Updated May 2026 · By Florian Smeritschnig, Former McKinsey Senior Consultant The best free MBA casebooks for case interview practice in 2026 are the Yale Graduate Consulting Club 2024, MIT Sloan 2020, and Kellogg 2020 casebooks — but only 16 of the 47 casebooks circulating online are worth deep practice. The rest are outdated, repetitive,…
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Last Updated on June 30, 2026, Florian Smeritschnig, former McKinsey Consultant A competitive strategy case interview (also called a competitive response case) tests your ability to determine how a company should react to changes in its competitive environment. Typical prompts include: At first glance, these look like a defined “case type.” They are not. Competitive…
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A non-profit or public sector case interview asks how to reach a social goal, like cutting youth unemployment or raising vaccination rates, within a fixed budget rather than how to make a profit. There is no profit line, no obvious metric, and no standard framework. You define the measure of success yourself, then structure around…
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Updated July 2026 · By Florian Smeritschnig, Former McKinsey Senior Consultant A turnaround or restructuring case interview asks you to diagnose a struggling business and recommend how to fix it, usually under real time pressure. Typical prompts include: At first glance these look like one defined “case type.” They are not. Turnaround cases are objective-driven…
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Updated July 2026 · By Florian Smeritschnig, Former McKinsey Senior Consultant A wildcard case is an ambiguous, multi-layered business problem that does not fit any of the standard case types you studied. There is no profitability formula to reach for, no market-entry checklist, no clean bucket. And these cases are no longer the exception. If…
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