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How do we know in 15 years it's going to break even

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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Hello! Precisely for the high amount of questions (1) asked by my coachees and students and (2) present in this Q&A, I created the “Math & Formulas - Economic and Financial concepts for MBB interviews”, recently ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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How do we get to a break even of ca. 15 years?

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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gab die beste Antwort am 13. Okt. 2021

First of all, you need to review terminology and be more careful on how you present things. What you have there as Profit is something else: it is the cummulative cash flow from year 1 to 5 (-32k). However, there is a m ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Break even calculation

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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the inventory should decrease over time, not stabilize

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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I had a mentor in McKinsey who was saying that perfection is the enemy of done. Same here :) Great that you spotted the mistakes and hopefully the author will correct it. It's indeed virtually impossible to build perfec ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Shouldn't the break-even be achieved in 13th Year?

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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You would be right… if you assume that in year 13 you stop reinvesting in new bottles. But I don't see why you would assume that. So in year 13, while it seems that get to +2.1k positive, please notice that you simultan ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Estimate compounding

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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As quick answer, of course, is great "something a bit more than $200, we can assume $250" (you can say here $240, $230 or anything higher than 200 but lower than 300, use common sense). No interviewer will ever ask y ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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sell kick-start of bottles

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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First year you buy 120 bottles + 6 every month. So that is 120 in the beginning of the year, but 192 at the end of the year.

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Number of bottles kick-start and Wine Investment Appreciation

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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Hi there, To be honest, I agree with you. I just went through this case and a cannot figure it outself myself either. Sometimes they say the kick-start is 170, sometimes 120, and sometimes 192. Sometimes it's better to ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Calculation of number of wine bottles in Year 5

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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This is how the cash flow should look like: This is the cash flow per year. Each bullet number is the year and between parenthesis the accumulated cash flow -13,5k -13,2k (-26,7k) -13,2k (-39,9k) -13,2k (-53,1k) -13,2k ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Selling In Year 5

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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Given that the investment strategy is to hold each bottle of wine for exactly 5 years before selling, they will not sell everything in the inventory immediately at year 5. If we assume that any wine bought is at the en ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Calculation of number of wine bottles in Year 5

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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Hi there, I would be happy to share my thoughts on it: It seems like in the case study, the initial investment is considered to be made in year 0, and as a result, the sale of 120 bottles takes place after 5 years, i.e. ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Graphics and Concluding question

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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Wine has been growing at almost 10% CAGR since 2003. To be at 20% you would need to outperform this benchmark on a consistent basis. That is a very aggressive assumption.

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Wine consumption

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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Hi there, Can you clarify where you are seeing that? The solution clearly states 10 bottles/month and 120/year

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What to solve

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Hi Ida, It's hard to start a case without knowing how it works! I recommend you look at the intro material on Preplounge or videos on how to case, or even hire a coach. This context will help you a lot more than reading ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Key question 1: What will be the size of my cellar (in number of bottles) over time?

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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During a case, you have to ask questions. One of the questions that is relevant here is for how long do you hold the bottles before selling them.The interviewer would tell you it would be exactly 5 years, as per questio ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Diagram 2: What happens between year 5 and 6

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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In year 6, you sell both the 120 bottles you bought as initial investment (that's 30k revenue) and the 72 bottles you bought for sale during that year (18k revenue). So you are actually selling 192 bottles for $48k. T ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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The business model of wine cellar is difficult to come up

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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When you have a business you don't understand/know much about, you should directly ask “what's their business model? How to they make money?” as a clarification question.You are not being asked to guess the business mod ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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economics of the cellar

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Hi Francesco, Can you clarify where you're getting 120 bottles from? The text as I see it says the following: “Thus at the end of year one, I should have 120+72=192 bottles in the investment section or 242 bottles in th ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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Why do you take the 12000$ and 600$?

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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I agree with Denis. Importantly, for every case we have to be clear about the objective, the maximization criteria (client goals or 2nd objective in a sense), and the constraints. Here, we have: Objective/Maximiza ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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why he sell the kick start bottles?

Oliver Wyman case: Setting up a Wine Cellar

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Hi, I'm sorry but your question is very confusing. The case specifically states: "You have the kick-start of $13,500 and then only costs for the first 5 years. After 5 years, you sell the kick-start of 120 investmen ... (ganze Antwort lesen)

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