Case interview practice: 38 free cases

BrewNorth Coffee

candidate-led · easy to medium · ~30 min

Our client is BrewNorth, a chain of 120 company-owned coffee shops across Canada.

HaloRide × Glidepath Driverless Pilot

candidate-led · medium · ~30 min

Your client is HaloRide, one of the two major US rideshare platforms.

OvenLine Snacks

candidate-led · easy · ~25 min

Our client is OvenLine Snacks, a national U.S. manufacturer of packaged baked snacks, oat bars and boxed crackers sold through grocery chains.

Statefield University Football

interviewer-led · hard · ~45 min

Your client is Statefield University, a public university with 20,000 students on the edge of a 1.5-million-person metro in the football-obsessed American South.

Redwood Blood Services Profitability

candidate-led · medium · ~30 min

Our client is Redwood Blood Services, a nonprofit blood bank operating across a five-state region.

Meridian Ports: Port Alpha Downtime Diagnostic

candidate-led · medium · ~30 min

Meridian Ports operates four city ports and charges customers a per-ton handling fee, not a per-ship fee.

Veltra Pharma: Clarion launch

interviewer-led · medium · ~30 min

Our client is Veltra Pharma, a US-based pharmaceutical company that has developed a preventative treatment for chronic migraines called Clarion.

Hearth & Bean

interviewer-led · medium · ~30 min

Our client is Hearth & Bean, a publicly traded café-bakery chain, about 1,200 sit-down locations across the US, full table service, three dayparts.

Crustline Pizza Co.

interviewer-led · medium · ~30 min

Your client is Crustline Pizza Co., a Chicago-based deep-dish chain expanding outside its home market for the first time.

Alpine Nutrition US Market Entry

interviewer-led · hard · ~40 min

Our client is Alpine Nutrition, a roughly $4 billion European nutrition company with strong share across the EU.

TransNova Coaches PE Market Sizing

candidate-led · medium · ~30 min

Our client is a pan-regional private-equity fund evaluating an acquisition of TransNova Coaches, a bus manufacturer based in the country of Sundara.

SaltWorks / Kernel & Co

candidate-led · easy to medium · ~30 min

Our client is SaltWorks, a US snack-food company and the market leader in pretzels.

AeroLink–Coral Isle Merger

interviewer-led · medium · ~35 min

Your client is AeroLink Group, a major US airline based on the East Coast.

Pearl Resorts

interviewer-led · hard · ~40 min

Our client, Pearl Resorts, owns and operates three luxury island resorts.

Chai Social × Roast Collective

candidate-led · medium · ~30 min

Our client is Chai Social, a fast-growing chain of spiced-tea and snack cafés with about 300 corporate-owned locations concentrated in dense urban neighborhoods.

Prairie Biofuels Capacity Build

interviewer-led · medium · ~25 min

Your client is Prairie Biofuels, a large midwestern producer of the fuel additives blended into gasoline.

Apex Financial Acquires Horizon Card

candidate-led · medium · ~30 min

Apex Financial is a large US credit-card issuer weighing an acquisition of Horizon Card, a mid-size issuer.

TerraSteel

candidate-led · hard · ~30 min

Our client is TerraSteel, a large rebar and structural-steel manufacturer in Vietnam, with about $1.6B in revenue.

Willow Diner Co.

candidate-led · medium · ~35 min

Your client owns Willow Diner Co., a single-location breakfast-and-brunch diner in Portland, Oregon, open since 1978 and known for its sourdough pancakes and biscuits & gravy.

Tempo Fitness Monetization & Data-Access Curveball

candidate-led · hard · ~35 min

Tempo is a social fitness-tracking app used by runners and cyclists to log workouts, share routes, and follow friends' activity.

NovaBank Digital Bank Growth Strategy

candidate-led · hard · ~35 min

Our client is NovaBank, a digital-only retail bank operating in Marisol, a mid-sized city-state.

Stonebridge Medical Pathology Integration

interviewer-led · medium · ~35 min

Our client is Stonebridge Health, a 12-hospital system operating across four US Midwest states.

Cornerline Convenience Turnaround

candidate-led · medium · ~35 min

Your client is Cornerline, a convenience-store chain in the US with 240 stores, all located in the Greater Ashford metro area.

Marquee North Cinemas Pricing

candidate-led · medium · ~35 min

Our client is Marquee North, the leading cinema chain in the upper Great Lakes region, with 44 locations and roughly 55% regional market share.

Solmar Bank Digital Transformation

candidate-led · medium · ~35 min

Our client is the head of distribution at Solmar Bank, one of the largest retail banks in Alveria, a southern European country on the Iberian coast.

Maison Vela Luxury E-Commerce Acquisition

interviewer-led · medium · ~35 min

Your client is Corvano Group, a European multinational apparel company with about $18B in annual revenue.

Crown City Cricket Franchise Acquisition

candidate-led · medium · ~35 min

Our client is Aldervane Capital, a US-based private equity fund.

Northern Plains Fox Recovery

candidate-led · medium · ~35 min

Our client is the Grassland Conservation Alliance, a government-affiliated wildlife nonprofit in the northern grasslands of Solenne.

CrediPonte SME Lending Marketplace Entry

candidate-led · medium to hard · ~35 min

Our client is CrediPonte, a profitable Latin American fintech built on digital payments and electronic invoicing for small businesses.

RollGuard Industrial PE Due Diligence

candidate-led · hard · ~35 min

Our client is Copperline Equity Partners, a mid-market private equity fund.

Crestline Freight

candidate-led · medium · ~35 min

Your client is Crestline Freight, a large trucking and logistics company that hauls freight across all of North America.

Coldchain DC

interviewer-led · medium · ~32 min

You get a call from the CEO of Coldchain DC, a large temperature-controlled grocery distribution center that ships refrigerated and frozen goods to 80 regional grocery stores.

PakRight Cups

candidate-led · easy to medium · ~25 min

Our client is the CEO of PakRight, a US manufacturer of paper cups supplied to coffee chains and quick-service restaurants.

Orchard Gate Cider

interviewer-led · medium · ~30 min

Our client makes hard cider. They've been at it for over 60 years, started as a craft orchard brand, now a mid-sized national player.

VitaTube Diagnostics

candidate-led · medium · ~30 min

Our client is VitaTube, one of two manufacturers of blood-collection tubes for US laboratories, the market is a duopoly.

Continental Parcel: The Customer Becoming a Competitor

candidate-led · medium · ~35 min

Our client, Continental Parcel Service (CPS), is a national parcel carrier.

Ironhaul Machinery Tariff Response

candidate-led · medium · ~35 min

Ironhaul Machinery is a US heavy-equipment manufacturer. New tariffs have hit the imported components it uses to build its products, and about 40% of Ironhaul's manufacturing footprint is now US-exposed to these tariffs, versus an industry average of roughly 2

Northgate Rovers FC

candidate-led · medium · ~30 min

Quick note before we start: this is a human capital case, so it may not fit a traditional case structure, keep it conversational and show me how you're thinking.