Four market entry practice prompts with worked solutions, covering the arithmetic, the exhibit reading and the recommendation each one is designed to test.
Four pricing practice prompts with full arithmetic, covering the break-even volume behind a price change, willingness to pay, tiering and the response of a competitor.
Strategy consulting advises on which direction a business should take; management consulting covers the broader work of making an organisation function, including implementation.
Three supply chain practice prompts with worked solutions, covering inventory and service trade-offs, network design arithmetic and the cost of a single sourcing decision.
The McKinsey 7S Framework examines how seven parts of an organization fit together. Learn the elements, limitations and a practical interview application.
A behavioural interview in consulting asks you to describe things you have actually done, on the premise that past behaviour predicts future behaviour better than stated intent does.
Case maths is the mental arithmetic a case interview requires — estimation, percentages, growth rates and simple financial relationships, done out loud and without a calculator.
Retail cases run on a small set of metrics — sales per square foot, basket size, conversion, inventory turns — and three practice prompts show how each one carries an answer.
A case interview opening is the first two to three minutes in which you restate the problem, confirm the objective, ask clarifying questions and present a structure.