Management Consulting Club Case Interview Guide Harvard Business School Management Consulting Club Case Interview Guide Cases contributed by Management Consulting Club and consulting companies. Note: Case guide is strictly for the use of current HBS Management Consulting Club members. No part of this document may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic‚ mechanical‚ photocopying‚ recording‚ or otherwise—without the permission of HBS Management Consulting Club
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Chad Ogle MGMT 620 HBS Case 9 Starbucks: Delivering Customer Service History In 1971‚ Starbucks started as a small coffee shop which targeted a specialized market of coffee purists. Howard Schultz‚ who later owned the company and initiated the high growth period‚ joined Starbucks’ marketing team in 1982. Main concept of Schultz marketing strategy was too make Starbucks “America’s third place” considering home and work the two other places where Americans spend
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high‚ with high demands for quality and innovation among the high end companies and high marketing costs. Relative to other companies in the Outdoor Apparel Industry‚ Patagonia is performing extremely well. Across most key metrics (Exhibit 1 from case)‚ from Gross Profit Margin to Return on Equity‚ Patagonia outperforms its peers. Perhaps more impressively‚ Patagonia was able to achieve a high level of Net Income Growth (20.8%) while only achieving 1.6% 12-Month Revenue Growth. The driving strategy
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Case Report | Creating Sustainable Competitive AdvantageWall Mart | | | 1. Background 2.1. Retail Discount Merchandise (wide variety) National Market B2C Retail Discount Merchandise (wide variety) National Market B2C Market Discount Merchandise (wide variety) National Market B2C Discount Merchandise (wide variety) National Market B2C Merchandise (wide variety) National Market B2C Merchandise (wide variety)
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Why did LTCM have difficulty raising its level of risk? What is Value at Risk‚ and what role did it play in the LTCM failure? In September 1997‚ the Fund had an annualized standard deviation of approximately 10.7%‚ which was significantly lower than the Fund’s long-run goal of 20% annualized standard deviation. There are several reasons to explain why LTCM had difficulties in raising its level of risk. LTCM structured the majority of its trades in a way that required minimal initial outlay
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2010 [Type text] Emerging Company Finance FNCE 480 - Final Frank Kurupacheril [TRENDSETTER’S TWO ROADS] Trendsetter‚ Inc – a warehouse and distribution solution software company for clothing retailers is faced with the usual dilemma. They are running out of seed money that the founders contributed. Now they have received two term sheets from prospective VC’s. The ball is in the founders’ court who have to choose one after weighing pros and the cons. Contents Introduction .
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MarketLine Case Study Google Inc. The world’s leading Internet search engine Reference Code: ML00001-091 Publication Date: March 2012 WWW.MARKETLINE.COM MARKETLINE. THIS PROFILE IS A LICENSED PRODUCT AND IS NOT TO BE PHOTOCOPIED GOOGLE INC. CASE STUDY ML00001-091 © MARKETLINE THIS PROFILE IS A LICENSED PRODUCT AND IS NOT TO BE PHOTOCOPIED MLCS2011-000/Published 03/2012 Page | 1 OVERVIEW Catalyst Google Inc. was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. By 2000 it had become
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HBS CASE: THE FASHION CHANNEL Answers by Chenghao Zheng (Chuck) 1. What insight do you get from the consumer and market data? TFC’s revenue for 2006: $310.6 million ($80 million from affiliate fees and $230.6 million from ad sales) Strength: the only network dedicated exclusively to fashion‚ with up-to-date and entertaining information broadcast 24/7 Weakness: no detailed segmentation‚ branding‚ or positioning strategy According to customer analysis: there are four groups of customers‚ Fashionistas
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March 21‚ 2012 GOOGLE CASE STUDY Google is well known to everyone. No matter if you are young or not so young‚ computer savvy or not‚ Google’s name will undoubtedly pop up in when discussing computers. Google continues to grow swiftly every day. It began in 1996 with the meeting of Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford. Larry‚ who was 22 at the time had graduated from University of Michigan and was considering attending Stanford. Sergey‚ who was 21‚ was assigned the task of showing Larry around
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History And Background Of Google Inc Business Essay ukessays.com /essays/business/history-and-background-of-google-inc-business-essay.php Google Inc. began in 1996 as the brainchild of two bright computer science grad students‚ Sergey Brin and Larry Page. They met back in 1995 at Stanford University where they were doing their PhDs and they came out with creative ways of finding and organizing large datasets (Hoover’s Inc‚ 2010). After that‚ they developed a technology called PageRank which enables
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