1)  A European iron mining company bought a piece of land in Australia with a high content of iron. Should they proceed with extraction of the ore or not?

2)  A PC manufacturer wants to add a new line of pocket PCs. Should they do it? What do you tell the CEO?

3)  A health and fitness center, a chain of gyms, like Bally's is considering building more tennis courts. The cost of the land development is 2.5 million for 10 tennis courts per gym. Determine if the gym would break even if they charged an additional fee of $7 per game.

4)  Our client is Burger King. Their growth has been slower than expected. They want to know why? And estimate for me the size of the hamburger market.

5)  Tell me the annual revenues of a company you're following?

6)  The law has recently changed. Consumers can now switch cell companies and keep their phone numbers. What are the effects of this legislation? What is the cost of this legislation? And can you recommend any options

for the cell phone companies?

7)  A healthcare company that sells to individuals and small businesses has seen growth in the last 5 years, but this last year there has been a decline. What is going on? What sort of incentive system do we have and what

kind can we create? (There were a number of graphs and charts that the student had to review

8)  You and your colleagues are McKinsey partners trying to decide which nonprofit to help. Your goals are doubling their revenue and improving their management. Each participant has information the others don't have.

Which one should you pick? [what criteria to use, etc.

9)  Our client is a travel agency in NYC which employs 25 people. They have seen their commissions cut from 10% to 8%. They are wondering what strategy they should adopt to increase their profits, and what else they

should do to remain profitable and grow their business?

10)  "First, I would say that globally, the cases had a bit of a different felt to them than many I had worked on.  All three were business cases, however, in two of the three, there was less opportunity to structure the

cases——the questioners asked specific questions about data that they presented to me a bit at a time—usually in graphic format.  In two out of my three cases, there were multiple graphs and charts that built on one another.

     Conclusions drawn from the first graph were applied to graphs presented later in the same interview.  Also, when I analyzed the data, I was usually given a ratio or series of ratios that I needed to calculate.  At the beginning of each graph/data series, the interviewer would explain the significance of each of the ratios I was to calculate.  When I finished calculating them, he asked me to explain what the results meant. To be honest, the ratios may have been quite common, but they were new to me."