Guides to the consulting interview
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NUS MBA Consulting Prep and the Class of 2024 Numbers
NUS publishes four employment figures for its MBA Class of 2024 and no consulting split at all. Here is what each covers, what it omits, and how to prepare.
NYU Stern Consulting: Nine Points Lost in Two Years
Consulting fell from 41.9 to 32.8 percent of Stern's class between 2023 and 2025. Campus interviews supply 7.3 percent of accepted offers, internships 60.7.
Oxford Saïd MBA Consulting 2025: 22.2% at £90,746 Mean
Saïd puts consulting at 22.2 percent of jobs reported with a £90,746 mean, then prints the salary spread by region. North America pays 2.9 times Asia.
Rotman Toronto MBA Consulting Recruiting 2025: 15%
Consulting took 15 percent of Rotman Class of 2025 placements in Canadian dollars, and the school's average base sits 26,922 dollars above its median.
Stanford GSB Consulting Recruiting 2025: 11 Percent
Consulting took 11 percent of Stanford GSB Class of 2025 acceptances, and its published pay band ran 17.5 times narrower than the band for the whole class.
UCLA Anderson Consulting Recruiting 2025: 46 Hires
Consulting took 25.6 percent of UCLA Anderson Class of 2025 acceptances, which works out at 46 people, and the report contradicts itself on the real base.
Yale SOM Consulting: One Word, Two Jobs, $60,000 Apart
Yale splits consulting into an external and an internal line and prices them apart. The medians are $190,000 and $130,000 in the same Class of 2024 report.
SCQA Framework 2026: The Order a Partner Listens For
The SCQA order, written on a distributor that lost $7.75M of gross profit, plus the 89-word draft that fits inside the only published 60-second spoken limit.
Segmentation Analysis 2026: Where the Margin Hides
A cleaning contractor at 6.5 percent margin holds a segment losing $1.78M a year. The cut that finds it allocates by site visits rather than by revenue.
The STP Framework 2026: Targeting Sets the Cost Floor
Segmentation, targeting and positioning run through a published pricing case, where the targeted user count moves the cost based price floor by a factor of 8.4.
Strategy& Case Interview 2026: Ten Minutes With a Slide Pack
Strategy& publishes two different case formats in one first round, one of them with a slide pack and ten minutes of reading. Here is what each one asks for.
Structured Thinking 2026: Three Firms, Three Rules
Kearney says do not force a framework, Simon-Kucher says frameworks help, L.E.K. contradicts itself in seven steps. What survives, with worked numbers.
Supply Chain Cases 2026: Costing by Driver, Worked
Oliver Wyman's Urban Grocers case recomputed line by line, the 9.4 percent cost rise that eats a 10 percent volume gain, and the unit label that slips in it.
TMT Cases 2026: Three Letters, Three Opposite Trends
Census data puts software up 14.7 percent and wired telecom down 2.5 percent in one quarter. A TMT prompt is three case types, each with its own denominator.
Unit Economics 2026: The Capacity Step That Breaks It
A coffee roaster at $5.25 of contribution a pound, and the one extra pound past capacity that turns $515,000 of profit into $110,250. Recalculated by hand.
Unstructured Cases 2026: The L.E.K. Airplane Prompt
One firm publishes a case with no business in it and no answer. We count the airplanes, show why the count is 9 or 11, and give the rule that replaces it.
Value Chain Analysis 2026: Four Cost Lines, Four Rates
A published fleet case where a ten percent volume gain costs 9.4 percent more, and where the largest cost line contributes nothing at all to the increase.
Voice Mode: Saying a Whole Case Out Loud, One Take
Speaking removes the revision written practice hides. What the spoken constraint costs you, the nineteen tips one firm prints, and where an AI listener stops.
The VRIO Framework 2026: Pricing the Imitation Lag
Valuable, rare, inimitable, organized. The VRIO framework input that decides the answer is how long imitation takes, and a freight example shows where it flips.
This Site Against a Private Coach: An Honest Split
Where a coach beats any scoring engine, what our grader mechanically does, the arithmetic of our three prices, and the division to run on your coach rate.
When To Use a Framework in 2026: The Switching Signal
L.E.K. tells candidates to stick to their approach and, three steps later, to rethink on new data. The signal that decides, priced on an $18M revenue gap.