Case Interview Question #00285: There is this taxi driver in Mumbai, India who wants to increase his revenue

and profits. The driver is the owner of the taxi and operates during the day time. The taxi driverstarts his day at one of the Mumbai Suburban Railway stations and works for 10-12 hours daily. How would you go about analyzing this case Case Interview Question #00276: Clients Goal: To determine how to improve its financial situation. Our client is Magna Health, a health care company in the Midwest. It both insures patients and provides health care services. Employers pay a fixed premium to Magna for each of their employees in return for which Magna covers all necessary health services of the employee (ranging from physician care, and medications to hospitalization). Magna currently has 300,000 patients enrolled in its plan. It has 300 salaried physician employees who provide a broad range of services to patients in 6 centers. These physicians represent a wide range of specialty areas, but not all areas. When a patient needs medical treatment in a specialty area not covered by a Magna physician, they are referred outside of the Magna network for care, and Magna pays all referral costs on a fee-for-service basis. Magna does not own any hospitals itself, instead contracting services from several local hospitals. Magnas CEO has retained McKinsey to help determine what is causing the declining profitability and how Magna might fix it

Case Interview Question #00263: Your universitys campus food service (think University of Chicagos Hutchinson Commons food court as an example) is losing money. What is the problem? Case Interview Question #00292: How many spikes are there on the back of a hedgehog? Case Interview Question #00290: How many songs are stored on iPods in the United Kingdom (UK)? How many people fly in and out of John F. Kennedy International Airport (IATA: JFK) everyday? how many per year? Case Interview Questions #00133: Estimate the number of gas stations in the city of Chicago. Case Interview Question #00233: Your client Harlequin Enterprises Limited is a Toronto, Ontario-based publishing company owned by the Torstar Corporation (TSX: TS.B), the largest newspaper publisher in Canada. Harlequin Enterprises is the worlds leading publisher of series romance and womens fiction with approximately 120 new titles published each month in 29 different languages in 107 international markets on six continents. Harlequin Enterprises sell its romance novels directly to bookstores. Typically, the company reimburses its customers at the end of the year for any unsold inventory. Now, one of Harlequins customers, a large retail bookstore, has come to it with an offer for a deal. In return for a 10% discount on wholesale prices, the bookstore will no longer send back any books at the end of the year. Should Harlequin do the deal or not? Why? Additional Information: (to be provided to you if asked) Romance novel sales have been flat for a decade, and sales are expected to remain so in the coming years. Harlequins clients have to sell books at a price they dictate, no cheaper.

In 2008, Harlequin sold 10,000 books to this retail bookstore. At the end of the year, the bookstore sent back 20% of its books to Harlequin. It costs Harlequin $5 on average to make a single book, and Harlequin previously sold books to the bookstore at $10. Harlequins Salvage Value for unsold books = 0. Note to interviewer: Have the interviewee explain how he/she will estimate/guess at a figure of how many books the bookstore will order this year, then give the projected number of 7500. MSRP of books is not relevant in this case.

Case Interview Question #00268: You work at the corporate strategy group of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO), an internet company headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. Best known for its web portal, search engine (Yahoo! Search), Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, advertising, online mapping (Yahoo! Maps), video sharing (Yahoo! Video), and social media websites and services, Yahoo! is one of the largest websites in the United States. Recently, your companys UK division Yahoo!UK has developed an online darts game that has been a breakout hit in the UK. Encouraged by the increasingly growing popularity of this darts game in the UK, your management wants to see if you can replicate the success in the US. What things should you consider in applying this technology to the US market Case Interview Question #00284: The client Wilson Sporting Goods is a manufacturer of sports equipment and supplies based in Chicago, Illinois. Currently with greater than $550 million / year in sales, the client is a foreign subsidiary of the Finnish company Amer Sports. Wilson Sporting Goods has just purchased a mid-sized,struggling sports magazine Sports Illustrated with roughly $15 million / year in sales for the purpose of gaining access to its subscriber list for direct marketing purposes. A recent state legislation, however, has forbidden the use of the subscriber list for such a purpose. The CEO of Wilson Sporting Goods has hired you as an external consultant and asked for your help deciding what to do with this company. What avenues would you pursue, what information would you look for, and what suggestions would you make? Additional Information: The client Wilson Sporting Goods currently sells primarily to retail chains. They are trying to start a direct marketing business, because margins are roughly twice what they are selling retail businesses The magazine Sports Illustrated sells primarily through subscriptions, with a subscription list of roughly 350,000 subscribers. Possible Answers: