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China book publisher
Our client is a Chinese publisher called AnimeCo who is looking to publish a new book based on the popular Anime series Little Panda. This series has been highly popular in China with millions of viewers every day and the publisher is looking to capitalize on this potentially.They have asked us to provide advice on whether this will be a good investment and if they should move forward with it. They want to know the total market size, potential revenue & potential profit.
Hospital's ill finances
A firm managing hospitals has recently been experiencing growing pains. It has contacted our firm to ask for help.
McBurger
A large fast food chain has hired us to improve the company’s profitability by cutting costs. Before engaging in the initial brainstorming session about your client’s options with your team, you first want to collect your thoughts.
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Liquid Energy
Liquid Energy, an Oil & Gas company, is evaluating the purchase of one of three oil fields in Latin America. After purchasing the rights to extract oil from one of these fields, Liquid Energy will outsource the drilling activity. You have been brought in to identify the best investment for Liquid Energy.How would you evaluate the three oil fields, and which oil field should Liquid Energy purchase?
Health Coaches
Our client is a large national health care payer (health insurance company, e.g. Aetna) exploring the launch of a new disease management program to better serve its 5 million members.The idea is to hire and train a team of “Health Coaches” to specialize in a single disease area (e.g., heart disease, diabetes, etc.). Each coach will manage a portfolio of patients to reduce the costs of overall health expenditures (e.g., reminders to take drugs, provide limited medical advice, suggested diet, etc.). Studies show that once a month contact with each patient reduces health spending by 5%, on average.Should our client launch the program? If so, what steps should it take?
American Airlinks
Your client American Airlinks has seen its inflight revenues stagnate for the past 3 years. The CEO offers the possibility of doing a partnership with Balzac Coffee and of selling Balzac Coffee in the future, instead of handing out the current non-brand coffee for free.Advise the CEO if AA should either do this partnership or put a price on the current, non-brand coffee that is currently given out for free.
Startup VS Consulting
Your objective today is to make a decision: you have an offer from a consulting company which will pay you €50.000 per year.On the other hand, you always wanted to create your own startup in your favorite city. What would be the income difference?Please consider your income analysis and explain your decision.
College Football
Our client is a college that plans to add an inter-collegiate football team to its athletic program.They have approached us in order to determine if that is a good idea.
Pickup Manufacturer
The automobile manufacturer CarsCo has difficulties with the profitability of its pick-up unit in Thailand. The candidate is supposed to evaluate the situation by answering a line of questions that are presented in the “suggested approach” section.
Madflix.com
Our client is madflix.com, a website similar to Netflix. The biggest difference is however that Madflix targets mainly men and provides a majority of “mad movies”, such as action, horror, or science-fiction movies.Clients sign up online, order online, receive the movie and mail it back. Madflix is not satisfied with the profit margin, as it has declined over the last two years.The CEO has hired us to recommend a solution.
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21st Century Fox
Our client is a leading TV/film studio. They are concerned about the part of their business that provides post-production services internally as well as externally.The profits of this division have stagnated in the recent time.Your task is to find ways to increase the profitability of the business.
Gambling Business
Poker Inc. is currently operating four casinos in Royal City. Competitors are right now planning to open up a rival casino in Kingsville.Poker Inc. has hired our company in order to assess the consequences of the possible competitor opening and what strategies Poker Inc. should follow.
Military helicopters
Your client is BS Systems, a defence contractor situated in the US.They have contacted our company to advise them in the selection of the location for a new plant, producing Apache helicopters. Three sites are in consideration: Canada, UK and US.The profits for each plant location over the next 5 years should be calculated.
Gravestone Inc.
Your client, Gravestone Inc., is a mason producing gravestones situated in Switzerland. He is producing high-quality, hand-crafted gravestones with very skilled labour-force.In the recent past a technology was developed that would allow him to produce his gravestones with much less labour.He is contacting us to make a decision if he should invest in this new technology and if he even should remain in the business itself.
Eyes Inc.
Your client, Eyes Inc., is a contact lens manufacturer situated in the US. They seek to increase their market share over the next two years and asked our company to for advice.In what way would you approach the problem?
ACR Medical Lab
Your client, ACR, is a chain of medical laboratories. They provide patients with MRI and CT scans as well as other major tests.They have expensive testing equipment in their inventory and run about 250 labs. Usually doctors refer their patients to one of the labs.Because ACR is worried about a decrease in profits, they have hired us to evaluate the market.
Italian Beauty Company
Your client is Italian Beauty Company (IBC), a high quality beauty products company. It is well established in Italy.One of their major product lines is high quality home hair-color kits. They manufacture these products in-house and sell it through retail outlets and drugstores.Recently their market share has declined. Their competitor Cosmetica INT. has also become more popular.IBC would like your firm’s advice.
DairyCo
DairyCo, a mid-sized CPG manufacturer (consumer packaged goods) which sells dairy products (derived from milk), has turned to you to ask for your advice.The firm has been facing declining profits in the last few years and does not know what it should do to change this trend.How would you help them out?
Bus maintenance
Your client, BusCo, is a passenger bus company in Uganda, Africa. Due to the poor road conditions, maintenance plays a very important role in the reliability and quality of BusCo’s services.BusCo outsourced all of its bus maintenance operations to MaintainCo in the last years. However, especially last year, BusCo was very disappointed with the maintenance provided. The bad service caused delays in service as well as trip cancellations.Now BusCo is considering doing its maintenance in-house. However, an investment amortization period of 4 years or less is required.The CEO wants to know from you if they should pursue the in-house maintenance strategy next year?
Spirits distribution
Our client, Ooze, is one of the market leaders in the US spirits market (strong alcohol products).They are thinking of restructuring their distribution strategy and want to know whether they should invest in 1 or 5 distribution centers.What would you recommend?
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