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IP Strategy for a SaaS Scale-Up Moving Upmarket
You are an IP strategy associate at a boutique law firm. TaskFlow's CTO has asked for a strategic memo outlining how to protect their algorithm and brand. You must evaluate whet…
- Ip Law
- Patent Analysis
- Trademark Strategy
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Detect Sensor Drift for a Field Inspection Robot Fleet
You receive 60 days of telemetry from 12 robots, including IMU readings, camera exposure stats, and the inspection-quality scores produced downstream. Define drift signals (roll…
- Anomaly Detection
- Change Point Detection
- Sensor Fusion
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Fraud Risk Assessment at a Fast-Growing Jakarta Fintech
Working in a team of 3-4, build a fraud risk register covering at least eight fraud risks across revenue recognition, expected credit loss estimation, management override, and r…
- Fraud Risk Assessment
- Analytical Procedures
- Data Analytics
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Behavior Cloning for a Pick-and-Place Manipulator
You receive 200 human teleoperated demonstrations (state + action trajectories) of picking 8 small electronic components from a tray and placing them at marked locations in a ro…
- Behavior Cloning
- Imitation Learning
- Manipulation
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- 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 - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Evaluate Speech-to-Text Quality for a Contact-Center Analytics Vendor
You receive 200 anonymized call-recording snippets (2-4 minutes each, ~67 per language) with reference transcripts plus a domain glossary of about 600 product terms. Run all thr…
- Speech Recognition
- Sequence Models
- Model Evaluation
Machine Perception - StrategyBeginnerNew
Growth Strategy for a London D2C Cosmetics Brand
Your task is to develop a 12-month retail expansion plan. Analyze the trade-offs between D2C and retail channels, assess the brand's readiness for B2B relationships, and propose…
- Market Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Go To Market Strategy
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Continuous-Improvement Kata for a SaaS Engineering Org
Read Mike Rother's 'Toyota Kata' framework + 'The Kata Coaching Practice Guide'. Design a lightweight Improvement Kata for the 3 pilot teams: vision (engineering quality), targe…
- Continuous Improvement
- Toyota Kata
- Coaching
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Plan and measure campaigns that grow the business. Funnel analytics, attribution, segmentation, and the rigorous measurement that lets marketing defend its budget at the leadership table.
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Assessing Political Risk for a Spanish Solar Firm in Indonesia
Students must produce a political risk report for SolMadrid's board, including a country risk score (0-100) using a custom weighted index, a qualitative assessment of key risk f…
- Political Risk Analysis
- Country Risk Assessment
- Geopolitical Frameworks
Geopolitics for Business - StrategyBeginnerNew
Investigate GlowToronto's Pricing to Rebuild Margins
Develop a pricing strategy for GlowToronto's core product line of serums and moisturizers. Begin by analysing the provided GlowToronto transaction dataset to understand how disc…
- Pricing Strategy
- Customer Segmentation
- Competitive Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Migrate Glow Naturals to Dynamics 365 Business Central
Your analysis task is to turn the documented situation in the 'Glow Naturals current-state file' (CASE-001) into a defensible migration blueprint, using the legacy data sample i…
- Microsoft Dynamics 365
- Business Process Mapping
- Data Migration
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Diversify Raw-Material Sourcing for a Boston Natural-Cosmetics Brand
Working from the supplier portfolio dataset and the leadership situation memo provided to you, build a strategic sourcing plan for GlowUp Naturals' key raw materials. Use the da…
- Strategic Sourcing
- Supplier Evaluation
- Risk Management
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Revitalizing a Legacy Retailer's Digital Strategy
Your task is to conduct an industry analysis using Porter's Five Forces, assess the company's internal resources via a VRIO framework, and develop a strategic recommendation for…
- Industry Analysis
- Competitive Strategy
- Digital Transformation
Strategic Management - StrategyBeginnerNew
Diversification Strategy for a Regional Brewery Chain
Your task is to identify and evaluate three diversification opportunities for Prairie Brews: (1) launching a line of non-alcoholic craft beverages, (2) opening a chain of beer-t…
- Diversification Analysis
- Financial Modeling
- Market Research
Strategic Management (Graduate) - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Overcoming Overconfidence in a Madrid D2C Cosmetics Startup
You are a behavioral finance consultant hired by Luz Natural. Your task is to analyze the founder's recent product launch decisions, identify patterns of overconfidence (e.g., i…
- Overconfidence Bias
- Prospect Theory
- Decision Framing
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Building a Customer Segmentation Tool for a SaaS Scale-up
You are provided with a JSON file containing user data: user_id, total_logins, days_since_last_login, features_used (count), subscription_tier (free/basic/premium). Your task is…
- Python
- Pandas
- Scikit Learn
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build a Booking Web App for a Boutique Hotel Group
Design the data model (properties, rooms, availability, bookings, guests). Build the Next.js app with the App Router: 4 public pages (search, results, room detail, checkout), 1 …
- Nextjs
- React
- REST API
Web Application Development - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Plan and Validate a MySQL-to-PostgreSQL Records Migration
Using the de-identified case record (incident-file-records-office), the representative schema export (mysql-schema-sample), and the anonymized staging extract (staging-records-s…
- Database Migration
- Mysql
- Postgresql
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Forecast Hourly Energy Demand for a Microgrid Operator
You receive 24 months of hourly demand, weather (temperature, irradiance), and calendar data for the community. Build a probabilistic forecaster (e.g., quantile regression with …
- Probabilistic Forecasting
- Quantile Regression
- Deep Forecasting
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Conversational UI for a Personal-Finance Assistant
You will work from 4 scripted scenarios: 'how much did I spend on coffee last month', 'why did my rent payment fail', 'help me set up an emergency fund', and an out-of-scope 'is…
- Conversational Ui
- Dialogue Design
- Trust Design
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Tabular Q-Learning for Warehouse Slotting
You receive a Python discrete-event simulator with state encoded as a 12-dimensional categorical vector (around 8,000 reachable states) and 6 possible slotting actions, plus 2 y…
- Tabular Rl
- Q Learning
- Epsilon Greedy
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Investigate and Plan Zeno Pay's 90-Day Scrum Transition
Treat this as a field investigation before a plan. Start by reading the Zeno Pay Current-State Dossier (provided case-file) to understand the three squads, the people, and the c…
- Scrum
- Change Management
- Backlog Design
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Plan a Self-Improving Sales-Research Agent
Build the v0 agent: given a company URL, it gathers 5 fact bullets (recent news, headcount range, tech stack hints, hiring patterns, a recent leadership change) and drafts a 4-l…
- LLM Agents
- Agent Design
- Experimentation
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Implement a Constraint Solver for a Lisbon Tourism Scheduler
Model the next-week schedule as a CSP: variables are (guide, day, slot) assignments; domains are available routes; constraints encode language requirements, max consecutive tour…
- Constraint Satisfaction
- Backtracking Search
- Python
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