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 ›
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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 ›
An Antiquities Binge-Watching Guide
Alternate title: A Romer-Egypt Rabbit Hole. If you’re a fan of documentaries about archaeology (and not ones with a bunch of cheap re-enactments by amateur actors but lots of views of actual sites and artifacts), then these recent uploads to… Read More ›
Book Review for The Case Interview Workbook
The Case Interview Workbook: 60 Case Questions for Management Consulting with Solutions is a casebook by “Robert Mellon” released in 2018. In the Introduction the author rightfully observes the lack of quality preparation cases in the market, which provides the motivation… 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 ›
Can Anyone Find Egypt?
Count us as fans of the UK quiz show, Richard Osman’s House of Games, which we enjoy in part because of the entertainingly insane answers sometimes given by the contestants, as we have written about before. One of the games… Read More ›
Limitless Design
In a new post on their website, The Graphics Office tells the story of designing a museum exhibition―with a catalog!―during a pandemic and on a budget. Access to the exhibition space was limited, and there wasn’t the budget to produce… Read More ›
New Website for Ray Komai
The Graphics Office has built a new online resource about Ray Komai’s cover designs for the magazine Architectural Forum: raykomai.org. This beautiful website was created using Quire, a beta set of applications from the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. The… Read More ›
Battling Paid Reviews and Ratings on Amazon
We’ve known for a while that competitors on Amazon are paying for reviews. It’s obvious when a mostly plagiarized and poorly edited book gets hundreds of 5-star reviews, many of which have the same wording. With Amazon’s introduction of ratings―where… Read More ›
From the Ground Up ― Now Available!
Our new title―From the Ground Up: Peters Valley School of Craft by Elizabeth Essner―is now available at Amazon in paperback and e-book editions. Packed with detailed information about the fifty-year history of the Peters Valley School of Craft and lushly… Read More ›