Cases oder auch Fallstudien genannt, sind unternehmerische Problemstellungen, die ein Kandidat in einem Bewerbungsgespräch bei einer Unternehmensberatung vorgelegt bekommt. Die Herausforderung hierbei ist es, den Case unter Druck strukturiert zu lösen.
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ClaimSmart: AI for Next-Gen Health Insurance
Our client is a mid-sized health insurance provider called SureHealth with annual revenues of $2.4 billion. The company has experienced a steady rise in administrative claims processing costs and has seen a recent uptick in fraudulent claims. Senior leadership believes that leveraging AI in the claims assessment process could have significant benefits.
They have allocated a budget of $10 million over the next three years to implement AI solutions, but they are uncertain how to prioritize to reduce fraudulent claims and administrative processing costs.
MBB Second Round - TitanTrail - "Made in the USA" Operations Outsourcing
TitanTrail is a backpack maker that prides itself on quality and a “Made in the USA” promise. But the landscape is shifting. New competitors are entering the market, and labor costs are climbing.
To stay competitive, TitanTrail is exploring a big move: outsourcing production to Cambodia. This decision isn’t simple. It raises critical questions.
MBB First Round - FastFashion - Customer Loyalty
FastFashion is a national retail chain in Australia that sells a variety of different clothing brands for men, women, and children. They are one of four major clothing retail chains in the country.
Five years ago, they introduced a loyalty program. The Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) of FastFashion wants to assess how this program is doing and what FastFashion can do to improve it.
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MBB First Round - StayPro - Consumer Growth Strategy
Your client is StayPro, a San Francisco based technology company that develops and sells wearable and mountable action cameras. StayPro’s CEO believes that the company’s growth has stagnated and has hired you to remedy that issue.
MBB Second Round - Fashion Market Expansion
Our client is Chic & Stitch. They make tailor-made clothes for modern women. They focus on quality and fit. Their work covers design, retail, and tailoring. Now, they want to expand to the Barcelona. They hired you to see if that’s a good idea.
Grocery Wholesaler
GroceryWholesaleCo is a leading international grocery wholesaler that sells, markets, and distributes food products, equipment, and supplies to restaurants, healthcare and educational facilities, lodging establishments, and other customers who prepare meals away from home. Historically, the client was able to ensure sustainable growth; however, profits have plummeted over the last three years.
As a result, GroceryWholesaleCo wants to discover the reasons for this decline in profitability and identify strategies to turn the situation around.
Opportunity Assessment: Alternative Revenue Streams for a Salt Mine
Salty Boy Inc. is an underground salt mine in Texas whose new leadership are supporters of the circular economy. Circular economy provides a pathway towards more sustainable production and consumption patterns – CE introduces circularity to many areas of production cycles and encourages using renewable, regenerative inputs (e.g., energy) and minimizing systematic leakage (e.g., waste).
After decades of extracting salt form the earth, Salty Boy’s new leadership find themselves in possession of a network of empty, temperature and moisture stable tunnels located conveniently near major fiberglass waste sources and logistics networks. As a result, Salty Boy sees the potential for an alternative revenue stream. Their rationale is that they have ample and well-located storage capacities in their tunnels that they could use to position themselves well for an emerging recycling trend that could turn fiberglass waste into an eco-friendly and valuable raw material. Salty Boy is looking for your help to assess this potential opportunity.
Business Strategy: Home Delivery Solution for Retailer Chain
Kadara, a privately-held US retailer active in the Midwest with annual sales of approximately USD 3 bn, is trying to figure out a solution to last-mile home delivery. The company currently operates out of 100 brick-and-mortar stores selling primarily groceries and home essentials (e.g. paper towels, diapers, blenders). They also sell all non-perishable products offered in their stores through their website. Currently, all sales from their website are delivered via 3rd parties (e.g. FedEx, USPS), picking up products from regional distribution centers, and their minimum delivery time is next day. Kadara does not have out-of-store delivery options but they know that services such as Instacart and Postmates are being used by customers to arrange home delivery of groceries. Kadara's management believes that they are, at best, leaving money on the table due to their limited home delivery options and, at worst, at risk of being de-selected by customers as they move towards delivery options.
Kadara’s future CEO, the granddaughter of the founder, has jumped on the chance to move the company into the future. To that end, she has developed a recommendation to Kadara's board to buy Dallas Drone Technologies (DDT). DDT designs, manufactures and operates small-to-midsize flying drones. Their initial models focused on aerial photography but they added goods movement capabilities about two years ago. The future CEO believes that drone delivery is key and that Kadara should buy DDT for USD 100 m to become a leader in the space.
Kadara's current CEO would like your help specifically in evaluating the option to buy DDT and generally in how to think about home delivery and the future of their business.
Commercial Feasibility of Natural Gas Pipeline
A large natural gas field is unexpectedly discovered on the Mediterranean island of Corsica. The gas can be accessed and produced relatively easily and is of good quality. Europe, and especially Germany as the largest gas consumer in the EU, is looking for alternative gas suppliers to reduce its one-sided dependence on Russia. An initial market study has shown that stable demand in Western Europe would allow for around 10 billion cubic meters (bcm) of natural gas per year from the new gas field to be sold on the European market for the next 25 years.
To achieve this, however, the gas must be transported to the important Western European gas hub Baumgarten in Austria. Several large oil and gas companies sense a business opportunity here and are now asking themselves whether it is economically feasible to build a corresponding gas pipeline from Corsica to Austria.
