1. What is the mean of "Lesson learned" in case study?

☷ What did you get?
☷ What was going right?
☷ What do you learn from that experience?

2. Am i should expect the unexpected in Case Study interview?

Additional information may be sprung on you so be prepared. Interviewers will be looking to see how you deal with the unexpected as well as how flexible you are with processing last-minute information. Ask if you're unsure about something. Asking clarifying questions such as 'Does that make sense?' to the interviewer, will ensure you're on the right track and shows self-awareness.

3. What is Case Study?

In the social sciences and life sciences, a case study (or case report) is a research method involving a detailed investigation of a single individual or a single organized group, used extensively in clinical psychology and also, though less often, in other branches of the discipline.

4. What types of cases are?

✰ Key cases
✰ Outlier cases
✰ Local knowledge cases

5. Explain about case selection and structure?

An average, or typical, case is often not the richest in information. In clarifying lines of history and causation it is more useful to select subjects that offer an interesting, unusual or particularly revealing set of circumstances. A case selection that is based on representativeness will seldom be able to produce these kinds of insights. When selecting a subject for a case study, researchers will therefore use information-oriented sampling, as opposed to random sampling. Outlier cases (that is, those which are extreme, deviant or atypical) reveal more information than the potentially representative case.

6. Explain case study?

Case studies are analyses of persons, events, decisions, periods, projects, policies, institutions, or other systems that are studied holistically by one or more method. The case that is the subject of the inquiry will be an instance of a class of phenomena that provides an analytical frame - an object - within which the study is conducted and which the case illuminates and explicates.

7. Case study interview questions part 7:

✰ You have been assigned to advise a company with a large Western European market. Company management wants to open the Chinese market. What advice do you have for this company?
✰ The firm has assigned you to consult a company intending to drop a product or expand into new markets in order to increase revenue. What steps would you take to help this company achieve its objective?
✰ You have been assigned to consult a shoe retailer with stores throughout the nation. Since its revenue is dropping, the company has proposed to sell food at its stores. How would you advise this client?

8. Case study interview questions part 6:

✰ How would you work with a subordinate who is under-performing?
✰ You're consulting with a large pharmacy with stores in multiple states. This company has improved sales but experienced a decrease in revenue. As a result, it is contemplating store closings. Explain how you'd advise this client?
✰ You are working directly with a company's management team. It is organizing a project designed to significantly increase revenue. If you were provided with data and asked to supervise the project, what steps would you take to ensure it's successful?
✰ You have been assigned to work with a small company that manufactures a popular product. However, a competitor begins selling a very similar product which incorporates state of the art technology. What would you advise your client to do?

9. Case study interview questions part 5:

✰ In the Chicago subway system there are two escalators for going up but only one for going down to the subway. Why is that?
✰ You find three boxes at the store. One contains onions. Another contains potatoes. The third contains both onions and potatoes. However, all three of the boxes are labeled incorrectly so it's impossible to tell which box contains what. By opening just one box (but without looking in) and removing either a potato or onion, how can you immediate label the contents of all the boxes?
✰ There are 8 bags of wheat, 7 of which weigh the same amount. However, there is one that weighs less than the others. You are given a balance scale used for weighing. In less than three steps, figure out which bag weighs less than the rest?
✰ There are 23 rugby teams playing in a tournament. What is the least number of games that must be played to find a tournament winner?

10. Case study interview questions part 4:

✰ At 3:15, how many degrees there between the two hands of a clock?
✰ A fire fighter has to get to a burning building as quickly as he can. There are three paths that he can take. He can take his fire engine over a large hill (5 miles) at 10 miles per hour. He can take his fire engine through a windy road (7 miles) at 9 miles per hour. Or he can drive his fire engine along a dirt road which is 8 miles at 12 miles per hour. Which way should he choose?
✰ You spend 21 dollars on vegetables at the store. You buy carrots, onions and celery. The celery cost half the cost of the onions. The onions cost have the cost of the carrots. How much did the onions cost?
✰ You spend a third of all the money you have on a piano. Half of your remaining money you use to buy a piano chair. A quarter of the rest of your money you use to buy piano books. What portion of you original money is remaining?
✰ Why are manhole cover always round, instead of square?

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