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Fuqua Casebook 2026: Duke Publishes a 20 to 30 Target

Fuqua casebook, and the number Duke publishes with it: practice 20 to 30 cases with a partner, costed in hours, plus the legitimate ways to get prompts.

2026-09-26 · 11 min
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HBS Case Book: Three Different Things Share the Name

At Harvard, case book means a club interview document, the school's teaching cases, or a second club serving other faculties. Only one is what you want.

2026-09-26 · 11 min
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INSEAD Case Book: The Club Calls It a Revamp Project

The INSEAD club's own page says it aims to revamp the INSEAD Consulting Club Case Book. That sentence is the only public statement any club makes about it.

2026-09-26 · 11 min
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Kellogg Case Book: Its Own Library Says Where It Lives

The Kellogg case book sits in the school's own career library, listed and marked restricted to current students. That page points at nine firms' material.

2026-09-26 · 10 min
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Michigan Ross Case Book: Its Board Signed a Warning

The 2019 Ross casebook opens with a signed letter saying two candidates can have very different conversations about the same problem, and encouraging it.

2026-09-26 · 10 min
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MIT Sloan Case Book: A Club That Admits Its File Exists

The MIT Sloan club writes that members receive a copy of the Sloan Casebook. One of two clubs in this batch to name the document, and it serves no file at all.

2026-09-26 · 9 min
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NYU Stern Case Book: A 2006 Prompt, Recorded in 2016

A Stern case book prompt from 2006 was worked and recorded by Yale's club in 2016, and Kellogg's career library catalogues it. The title carries the year.

2026-09-26 · 9 min
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Yale Case Book: Its Club Practiced Three Rivals' Cases

Four recorded Yale SOM club mock cases credit their source in the title. Three of the four came from the Kellogg, Ross and Stern case books, dated by year.

2026-09-26 · 9 min
skills

Case Interview Cheat Sheet: What Seven Firms Publish

A case interview cheat sheet built from the sixty-five instructions seven firms publish, counted side by side, with the four points where two contradict.

2026-09-26 · 8 min
skills

Case Interview Checklist: From Six Weeks Out to the Close

The 43 cases firms publish take 32 hours at 45 minutes each. One firm publishes a dated calendar. A full checklist built from what firms put in writing.

2026-09-26 · 9 min
case basics

Case Interview Examples 2026: 43 on the Firms' Own Sites

The 43 case interview examples on the firms' own sites, listed, plus BCG's 13 modules hosted elsewhere, and one worked from the firm's published figures.

2026-09-26 · 12 min
skills

Case Interview Fit Questions: Ten That Firms Publish

Ten fit interview questions firms publish: McKinsey prints four themes with a question each, Accenture prints six, and BCG prints what it will never ask.

2026-09-26 · 10 min
math

Case Interview Formulas, With Every Line Recomputed

The eight case interview formulas, each worked on stated inputs and checked by hand, including a published launch breakeven and the one-cent sensitivity.

2026-09-26 · 10 min
math

Case Interview Math 2026: Units, Checks, and Rounding

The operations case math is made of, then the four habits that decide whether the number lands, worked end to end on a route with a factor of two built into it.

2026-09-26 · 10 min
math

Case Interview Math 2026: How to Practice and Get Fast

Case interview math is arithmetic and percentages under time: the topics tested, nine formulas, the shortcuts, six timed exercises with solutions, a plan.

2026-09-26 · 13 min
skills

Case Interview Mistakes: Six a Firm Publishes Itself

BCG publishes six pitfalls, Accenture corrects three myths in print, and one rejected candidate says why he failed. The errors firms name, with the arithmetic.

2026-09-26 · 8 min
skills

The Case Interview Opening Statement, Step by Step

L.E.K. makes paraphrasing step one. Deloitte wants notes taken while the prompt is read. Oliver Wyman wants the structure justified. An opening built from all.

2026-09-26 · 8 min
case basics

Case Interview Prep Guide: The Confirmed Window Is 16 Days

One posting publishes real dates: 39 days from application, 16 from confirmation. Case interview prep plans from there, forty hours against what firms assess.

2026-09-26 · 9 min
skills

Case Interview Pressure: The Published Time Budget

Accenture publishes 45 to 60 minutes with 30 to 45 on the case. BCG Switzerland publishes 45. What the only public clocks say about composure and rehearsal.

2026-09-26 · 8 min
case basics

Case Interview Questions: The Ones Inside a Real Case

A published case carries five questions that escalate. One firm changes its criteria between them. Plus six questions a firm says its strategy work answers.

2026-09-26 · 9 min
skills

Case Interview Synthesis: Answer First, Then Next Step

Deloitte alone publishes a sequence that demands a step after the recommendation. A Kearney analyst says never end on a number. A close, built and timed.

2026-09-26 · 8 min
case basics

Types of Case Interviews: The Only Firm-Named Taxonomy

Accenture names three types of case interviews and says which are common. Oliver Wyman labels difficulty. What the 43 published cases are really about.

2026-09-26 · 10 min
skills

How Case Interviews Are Scored: The Published Evidence

One firm prints criteria under every question of its own case. Two publish a two-tier answer ladder. What that reveals about scoring, and what our weights add.

2026-09-26 · 8 min
profiles

Engineering Consulting Cases 2026: The Second Door

McKinsey publishes a separate assessment for technical roles. One engineering firm publishes a worked case whose own arithmetic has an error we recomputed.

2026-09-26 · 14 min
profiles

Case Interviews in a Second Language 2026: Nine Offices

One firm publishes a language requirement for all nine of its offices and names a level for one. Only two of ten firms say what language an interview runs in.

2026-09-26 · 11 min
firms

CIL Strategy Consultants: Pay, Deadlines, No Published Round

CIL prints analyst pay and a deadline for every office, and publishes no interview stages. Here are the four searches behind that, and what is published.

2026-09-26 · 9 min
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Columbia Case Book: The URL Named Casebook Is Empty

Columbia hosts a page whose filename is casebook.html. It serves the club's home template and no document. We opened it on 30 September 2026 and read it.

2026-09-26 · 9 min
skills

Communicating in a Case Interview: Say the Two Numbers

Bain publishes think aloud and take a pause on the same list. Kearney bans buzzwords by name. What to say out loud, and which numbers actually decide the case.

2026-09-26 · 8 min
screening

Consulting Assessment Center 2026: Who Is Rating You

A consulting assessment center is a day of exercises watched by observers who rate you against an employer competency model. Here is what gets published.

2026-09-26 · 13 min
careers

Consulting Career Path 2026: Which Door Your Degree Opens

There are 1,077,100 management analysts in the US, and the consulting career path the search results describe belongs to a few firms. Which door each opens.

2026-09-26 · 10 min
careers

Consulting Exit Opportunities 2026: The Alumni Job Boards

The Labor Department projects 94,100 openings a year for management analysts, and 88% replace someone who left. Consulting exit opportunities have an address.

2026-09-26 · 12 min
careers

Top Consulting Firms in Germany 2026: Offices and Pay

Nine consulting firms in Germany, the cities each one names on its own site, McKinsey's published headcount per office, and what the postings say about pay.

2026-09-26 · 11 min
careers

Consulting Firms in Dubai 2026: One Gulf Office of Four

Five firms that name a Dubai office themselves, the four Gulf cities they all share, the Emiratisation rule above them, and the pay that nobody publishes.

2026-09-26 · 8 min
careers

Consulting Firms in India 2026: Follow the Audited Offers

Which firms name Indian offices, and what an audited IIM Ahmedabad placement report shows: 156 of 395 accepted offers went to consulting, with pay by sector.

2026-09-26 · 11 min
careers

Dutch Consulting Firms 2026: Grade Floors and Dutch C1

Six firms that name a Dutch office, the grade and language floors two of them publish, the 2026 IND permit thresholds, and what the CBS measured for the branch.

2026-09-26 · 12 min
careers

Top Consulting Firms in Singapore 2026: Offices and Pay

Consulting firms in Singapore 2026: 11 offices named on the firms' own pages, the S$5,600 Employment Pass floor, 40 COMPASS points, official graduate pay.

2026-09-26 · 12 min