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Pick a Forecasting Stack for an Edtech Engagement Team
You will produce a 6-page strategy memo evaluating three paths: (1) in-house forecasting team (2 engineers), (2) open-source stack (statsforecast + neuralforecast), (3) forecast…
- Ai Strategy
- Build Vs Buy Analysis
- Vendor Evaluation
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Build Semantic Search for an Internal Engineering Wiki
You receive a Confluence XML export (~12k pages, ~80 MB of text) and a hand-labeled benchmark of 50 internal queries with ground-truth doc IDs. Chunk and embed the corpus with a…
- Embedding Models
- Vector Search
- Pgvector
Vector Databases and Embeddings - StrategyBeginnerNew
Social Media Content Strategy for a Sustainable Cosmetics Brand
Audit the brand's current social presence (screenshots and analytics data provided). Research 3 successful competitors' social strategies. Develop: (1) Platform strategy — which…
- Digital Marketing
- Online Marketing
- Digital Business Models
Open coursework - CodeBeginnerNew
Big Data Dashboard for Urban Mobility Patterns
Using the provided sample dataset (100K anonymized trip records with timestamps, origin/destination coordinates, transport mode, and duration), build a dashboard prototype. Requ…
- Data Analytics
- Digital Business Models
- Web Development
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
E-Commerce Conversion Funnel Optimization for an Outdoor Gear Brand
Using the provided Google Analytics export and heatmap data, map the complete customer journey from landing page to purchase confirmation. Identify the top 5 friction points cau…
- E Commerce
- Data Analytics
- User Experience Design
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Project Management Plan for a SaaS Product Launch
Develop a 6-week launch plan using appropriate project management methodology (Agile, Waterfall, or hybrid — justify your choice). Include: (1) Work Breakdown Structure with all…
- Project Management
- Collaborative Work
- Digital Business Models
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 - CodeBeginnerNew
Full-Stack Prototype: Event Ticketing Platform with QR Validation
Build a web application using any modern stack (Next.js recommended, but React + Express, Django, or Rails are acceptable). Required features: (1) Event listing page with title,…
- Web Development
- Object Oriented Programming
- User Experience Design
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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.
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Stakeholder ROI Presentation for Implementing a CRM System
Compare three CRM solutions (Salesforce, HubSpot, Pipedrive) for the firm's specific needs. For each: feature comparison, pricing for 15 users, implementation timeline, and trai…
- Business Administration
- Digital Business Models
- Statistics
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Designing Spotify's Post-Profitability Payout Policy
Build a 3-year forecast of Spotify's free cash flow to equity and surplus cash position under base and downside cases. Benchmark payout ratios, buyback yields, and net leverage …
- Payout Policy
- Fcfe Modeling
- Peer Benchmarking
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Beachhead Selection for a Direct-Air-Capture University Spinout
Using the founder and company dossier, the sorbent technical specification, and the European market-signals dataset provided to you, run a full divergent-then-convergent process…
- Opportunity Evaluation
- Ideation
- Market Sizing
Open coursework - DesignBeginnerNew
Balanced Scorecard for a Lisbon Vegan Meal-Kit Startup
Design a complete Balanced Scorecard for the startup including a strategy map, 12-16 KPIs across the four perspectives, target values, and an explanation of cause-and-effect lin…
- Balanced Scorecard
- KPI Design
- Strategy Mapping
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Responsible AI Policy for a HR-Tech Scale-up
Working as a cross-functional team, produce a Responsible AI Policy that addresses: permitted/prohibited use cases, human oversight requirements, data minimization, vendor due d…
- Ai Policy
- Ai Governance
- Stakeholder Management
AI, Ethics and Society - 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 - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Field-Screen EV Charging Partners for Numbat's Nordic Push
Treat this as a field investigation of publicly observable site networks. Using the provided Numbat capability brief and the candidate-sites dataset, build a partner-selection f…
- Partner Screening
- Alliance Strategy
- Competitive Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Launch GlowSF Skincare in Tokyo: A Market-Entry Judgment
Working only from the four provided materials, produce a market-entry recommendation for GlowSF's Tokyo launch. Examine the GlowSF company file to fix the brand identity, produc…
- Cross Cultural Analysis
- Market Entry Strategy
- Marketing Mix Adaptation
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Field Investigation: Heartland Bank's Liquidity Under a Deposit Run
Investigate, then plan. Step one: aggregate the position-level holdings in the Heartland Bank position ledger (heartland-position-ledger) to compute the bank's Liquidity Coverag…
- Liquidity Risk
- Lcr
- Nsfr
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Key Account Strategy for a Dublin B2B SaaS Scale-up
Your task is to develop a comprehensive key account strategy. You will analyze the company's current PLG strengths and identify gaps for enterprise sales. Define a scoring syste…
- B2B Marketing
- Key Account Management
- Market Segmentation
Business-to-Business Marketing - StrategyBeginnerNew
Nudge Strategy for a Bangalore D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a behavioral economics consultant hired by Glow Naturals. Analyze their current checkout process (provided in a mockup) and identify cognitive biases causing friction. P…
- Nudge Design
- Choice Architecture
- A B Testing
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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
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Scaling a Sydney D2C Cosmetics Startup's Data Pipeline
You are tasked with designing a cloud-based data pipeline for GlowUp. The pipeline must ingest real-time user events (page views, purchases, returns) from web and mobile apps, p…
- Cloud Computing
- Apache Spark
- Nosql
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Simulation-Based Customer Success Staffing Plan for Flowly
Using the historical ticket log, the growth-scenarios brief, and the current-operations and service-level specification provided to you, build a discrete-event simulation of Flo…
- Simulation
- Capacity Planning
- Scenario Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyBeginnerNew
Rebranding a Legacy German Brewery
You are a brand consultant hired by Alte Eiche. Your task is to analyze the current brand equity, propose a new brand architecture (e.g., sub-brands or endorsed brands), and des…
- Brand Audit
- Positioning
- Brand Architecture
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Fair Trade Sourcing for a San Francisco D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a junior sustainability consultant hired by GlowRoot. Evaluate the current sourcing cost, the cooperative's request (a 15% price increase), and the impact on product pri…
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Cost Benefit Analysis
- Ethical Decision Making
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