The new Expanded First Edition of Case Master has arrived, and it is very satisfying to hold the final book after months of work. Our popular volume of practice cases now has a special “Extras” section with additional resources. The… Read More ›
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Book Review for The Ultimate Case Interview Workbook
The Ultimate Case Interview Workbook: Exclusive Cases and Problems for Interviews at Top Consulting Firms is a casebook by Taylor Warfield released in 2018. It is divided into two parts: bite-size questions and plagiarized cases. The first part, “Practice Problems,”… Read More ›
Focus: Inductive vs. Deductive
Consultants reason differently from their clients. Simply put, clients approach decisions inductively: they process empiric data about their business on a daily basis, and based on that data, make observations about what works and what does not. These generalizations—best practices—are… Read More ›
Introducing the Randomizer by Business Mental Math
The author of Business Mental Math, Valentin Nugmanov, has launched a free companion resource, the Business Mental Math Randomizer. This Excel-based practice tool can be downloaded here: casemaster.club/randomizer. The Business Mental Math Randomizer is a cleverly designed collection of practice… Read More ›
Case Master Hits #1 and Gets Copied
First, the big news, which is that Case Master has become a #1 bestseller on Amazon! Thank you to everyone who has purchased a copy, and good luck in your case interviews! Second, we knew that when Doug Clouse agreed… Read More ›
Color Blind No More (Case Master Update III)
When Valentin Nugmanov and I wrote the case “Mind’s Eye,” which revolves around bringing to the market a new lens to help with color blindness, it was meant to be purely fictional. However, since Case Master was published, EnChroma glasses… Read More ›
Blindingly Dumb (Case Master Update II)
Displaying good mental math skills and clever approaches to estimating make consultants really shine, and in Case Master we provide a number of opportunities to practice both of these. In fact, solving the case “Cosmetic Change” requires nailing down believable… Read More ›
Blindspots (Case Master Update I)
I ran across this TEDxVienna talk by magician Kyle Eschen entitled “The art of cognitive blindspots,” and it struck me, because discovering one’s “blindspots” is a major feature of Case Master. The key to solving difficult consulting cases is to… Read More ›
None of Our Business. Update: Amazon Filled with Unsafe Products
So, we have to relate an interesting conversation we had with Amazon the other day. We called to ask what the protocol was when one discovers that a competing book has plagiarized material, is erasing negative reviews, and is using… Read More ›
Another Award for Case Master
Case Master has won Silver in the Business Non-Fiction category of the 2019 Global Ebook Awards, also known as the Dan Poynter Legacy Award. Dan Poynter was an expert skydiver who, through writing about parachuting and skydiving, became an early… Read More ›
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