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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Thoma Bravo – Citect Corporation (HBS 9-209-022) Study Questions 1. Do you think TB or Schneider would create more value as the owner of Citect? 2. TB would assume what risks if they are the winning bidder? 3. Should TB continue to bid on Citect and at what price? Are the expected ROIs and IRRs to TB sufficient at your revised bid amount? (* note: a detailed evaluation model will be constructed during the class session *) Study Questions 1. Is Newell just another conglomerate? How
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Although Skilling was the one at the forefront when the Enron ship began to sink‚ the presence of many strong players all competing for individual power within the organization attributed to Enron’s downfall. Although Skilling came in fresh out of HBS ready to aggressively hit the ground running‚ it seems as higher management at the time‚ namely Lay‚ did not have the foresight to control
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Haley Ankenbauer Gucci Case Summary Robert Polet became CEO for Gucci in 2004 after spending the last 26 years of his life at one of the largest consumer goods companies‚ eventually becoming the president of the ice cream and frozen foods division. In 2008‚ shoppers were starting to feel the pain of the recent credit crunch crisis. Polet thought about improving Gucci’s CRM system because of his past experience and how much potential a good CRM system can have. Gucci created a corporate group of
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1. How would you evaluate the capital budgeting method used historically by AES? What’s good and bad about it? Historically‚ the AES capital budgeting method primarily used the following assumptions: • All nonrecourse debt was regarded as good • Dividend cash flow were considered equally risky • Project was evaluated by the equity discount rate for the dividends from the project • A 12% discount rate was applied to all projects. The historical method is quite simplistic
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Case 9 1. Central problem of the case Bavaria NV is a very successful Dutch beer brewery‚ operating in 120 countries is the world. Improving their promotion skills. 2. SWOT Strengths - Bavaria NV is a family company‚ the success formula will be passed through and not been changed. - Bavaria NV is around since 1719‚ their target group is well-known. Also changes within the target group has been experienced‚ therefore the company has a advantage of the target group. Weaknesses - 120 countries
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PROFILE Gucci is an Italian fashion and leather goods label. It was founded by Guccio Gucci (1881 - 1953) in Florence in 1921. Gucci is considered one of the most famous‚ prestigious‚ and easily recognizable fashion brands in the world.French HYPERLINK "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gucci" l "cite_note-1" o "" �� Gucci belongs to the conglomerate company Pinault-Printemps-Redoute (PPR). Gucci is the second biggest-selling fashion brand after Louis Vuitton-Moet Henessy (LVMH). Most importantly Gucci is
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Silic Case Report Title of case analysis: Case Silic Date: 2013/11/17 Summary: The Council of Ministers of the European Union approved regulation on applying IFRS for all companies‚ so Silic‚ a France-based investment property company‚ also faces the substantial impact on their accounting standards‚ needs to choose between historical-cost or fair-value accounting to report its investment properties according to IAS 40. Silic was a major and historical player on the French commercial-property
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Gucci was founded by Guccio Gucci in the early 1920s. As an immigrant in Paris and then London‚ Guccio made a living working in luxurious hotels and was impressed with the affluent luggage he saw the guests carrying. Inspired particularly by the elevated lifestyle he witnessed in the Savoy Hotel in London‚ on his return to Italy he decided to merge this refined style of living with the exclusive skills of his native craftsmen. Specifically he utilised the skills of local Tuscan artisans. He began
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