These slides provide a short overview and some tips on how to tackle case interview. This kind of knowledge is relevant for everyone who want to pursue a career in management consulting. The contents of the slides are based on the book 'Case in Point' by Marc P. Consentino.

1. Case Interview
Practice Session
Welcome to Session #1
Hult Consulting Club – Boston Campus
Tobias Enders January 27 2013

2. getting started with your case: now!
Summarize Verify
Ask Lay out
Listen
Confidence
Sort Out
Main Objective
Hidden Objectives
Identify Case
Company
Industry
Competition
Product
Create Structure
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* Source: Consentino (2011), pp. 32-33

3. Written case questions: what you should know.
Format Tasks
Additional Challenges Charts
5 pages (3+2)
20-30 minutes
Individual/Group
Summarize
Interpret
Conclude
120 page reading
PPT slides
Identify form
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* Source: Consentino (2011), pp. 22-25
Determine comparison
Summarize message

4. most common mistakes
Leno / Letterman syndrome
What was the question again?
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Explosion of the mouth
Digression
The bull in the consulting China shop
Asking open-ended questions
* Source: Consentino (2011), pp. 26-27
Silence

5. warm up
How many bottles of French wine were imported
into the US last year?
You only have at your disposal a four-minute hourglass and
a seven-minute hourglass.
How can you measure exactly nine minutes without the process
taking longer than nine minutes?
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6. case discussion
Today’s case
Test Prep
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7. Thank You
Contact
Tobias Enders
Twitter: @TobEnders
LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/tobiasenders
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8. Backup Slides
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9. additional exercises
How many gas stations are there in the US?
How much does an Airbus A380 weigh?
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