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title: Management Consulting & Case Interviews
description: Management consulting solves strategic problems for organisations. You will learn structured problem solving, the main frameworks, case-interview preparation and what the work and career path actually involve.
category: business-entrepreneurship
subcategory: business-fundamentals
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/management-consulting
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# Management Consulting & Case Interviews

Management consulting solves strategic problems for organisations. You will learn structured problem solving, the main frameworks, case-interview preparation and what the work and career path actually involve.

## Available Resources

4 Books • 1 Websites

## Books

### 1. The McKinsey Way

**Author:** Ethan M. Rasiel

Rasiel's short insider account of how McKinsey teams work: MECE structuring, hypothesis-first analysis, the 80/20 rule, client interviewing, brainstorming, chart-driven presentations, and the day-to-day realities of research, travel and team life inside the firm.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0070534489?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** management-consulting, mckinsey, problem-solving, mece, business-communication

### 2. The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking (3rd edition)

**Author:** Barbara Minto

Minto's method, developed at McKinsey, for ordering ideas so the conclusion comes first and supporting arguments group beneath it. Covers logical grouping, inductive versus deductive reasoning, and converting structured analysis into documents and slides. The definitive text on the communication half of consulting.

**Difficulty:** Advanced | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0273710516?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** pyramid-principle, business-writing, structured-thinking, management-consulting, logical-reasoning

### 3. Bulletproof Problem Solving: The One Skill That Changes Everything

**Author:** Charles Conn and Robert McLean

Conn and McLean set out a seven-step problem-solving process - define, disaggregate into logic trees, prioritise, workplan, analyse, synthesise, communicate - worked through roughly thirty cases spanning business strategy, public policy and personal decisions.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1119553024?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** problem-solving, logic-trees, structured-thinking, management-consulting, hypothesis-driven-analysis

### 4. Case Interview Secrets: A Former McKinsey Interviewer Reveals How to Get Multiple Job Offers in Consulting

**Author:** Victor Cheng

Cheng, a former McKinsey interviewer, explains what interviewers are actually scoring: hypothesis-driven problem solving, how judgements form in the opening minutes, and the recurring failure modes that end interviews. Argues against rote framework retrieval.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0984183523?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** case-interviews, management-consulting, consulting-recruiting, hypothesis-driven-analysis, mckinsey

## Youtubes

### 1. Crafting Cases (YouTube channel)

**Author:** Bruno Nogueira and Julio Chan

Video channel from two ex-McKinsey and ex-Bain consultants teaching case structuring by building issue trees from first principles instead of memorising frameworks, with worked examples, diagnoses of common structuring errors, and full case walkthroughs. It teaches the generative skill (decomposing a problem into a custom logic tree) that the firms actually score, rather than the framework lists that MBB interviewers penalise.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://www.youtube.com/@CraftingCases/videos

**Tags:** case-interviews, issue-trees, case-structuring, management-consulting

## Websites

### 1. BCG Case Interview Preparation: Interactive Practice Cases

BCG's official prep page with three interactive browser-based cases - setting a corporate climate target, restoring a digital bank's customer satisfaction, and evaluating a cloud migration - plus the firm's stated do's and don'ts on how candidates are assessed.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://careers.bcg.com/global/en/case-interview-preparation

**Tags:** case-interviews, bcg, management-consulting, interview-preparation, practice-cases

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