One of these companies has approached you as a consultant to provide your assessment.
Bain Final Round Case - Streaming Services [NEW]
Our client is a large American music company with a 40% market share and $20 billion in revenue. During the last holiday season, the client released fewer new tracks onto music streaming services compared to the year before. We would like you to figure out what could be causing this and possible solutions to the problem.
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Bain 1st Round Case – AirService [NEW]
Our client today is AirService – a service provider for a number of airlines and airports. Their management recently realized a decrease in profits that is linked to increasing costs.
Accordingly, they have engaged our firm to help address this issue. How would you approach this problem?
Options Evaluation: Profitability of Brewing Company Startup
Your client is Alistair, a brew master from the east coast of the United States. He has developed a beer recipe he believes will revolutionize the beer drinking experience in the US. Alistair was able to convince his family and friends to invest in his business idea after letting them taste a sample of his new beer. With the investment money, Alistair founded the Allstar Brewing Company (ABC) and bought himself a mothballed brownfield brewery. This was already one year ago and Alistair has been working on perfecting his recipe since, but he has yet to produce a barrel of beer from the acquired production site. In the meantime, ABC has been approached by two other companies that both submitted a respective offer. Alistair seeks your help in determining the best course of action.
MBB Case - Sierra Springs
Our client is Sierra Springs, a top 3 spring water producer in the U.S. The company owns the entire bottled-water production supply chain, including water sourcing, production of water-based products, bottling and packaging and distribution to retail outlets. Sierra Springs also leads its own brand design, marketing and sales efforts.
Sierra Springs has several brands across still and sparkling water drinks, 3 large bottling plants throughout the country and distribution agreements with most major retailers.
Sierra Springs is evaluating the launch of a new product, a flavored sparkling bottled water called Berry Fizz. The company’s Chief Marketing Office has asked us to help analyze the major factors surrounding the launch of Berry Fizz and its own internal capabilities to support the effort.
Car Convenience (McKinsey)
CLIENT OBJECTIVE
Our client, Convenio, operates micro convenience stores and vending machines across the US and wants to know whether launching a convenience store inside passenger cars is a good way to grow its business.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Convenio's new concept, Moove, is a small transparent box installed in the center console of taxis and private ride-hailing cars. It is stocked with snacks such as gum and chocolate bars, cold drinks, and non-food items such as personal hygiene products and phone chargers. A rider buys an item by scanning a QR code, selecting the product and paying on the Moove platform. The driver receives a confirmation, hands the item to the rider and earns a commission on every sale. Drivers carry a small stock in the trunk and restock at selected points of Convenio's existing supply network. The CEO has asked McKinsey to assess whether Moove is an attractive business in the US and how to set it up for growth.
Market Sizing WITH SOLUTION - Coffee Shop Revenue
Estimate the daily revenue of your nearest coffee shop.
Clarifying information:
- You can pick any coffee shop of your choice
- We would like a “typical” day (i.e. weekday)
- All revenue (all purchases)
Winter Wall Revival: Advising Knight’s Watch Municipality on Public Sector Strategy
Your client is the Knight’s Watch Municipality. Their governor, John Snow, has engaged you, explaining that an evil army composed of White Walkers plans to destroy all of Westeros. He tells you that the Northern Kingdom is the only fortress capable of stopping this force. However, the wall is severely damaged from previous battles. Governor Snow needs our help determining what steps to take in repairing the wall before the White Walkers arrive.
Pedal Pals' Financial Fitness Challenge: Cost Optimization Consultancy
Pedal Pals is an interactive fitness platform with millions of members, offering connected, technology-enabled fitness classes that utilize its proprietary hardware, the Pedal Pal stationary bicycle. Pedal Pals generates strong recurring revenue from its members, who pay subscription fees to access Pedal Pal's Connected Fitness products. Additionally, they have strong sales of the hardware product. Pedal Pals has an admired brand for high quality and sustainability.
Recently the company has been challenged by a large, activist investor. The activist investor is citing the plummeting stock price impacting shareholder returns. The activist has attributed the issue directly to poor cost control throughout Pedal Pals. Pedal Pals CEO has hired your organization to determine how to manage its cost issue.
ProfitWizardry: Maximizing Hogwarts University's Magical Margins
Your client is Hogwarts University. Their President, Dr. Albus Dumbledore, is concerned with the university’s profitability and needs your help in determining the best course of action.
Market Sizing WITH SOLUTION - Number of Taxis
An entrepreneur has come to you looking to disrupt the taxi industry in NYC. They are interested in determining the number of taxis in Manhattan, in order to understand how large their fleet would need to be to compete. How would you go about determining how many taxis exist in Manhattan?
If the candidate asks, you may clarify the following:
- This is pre ride-hailing technology
- That we are looking for total taxis NOT taxis at any given time. We would like an estimate of the size of the fleet
- Manhattan is 1 of 5 boroughs in NYC
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Please make sure to check the video URL solution to get a full explanation and walkthrough of how to solve this market sizing example.
This is one of over a half dozen market sizing examples I have created for you to practice.
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Bain Final Round: Pharmacy Delivery Entry
Our client is a pharmacy in Dubai - called NewWave Pharmacy. This pharmacy wants to start a new & unique delivery service and want to understand if it is a good idea or not? If yes, then how should they price it? And how should they start it?
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