Case Library
Browse our collection of real consulting case interview scenarios.
Fame Without Trust
A startup behind a viral artificial intelligence generated influencer must choose between scaling monetization, slowing growth to improve trust and compliance, or pivoting into a software product for brands as the initial novelty fades.
Designing Beyond the Interface
An enterprise software company is seeing customers bypass its user interface by using their own artificial intelligence copilots, threatening feature adoption and pricing power. The team must decide who the product should be designed for and how to repackage and price value in an artificial intelligence mediated world.
Escaping the App Gatekeepers
A consumer app company is losing app store visibility as distribution shifts toward direct channels. The team must decide whether to build a direct acquisition engine or double down on platform relationships to restore growth.
The Fractional Loyalty Problem
A business software company discovers that key employees are effectively “licensed” to multiple competing firms at once and must choose a strategy for talent, compensation, and intellectual property protection in a fractional work world.
The Carbon Data Dilemma
A global manufacturer must build product level carbon disclosure capabilities for compliance, then decides whether to monetize the resulting supplier emissions data as a paid analytics product while managing data rights and liability.
The Dealbot Dilemma
A business to business software as a service company with an artificial intelligence negotiation agent must decide whether to standardize automation, sell it as a premium opt-in, or require human oversight, balancing growth upside against legal, compliance, and customer trust constraints.
The Emptying Stands
A pro sports franchise is posting record profits despite years of poor performance, but fan backlash and softening attendance are raising risks to long-term value. The team must choose between a major talent spend, staying profit-first, or a hybrid approach.
Workouts Meet Workday
A premium gym is considering turning underused mid day space into a paid coworking area with a bundled work plus workout membership. You must evaluate the economics and the brand and experience trade offs, and recommend a go forward plan.
The Free Fare Fallout
A mid-sized city that eliminated transit fares is facing rising operating costs, service issues, and a funding gap. The city must decide whether to reinstate fares, implement tiered pricing, or replace fares with alternative funding sources without triggering political blowback.
Too Good to Keep
A high-performing dating app faces a profitability and growth challenge because successful matches drive fast churn. The company must choose between changing the matching experience, adding premium monetization, or expanding into a broader relationship platform while navigating ethical concerns.
Grounded by the Clock
A major airline faces a crew shortage and cancellation crisis after misinterpreting new pilot duty time rules and must stabilize operations quickly while building a durable compliance and workforce planning system.
Rails Under Scrutiny
A newly merged freight railroad must balance antitrust scrutiny and shipper concerns with a credible integration plan to deliver service improvements and merger synergies.
The Recovery Clock
A collapsed digital-asset platforms bankruptcy estate must choose between litigation and settlement options to maximize creditor recovery while managing timing, risk, and stakeholder trade-offs.
Trust After the Settlement
A global cryptocurrency exchange must overhaul compliance and governance after a regulatory settlement, while protecting liquidity and rebuilding user and partner trust. The case centers on which markets and products to prioritize, what capabilities to invest in, and how to execute under legal and reputational constraints.
After the Rescue
A systemically important bank must integrate a rescued rival under regulatory pressure, rapidly de-risk its balance sheet, and deliver cost synergies without destabilizing customer operations.
From Mining to Machines
A cryptocurrency mining company is evaluating whether to repurpose its existing data centers to serve artificial intelligence computing demand. The team must assess the strategy, go to market approach, and operational requirements to make the pivot profitable and lower risk.
Regulated Futures for NexaMind
An enterprise artificial intelligence software provider must decide whether to fund a costly compliance-driven redesign to keep selling in the European Union, or to narrow or exit parts of the region under new regulations.
Synergy Without Disruption
An enterprise technology company must integrate a newly acquired networking firm, resolve portfolio and go to market overlap, and design an execution plan that captures synergies without disrupting customers.
Rules of the Feed
A global social media platform is penalized under new European Union digital content rules and must redesign transparency and moderation processes without undermining engagement or its free expression positioning.
Trust After the Recall
A specialty infant formula manufacturer must contain a high-profile contamination crisis, fix recall execution across retailers, and rebuild trust with parents and regulators without derailing the business.
Hauling Through a Labor Shock
A regional trucking carrier is hit by a regulatory shock that tightens driver supply and raises labor costs. The team must choose a practical path across pricing, network changes, and operational investments to protect margins and service levels.
Redundancy Under Pressure
A software company faces customer churn risk after a cloud outage and must decide whether to invest in redundancy, such as multi-region or multi-cloud, while balancing cost, complexity, and growth priorities.
Rebuild Rush Bottleneck
A regional construction materials distributor faces wildfire-driven logistics disruptions and a sudden demand surge, and must decide how to allocate constrained inventory and delivery capacity while protecting profitability and key accounts.
When the Mail Stops
A national postal service faces recurring labor strikes that are driving customers to private carriers. The client must choose a response that balances labor concessions, financial viability, and long term customer retention.
Peak Season Ground Stop
A major parcel carrier faces a sudden air hub shutdown and industry wide aircraft groundings during peak season. You must craft a practical contingency plan that protects service levels while balancing safety, capacity, and cost.
The Debt Tally
Estimate the total size of household debt in the United States using a transparent, first-principles build and a simple cross check to validate the result.
The Liability Overhang
A large industrial manufacturer must redesign its capital allocation and risk management plan after a major forever chemicals settlement framework, balancing cash commitments, investment needs, and investor expectations under ongoing uncertainty.
Remedies Before the Gavel
Microsoft needs to secure antitrust approval for its acquisition of Activision Blizzard by crafting remedies that address cloud gaming concerns across multiple regulators while preserving the strategic value of the deal.
