term. The decomposition nobody writes out.
Revenue Growth Cases 2026: Three Levers, Three Prices
Ten percent on customers, frequency and price each adds $18.72 million of revenue at wildly different cost. The arithmetic that ranks them, worked by hand.
ROI and Payback Period in Consulting Case Interviews
A published firm case asks for both, computes only payback, and rejects a profitable venture. We finish the arithmetic and show where the two disagree.
Roland Berger Case Interview 2026: Two Cases It Filmed
Roland Berger publishes its steps, an online test that gates them, and two cases on video. What the firm states, what varies by office, and what it never says.
Berkeley Haas Consulting Recruiting 2025: Two Bases
Consulting took 27 percent of the Haas Class of 2025. The offer rate and the salary sit on different populations, and the school prints both footnotes.
Chicago Booth Consulting Recruiting: 172 Hires in 2025
Booth publishes its consulting placement twice, by industry and by function, and the two disagree by five hires. The base salary column spans $157,000.
CEIBS MBA 2026 Consulting Placement: What 97 Reported
CEIBS publishes its MBA2026 career report in full. Six of the 55 accepted offers went into consulting, and here is every denominator sitting behind that number.
Columbia MBA Consulting: 62 Hires at Each of Two Firms
BCG and McKinsey both took 62 Columbia graduates in 2025, one with 51 new hires and the other with 36. Columbia prints both columns, and the gap is sponsorship.
Cornell Johnson Consulting Recruiting 2025: 28 Percent
Consulting took 28 percent of the Cornell Johnson Class of 2025, and the school reports a class average base sitting 16,574 dollars below its own median.
Dartmouth Tuck Consulting Recruiting 2025: 41 Percent
Consulting took 41 percent of the Tuck Class of 2025, the highest share in this set of schools, and Tuck names the exact population behind every dollar.
Duke Fuqua MBA Consulting Recruiting 2025: 34 Percent
Consulting took 34 percent of Duke Fuqua Class of 2025 acceptances, and the report's employer list has 106 names that its own caption cannot describe.
HEC Paris MBA 2025: Consulting Fell From 25% to 15%
HEC publishes a French MBA entirely in dollars with no exchange rate named. We rebuild the rate from its own figures and read the 25 to 15 percent drop.
IE Business School MBA 2026: No Placement Data Found
We tried seven routes to IE's MBA placement figures and found nothing newer than 2013. Here is what IE does publish, and what to ask its careers office.
IESE MBA 2025: Consulting at 48% and 42% at the Same Time
IESE publishes the highest consulting share in our corpus and no salary at all. Its own page carries two consulting figures for one class, six points apart.
IMD MBA 2024: 20% Consulting, 30% Stay in Switzerland
IMD's newest career statistics cover the class of 2024. Consulting reads 20 percent by function and 15 by sector, and the salary is a PPP dollar figure.
Ivey MBA 2025 Employment Report: The Consulting Rows
Ivey prints four different consulting percentages in one report, and each counts something else. Here is what 12, 24, 14 and 26 percent actually measure.
Kellogg Consulting: 38 Percent, Measured at Six Months
Kellogg reports 90 percent placement at six months while its peers report at three. Consulting took 38 percent, with base salary from $67,113 to $210,000.
MIT Sloan Consulting: BCG 21, McKinsey 17, Bain 10
Sloan prints hire counts next to each employer. Three consulting firms took 48 of 289 job seekers in the Class of 2024, and the school publishes the arithmetic.