Beginner Challenges
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- StrategyBeginnerNew
Design a Weekly Dynamic Pricing Strategy for GlowVienna
Design a weekly dynamic pricing strategy for GlowVienna's flagship serum that the team could realistically operate. Ground your work in the three materials provided: the histori…
- Pricing Strategy
- Demand Forecasting
- Data Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Revamping Loyalty for a Mexico City D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are hired as a marketing analyst. Analyze Brillo Natural's existing customer data (provided in a simulated dataset) to identify purchase patterns and decision triggers. Prop…
- Consumer Psychology
- Segmentation
- Loyalty Program Design
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Exploit and Remediate Eight Web Flaws on a FinTech Practice Range
Using the eight challenge specifications in the provided challenge specification brief and the representative Rails module in the provided vulnerable application source bundle (…
- Web Security
- OWASP Top 10
- Penetration Testing
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Lead a Coordinated AI Feature Launch for an HR Software Startup
Using the company background brief and the draft feature specification provided, design a six-week launch plan covering four parallel workstreams: product readiness (acceptance …
- Product Launch
- Cross Functional Coordination
- Go To Market
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- ResearchBeginnerNew
Run a Product Discovery Sprint for Logistics Dispatch Software
Using the company-brief and the customer-recruitment-packet, recruit and interview eight dispatchers across the five named freight-forwarder customers (the warm introduction ema…
- Product Discovery
- User Interviews
- Opportunity Solution Tree
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Build a Participatory Budgeting Decision Tool for a City Government
You will design and prototype a participatory budgeting tool for one neighborhood pilot with around 30 candidate projects and a fixed EUR 2 million budget. Residents vote on wei…
- Participatory Decision Making
- Decision Support Systems
- Portfolio Optimization
Decision Support Systems and Decision Analysis - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Hybrid Work Model for a Bangalore D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to develop a hybrid work model for the startup. Analyze the current remote work challenges, propose a structured hybrid schedule (e.g., fixed office days, core coll…
- Hybrid Work Design
- Remote Team Management
- Organizational Culture
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Demand Forecasting for a New York D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a forecasting analyst at Glow NYC. Using provided monthly sales data (units sold) for 10 SKUs, develop a time series forecast for the next 3 months. Compare at least two…
- Time Series Analysis
- Forecasting
- Data Visualization
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Build a Multi-Criteria Vendor Selection Tool for an AI Consulting Firm
You will design a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA, a structured way to score options against weighted criteria) tool that accepts 6-10 vendor options, 6-12 weighted crite…
- Mcda
- Decision Support Systems
- Streamlit
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Tax Compliance and Optimization for a Renewable Energy Cooperative
Students receive SunShare eG's annual financials: €2M revenue from electricity sales, €1.5M operating expenses, €300k EEG subsidies, and €200k member contributions. They must ca…
- Corporate Tax
- Trade Tax
- Vat
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Digital Banking App Feature Prioritization
You are part of the product team. Analyze the neobank's user transaction data (anonymized CSV provided), conduct a competitive analysis of similar features at eToro, Lemonade, a…
- Product Analysis
- Data Analysis
- Competitive Analysis
Fintech and Digital Finance - DesignBeginnerNew
Sketch a Custom Gaussian-Blur Accelerator for a Smart-Camera Chip
Using the provided C reference implementation of the 5x5 Gaussian blur, work out a hardware datapath that produces one finished output pixel every clock cycle by sliding a 5x5 w…
- Hardware Accelerators
- Datapath Design
- Performance Modeling
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- CodeBeginnerNew
Tune Autoscaling for a Cost-Sensitive Workload with HPA + KEDA
Receive the service's current Deployment + HorizontalPodAutoscaler config (static 12-20 replicas), 90 days of traffic logs + Kafka-lag metrics, and the SLA (p99 < 250ms, error r…
- Kubernetes
- Autoscaling
- Keda
Container Orchestration with Kubernetes - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Lean ITIL Service Desk for a Cosmetics Startup
Using the support operations snapshot (support-ops-snapshot), the twelve-month ticket log (support-ticket-log), and the executive mandate (ceo-mandate-and-budget), and drawing o…
- Itil
- Service Desk
- Incident Management
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Agile Sprint Planning for an E-Health Platform Migration
Using the provided product backlog (spreadsheet with user stories, story points, and pod assignments), deliver: (1) Sprint 0 plan covering architecture decisions, CI/CD setup, a…
- Agile Project Management
- Project Management
- Requirements Engineering
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Predict 30-Day Churn for a Direct-to-Consumer Cosmetics Brand
Working only from the two materials you are given (a subscriber behavior sample dataset and a one-page stakeholder brief from the head of retention), build a binary classificati…
- Python
- Scikit Learn
- Logistic Regression
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Brand Alliance Strategy for a Sustainable Fashion Startup
You are a brand strategy analyst for EcoThreads. Your task is to recommend a brand alliance partner and propose a co-branding campaign. Constraints: budget of €200k for the camp…
- Brand Alliances
- Co Branding
- Brand Equity Measurement
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Balanced Scorecard for CloudMetrics' Shift to Enterprise Sales
Using the company snapshot and the current metrics extract provided in the materials, design a balanced scorecard with four perspectives: financial, customer, internal processes…
- Balanced Scorecard
- KPI Design
- Strategic Alignment
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Apply SOLID Principles to a Notifications Subsystem
Read Notifier and the last 6 months of incidents touching it. Write a 4-page design document mapping each of the 5 SOLID principles to a specific change in the subsystem (Single…
- Solid Principles
- Design Patterns
- Refactoring
Software Design and Design Patterns - StrategyBeginnerNew
Diagnose and Redesign Project Flow at Brillo Natural
Treat Brillo Natural as a field site you must study before you prescribe. Using only the internal observation notes in the case file ('brillo-observation-notes') and the launch-…
- Agile Methodologies
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Change Management
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Propose a Cryptographic Target State for a Checkout Stack
Working solely from the four supplied materials — the stack architecture case file, the testssl.sh export corpus, the cryptographic configuration specification, and the best-pra…
- Cryptography
- Tls
- Pci Dss
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Refit a Pricing Model for an Insurance Comparison Site
You receive 9 months of quote-impression data (about 14 million events) with about 60 features and click labels. Refit logistic regression with elastic-net regularization plus a…
- Regularized Regression
- Feature Interactions
- Calibration
Statistical Machine Learning - DesignBeginnerNew
Design a Retrieval Pipeline for a Climate-Research Open Archive
You receive a metadata sample (5,000 documents) plus 50 example researcher queries (mixed-language). Design a retrieval pipeline architecture that: (1) extracts and normalizes s…
- Retrieval Architecture
- Hybrid Search
- Multilingual Search
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Circular Packaging for a San Francisco D2C Cosmetics Brand
As a sustainability consultant, you must propose a circular packaging strategy for GlowCycle. Analyze current packaging lifecycle, identify circular options (refill, reusable, c…
- Life Cycle Assessment
- Circular Economy
- Cost Benefit Analysis
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