The Case Interview • What is a case interview? The Case Interview • What specific skills does it assess? • How to prepare for a case interview? • An interactive example. What is a “Case Interview” anyway? The Case Interview Simulation of a business problem. Similar to what our associates encounter every day. Series of open-ended questions. They’re designed to stimulate your conceptual, quantitative, analytical and – most importantly – creative abilities. The Case Interview There are several types of cases. Each is designed to assess different skills. Classic Case The Case Interview • Should an organization add capacity? • How should an organization react to a new competitor? • Should an organization enter/exit a …show more content…
The Case Interview How many subscriptions do we need to sell to break even? Profit (contribution margin) = £25 per subscription Magazine content development = £1 million per year Breakeven = £1 million/£25 = 40,000 subscriptions Given you need 40,000 subscriptions to breakeven, do you move forward? What about marketing costs? The Case Interview Your company has expertise in direct mail solicitation so you decide to use that method to market your new magazine. Each piece of mail costs £0.50. You are able to achieve a 2% response rate. How much does it cost you to sign up a subscriber? Cost per subscriber calculation The Case Interview Cost of mailing/response rate = Cost to sign up one subscriber £0.50/2% = £25 per subscriber Another way to calculate cost per subscriber: Assume you mail offer to 100 people Costs = £50 (£0.50 x 100 people) Responders = 2 (2% of 100) Cost per responder = £50/2 or £25 How will this affect your breakeven calculation? New break even calculation The Case Interview Old contribution margin Marketing costs New contribution margin New contribution margin = £25 - £25 = £0 Ouch! What can we do to make this venture better? Some possible considerations: The
The ABC system shows that the business customers are profitable and the retail customers are not, the opposite of what the original system shows. A manger would try to increase business customers and increase fees for retail customers.
Breakeven Analysis for Product Tylenol Approach 1 - Same price as Tylenol Approach 2a - Cheaper than Tylenol Approach 2b - Cheaper w/lowered trade cost $ $ $ $ Unit Cost (Variable Cost) 0.60 0.60 0.60 0.60 Trade Cost (Selling Price to Retailers) $ 1.69 $ 1.69 $ 1.05 $ 0.70 Fixed Cost (Advertising) 2,000,000 6,000,000 6,000,000 6,000,000 Break-Even Quantity [Fixed Cost/(Trade Cost-Unit Cost)] 1,834,862 5,504,587 13,333,333 60,000,000 Contribution Margin (Unit) 64% 64% 43% 14%
To reposition its water as a premium product, Healthy Spring will require an increase in its advertising and promotion budget of $900 daily. What is the maximum sales loss that Healthy Spring could tolerate before a 20% price increase would fail to increase its net profit? (That is, what is the breakeven sales change, including the incremental fixed cost of the advertising campaign?)
Capital One was founded on the vision Richard Fairbank and Nigel Morris had regarding the potential profitability that could be made from customizing credit card products based. “Capital One now is one of the largest issuers of master card and visa credits in the world.” Recently, due to a new marketing campaign, Capital One predicts an increase in demand for fund loan approval. Based on the current levels of capacity, the loan department will not be able to accomplish their targeted goal of 700 applications per month. Our proposed plan is aimed at accomplishing a higher level of utilization and capacity through modifications on the current loan approval process. Since
The interview of a case manager is designed to give students the chance to create an opportunity of interaction with case management. During the interview, the focus is to establish connection in understanding the purpose of their duty, adapted theory of function, ability to maintain self-poise, intellectual thinking process to maneuver from one case load to another, and demand of the population to whom the service benefits. The interview process provides an overview adjustment to distinguish the relevance between the provider mission statement in contrast with the employee who transforms the vision to concrete, workable possibilities of wonders while helping the client. The reinforcement of speaking live with a case management employee helps to understand the purpose, the process of initiating help, and placing individuals with community resources to help support individual needs.
At breakeven, Q=6,658 paying customers who will be in attendance with an additional .25 x 6,658 = 1,665 comp customers.
Although the financial goal is to create profit, we need to calculate the breakeven point to get started.
5. Determine the necessary sales in unit and dollars to break-even or attain desired profit using the break-even formula.
In our second assumption, instead of using the cost of goods per cases in 1986, we try to use the percentage it counts in the total expenses which is 50.4% and to find the sales needed to break-even. The detail of the calculation is shown in the answer for questions d. The result is that 95,635, a little bit higher than the estimated sales of 90,000.
Based on the Excel Problem of chapter one, if the total capacity for this business is 725 will you stay in it? If you want to stay in it what price you need to obtain a break even point of 725?
6. Breakeven books = 450000/ (24.95-3.5) = 20979. MedNet has to sell 20979 books to make breakeven. I think that this contract will be signed. 1% of monthly visitors will be about 43000
The following overview takes a look at how much the average sales ticket would have to increase to breakeven if the fixed cost remained the same in 2007 as it was in 2006.
While cost is seldom the only criterion used in a make-or-buy decision, simple break-even analysis can be an effective way to quickly surmise the
I. DISCUSSION QUESTIONS, CASE INTRODUCTION AND KEY POINTS Introduction The case covers the introduction of Matt Barrett as CEO of Barclays and the changes he introduced to the organization to maintain its competitive position within the retail financial services industry. In an increasingly competitive environment, Barclays is losing ground due to its lack of data-driven actions and small global presence. The case outlines the actions taken by Barrett to transform some of the key characteristics of Barclays’ corporate structure, and concludes by presenting the challenge he will face in getting management buy-in in order to implement his vision. The key challenges that Barclays
For the purpose of a model break-even, let’s assume that the fixed expenses look as follows: