WHARTON CONSULTING CLUB
CASEBOOK
September 2009, © Wharton Consulting Club
Contents
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Section
Page #
Introduction
3
Consulting Industry Guide
6
Industry Overview
Firm Overviews (10 Firms)
Interview Preparation
18
Interview Overview – Fit + Case
Sample Frameworks
Industry Snapshots
Practice Cases
50
14 Practice Cases
Links to Other Cases
Cases from Firm Websites
Suggested Cases from other Casebooks
126
Note to the reader
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Dear Consulting Club Member,
This casebook is meant to provide you with a brief overview of consulting recruiting
and interview preparation as well as a number of practice cases. Please note that this
is meant to supplement the excellent work done by our and other schools in earlier
casebooks, so we strongly encourage you to not make this your sole reference. We have
indicated which other casebooks we found particularly useful at different points in this
casebook.
Good luck!
- 2009 Wharton Consulting Casebook Editorial Team
BIG PICTURE: CONSULTING RECRUITING INVOLVES
LOTS OF LITTLE THINGS… THERE IS NO SILVER BULLET
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Your objective
What resources you will need to use
• Is consulting what you want to do?
• Which firm do you want to join?
• Why do you want to join a certain
firm?
• Connect the dots (pre-MBA to MBA
to consulting)
• MBACM industry chats
• Firm websites / Vault / WetFeet
• Coffee chats
• EISes
• Second Years / First Years from firms
• Speakers on campus
• Get invited to interview (prepare
good resume and cover letter)
• MBACM resume review
• Resumania
• Second Years (at least 2 reviews)
Interview:
Fit
• Demonstrate ‘fit’
- Leadership
- Team-player
- Well-rounded personality
• Prep ‘Fit’ questions thoroughly
• MBACM mock interviews
• Interviews with Second Years
• Read WSJ, Economist… something
Interview:
Cases
• Ace Cases
• Case books & Industry Primer Series!
• Core courses
• Practice extensively...