Intermediate Challenges
Real-world scenarios at the intermediate level. Earn verified credentials as you practice the work your degree prepares you for.
- StrategyIntermediateNew
Leading a Post-Merger Cultural Integration
Your task is to develop a comprehensive cultural integration plan. You must analyze the cultural differences using a recognized framework (e.g., Hofstede, Cameron & Quinn), prop…
- Cultural Analysis
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Communication
Leadership - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Optimizing Portfolio for a Swiss Fintech Startup
Your task is to design a diversified portfolio of up to 8 ETFs from a provided universe of 10, maximizing the Sharpe ratio. You must present a clear rationale for your asset sel…
- Portfolio Optimization
- Modern Portfolio Theory
- Sharpe Ratio
Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management - CodeIntermediateNew
Deploy SDN-Based Network Slicing for a Telco Operator
Receive the current transport architecture (P4-programmable switches, ONOS controller cluster), the 3 customer-class SLAs (consumer: best-effort 50 Mbps; enterprise IoT: 5 Mbps …
- Sdn
- Onos
- Mininet
Advanced Computer Networks - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Business Model Innovation for a Traditional Bookstore Chain
Your task is to research and analyze three business model options for PageTurners. For each, assess market potential, required investment, and alignment with core competencies. …
- Business Model Canvas
- Market Research
- Financial Analysis
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- CodeIntermediateNew
Designing a Dynamic Pricing Engine for a Ride-Hailing Startup
Your team is given a dataset of historical rides (timestamp, pickup location zone, demand level, available drivers). You must design a pricing algorithm that: (1) uses a multipl…
- Python Or Javascript
- Pandas
- Simulation
Programming for Business Applications - CodeIntermediateNew
Apply the Mikado Method to Untangle a Tax-Engine Class
Starting from the live codebase (Java 17, 73 percent line coverage), write a failing test that asserts the desired end state ('TaxCalculator is decomposed into per-country strat…
- Mikado Method
- Refactoring
- Strategy Pattern
Refactoring and Code Smell Detection - CodeIntermediateNew
Plan Inventory Replenishment as an MDP for an E-Commerce AI Startup
You receive 18 months of daily demand for 50 representative SKUs at one warehouse plus lead-time and unit-cost data. For one SKU at a time, formulate an MDP with state = (on-han…
- Mdp Modeling
- Value Iteration
- Dynamic Programming
Decision Making Under Uncertainty - ResearchIntermediateNew
QLoRA Fine-Tune for a Customer-Support Domain Assistant
You receive 8,000 anonymized support ticket pairs (question -> agent response), the company's product documentation (around 600 pages), and a strong RAG baseline already running…
- Qlora
- Fine Tuning
- RAG Architectures
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Pricing Strategist
Set the price that captures value without leaving sales on the table. Demand modelling, willingness-to-pay research, and the disciplined experimentation that turns pricing into a competitive advantage.
- ResearchIntermediateNew
Sim-to-Real Domain Randomization for a Mobile Robot
You receive an Isaac Sim navigation environment, a baseline trained policy, a 50-episode real-bench test set (recorded sensor streams + ground truth) for offline policy evaluati…
- Domain Randomization
- Sim To Real
- Robot Navigation
Robot Learning - CodeIntermediateNew
Design a Force-Controlled Polishing Skill for a Watchmaker
You receive simulated polishing trajectories from the manufacturer's robot, force-sensor logs from 20 master-craftsman demonstrations, and a quality-rubric (mirror finish 1-5) f…
- Impedance Control
- Force Control
- Manipulation
Robotics - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Penetration-Test the TLS Configuration of an Edge Fleet
Receive read-only access to a 50-node representative sample (anonymized). Scan with testssl.sh + Qualys SSL Labs (where reachable) + a custom Go tool you write to test specific …
- Tls
- Applied Cryptography
- Penetration Testing
Applied Cryptography - DesignIntermediateNew
FMEA for SaaS Platform Migration at a 40-Person Scale-Up
You are provided with a system architecture overview and a list of potential failure modes from the engineering team. Your task is to complete an FMEA worksheet: identify failur…