Racing the Bankruptcy Clock
A crypto exchange bankruptcy estate must decide how to maximize creditor recoveries through asset monetization, cross-border coordination, and a settlement versus litigation strategy. The case centers on choosing a practical recovery playbook under legal, reputational, and timing constraints.
Under the Watchful Regulator
A leading crypto exchange must rebuild anti money laundering and sanctions compliance under strict regulatory oversight while preserving liquidity, user trust, and growth. The case centers on prioritizing controls, governance, and product and geography choices in a high pressure turnaround.
UBS Credit Suisse Integration
A Swiss global bank must integrate a rescued rival while cutting costs, reducing risk, and meeting stricter capital and liquidity expectations. The case centers on choosing integration priorities under intense regulatory and political constraints.
Robotaxi Safety Reset
A robotaxi operator has had its driverless permits suspended in California and must redesign its safety, governance, and communications approach while setting a realistic roadmap under severe cash burn constraints.
Tesla Pricing Strategy
Tesla is reassessing an aggressive price-cut strategy that has supported volume but compressed margins. The case focuses on how to choose the right pricing path while anticipating competitor reactions and protecting long-term profitability and brand strength.
Cyber Outage Response
A cybersecurity software provider triggered a global customer outage after a faulty update and must balance rapid remediation, customer communication, and long-term changes to release governance to restore trust.
JetBlue Growth Reset
JetBlue must redesign its growth plan after its acquisition of Spirit is blocked, deciding how to win customers and improve profitability through organic network, pricing, and cost actions.
Parcel Strike Negotiation Strategy
A national parcel carrier faces high-stakes labor negotiations under the threat of a nationwide strike and must craft a contract package that balances cost, workforce demands, and service reliability.
WeWork Footprint Restructuring
A flexible office space provider in Chapter Eleven must decide how to resize its city and building footprint and renegotiate leases to restore profitability in a hybrid work world.
Adidas Yeezy Inventory Liquidation
Adidas must unwind its remaining Yeezy inventory after ending the partnership, choosing liquidation channels and pricing that protect the Adidas brand while limiting financial downside.
Nike Inventory Reset Strategy
Nike is facing margin pressure as elevated inventory forces higher promotions. The case asks you to recommend a near-term inventory clearing plan and longer-term fixes to demand forecasting and channel management.
Hertz EV Fleet Reset
A car rental company finds that its electric vehicle fleet is underperforming due to depreciation and repair costs, and must decide how to adjust fleet composition to restore profitability.
Bud Light Recovery
A major beer brand suffers a sudden demand shock after a controversial marketing decision and must choose a recovery plan across brand messaging, pricing and promotions, and distributor management.
Boeing Quality and Production Ramp
Boeing must restore manufacturing quality and regulatory confidence while determining how to ramp aircraft production amid supplier constraints and rework. The case focuses on what to fix first and how to set a credible near term production plan.
Holiday Ops Meltdown
After a holiday operational collapse, a leading low-cost airline must pinpoint the root causes and choose a practical path to modernize operations while resetting customer compensation expectations.
Claims System Outage
A national claims and payments platform is recovering from a cyberattack that has disrupted reimbursements across the healthcare system. The case focuses on operational recovery choices and how to structure provider support while strengthening resilience for the future.
Pipeline Ransomware Response
A major United States fuel pipeline operator must manage a ransomware-driven shutdown, restore service under public and regulatory pressure, and choose a practical set of cybersecurity upgrades to prevent recurrence.
Red Sea Rerouting Strategy
A container shipping carrier must redesign routes and service commitments after Red Sea disruptions increase transit time and cost. The team must choose how to protect customer service levels while managing margin, capacity, and knock-on impacts to retailer inventory plans.
The Password Sharing Reckoning
Netflix is tightening password sharing rules and must design pricing, messaging, and enforcement that converts free riders into paying customers without driving cancellations.
Chipotle Trust Rebuild
Chipotle must restore customer trust after food safety issues while expanding digital ordering and delivery. You will recommend a practical plan across operations and marketing that protects unit economics as the business scales.
Target Inventory Reset
Target is stuck with excess discretionary inventory and worsening margins after a demand shift. You will diagnose what went wrong and recommend how to clear stock now while rebuilding a more resilient inventory and replenishment approach.
Clinical Trial Network Expansion
A clinical research access nonprofit has proven an initial network model and must decide how to expand to more sites while sustaining quality, sponsor participation, and funding.
TikTok Divestiture Strategy
TikTok in the United States must choose a divestiture and governance solution that satisfies regulators concerned about data and algorithm control, without collapsing advertiser demand or creator engagement. The case centers on regulatory strategy, deal structuring, and operational separation under severe uncertainty.
Streaming Profit Plan
A famous media company must turn streaming profitable while linear television declines, choosing the right mix of pricing, bundling, advertising, content discipline, and password sharing enforcement to lift profits without driving subscribers away.
Privacy Era Attribution
An independent mobile ad measurement platform is hit by Apple App Tracking Transparency and must redesign attribution and optimization while redefining its competitive position against data rich ecosystems.
Run on Confidence
A fast-growing niche bank is one rumor away from a run. Can you redesign its balance sheet and liquidity defenses before confidence disappears overnight?
Chips or Chaos
When chips are the new currency, every vehicle you build is a bet. Can you choose the right models to prioritize today and redesign the supply chain before the next shock hits?
Hangover After Hype
The pandemic pulled the future forward, then snapped back. Can you help Peloton cut cash burn fast enough without breaking the subscription engine that could save the company?
Starter Dose Squeeze
Demand is sky-high, but the factory floor is the limit. Can you choose the right mix of allocation and expansion before shortages erode trust and momentum?