- Fmea
- Risk Assessment
- Mitigation Strategy
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- StrategyIntermediateNew
Tax Planning for a SaaS Scale-Up's Enterprise Transition
Students are given CloudSync's financials: €5M ARR, 70% from PLG (monthly subscriptions) and 30% from enterprise (annual contracts). The transition will shift to 50% enterprise …
- Revenue Recognition
- Transfer Pricing
- Rd Tax Credits
Business Taxation - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Trade Policy Impact on a Coffee Roaster's Supply Chain
You are a supply chain analyst. Calculate the additional cost per kg of coffee under CBAM using estimated carbon footprints. Evaluate alternative sourcing from countries with lo…
- Trade Policy Analysis
- Supply Chain Management
- Carbon Footprint Estimation
International Economics - CodeIntermediateNew
Apply Differential Privacy to a HealthTech Analytics Dashboard
Wrap the existing analytics layer with OpenDP (or Google's differential-privacy library). Implement epsilon-delta accounting: per-query Laplace noise for counts and sums, Gaussi…
- Differential Privacy
- Privacy Budget
- Python Or Javascript
Privacy-Enhancing Technologies - DesignIntermediateNew
Rebuilding Team Dynamics in a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up
Your team will conduct a team dynamics assessment using Tuckman's stages and Lencioni's five dysfunctions model. You will analyze survey data (provided) and propose a structured…
- Team Dynamics
- Conflict Resolution
- Organizational Development
Organizational Behavior - CodeIntermediateNew
Debug a Race Condition in a Real-Time Collaboration Service
Build a deterministic load-test harness (k6 or Playwright) that reproduces the corruption within 3 attempts on a clean local stack. Capture traces with OpenTelemetry to localize…
- Debugging
- Concurrency
- Load Testing
Software Construction - StrategyIntermediateNew
Develop a Competence Development Program for a SaaS Scale-Up
Design a competence development program for the scale-up. Identify key competencies needed for the enterprise shift, propose learning interventions (e.g., workshops, mentoring, …
- Competence Development
- Learning Program Design
- Skills Gap Analysis
New Work and Future of Work - ResearchIntermediateNew
Hands-on Lab: Reproduce a Recent SOTA Vision Paper
Pick one of three pre-approved 2025 papers (offered by the supervisor) with a known reference codebase you may consult but not copy. Re-implement the model and training loop in …
- Pytorch Or Tensorflow
- Paper Reproduction
- Experimental Design
AI/ML Practicum and Hands-on Lab - CodeIntermediateNew
Scene-Graph Generation for Retail Shelf Audits
You receive 1,500 labeled shelf photos (anonymized product crops, bounding boxes, and ~12 relation types). Build a pipeline that, for a new shelf photo, outputs (a) detected pro…
- Scene Graph Generation
- Object Detection
- Relation Prediction
Visual Intelligence and Visual Reasoning - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Application Portfolio Rationalization at a Global Bank
Receive a CMDB extract of 412 applications with cost, technology stack, business owner, and usage telemetry (anonymized). Score each application on business value (revenue contr…
- Portfolio Rationalization
- It Governance
- Cost Analysis
IT Management and Governance - CodeIntermediateNew
Ship an MVP RAG Knowledge Assistant for a Climate-Tech Startup
As a 4-person team across a 6-week sprint, ship: (1) an ingestion pipeline for around 4,000 mixed PDFs and markdown files; (2) a vector store with documented chunking strategy; …
- RAG Architectures
- Software Engineering For Ai
- Vector Databases
AI Software Engineering Group Project - CodeIntermediateNew
Prototype a Computer-Vision QA Tool for a Robotics Manufacturer
As a 4-person team, build: (1) a labeling pipeline on around 2,000 component images (Label Studio is fine); (2) a transfer-learned classifier or a small segmentation model that …
- Computer Vision
- Transfer Learning
- Model Deployment
AI Software Engineering Group Project - ResearchIntermediateNew
Annual Report Teardown: Zalando vs. ASOS for an Equity Note
Download the latest annual reports for Zalando SE and ASOS plc from their investor relations pages and build a side-by-side analysis covering: (1) structure and quality of the i…
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Ratio Analysis
- IFRS Interpretation
Financial Accounting
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