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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Design a Currency Hedging Policy for GlowAustin's EU and Japan Revenue
You are a junior financial analyst at GlowAustin, and the CFO has asked you to prepare a hedging proposal for the next fiscal year. Working from the provided two-year revenue-an…
- Fx Risk Management
- Financial Analysis
- Derivatives
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Portfolio Optimization for a Sustainable Fashion ETF
You are given monthly returns for 20 candidate stocks (5 years of data) and the risk-free rate. Your task is to select 15 stocks and compute the efficient frontier, the tangency…
- Mean Variance Optimization
- Efficient Frontier
- Capm
Investments and Asset Pricing - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Capstone Lab: Diagnose Why a Production Model Quietly Stopped Working
You receive 6 months of production logs (model inputs, predictions, ground truth from chargebacks) plus the original training data and model card. Reproduce the recall drop in a…
- Data Drift Detection
- Model Monitoring
- Root Cause Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Acquisition of a Bangalore D2C Cosmetics Startup
As a junior M&A analyst at BeautyCo, you must assess GlowUp's business model, financials, and market position. You need to conduct a valuation using DCF and comparable company a…
- Financial Analysis
- Valuation
- Due Diligence
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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Sales & Distribution Process Optimization for a Mid-Size Manufacturer
Your task is to audit PumpTech's SD processes (inquiry to cash) and design improvements. You will map the current process, identify root causes of delays (e.g., manual credit ch…
- SAP S4hana
- Sales And Distribution
- Business Process Reengineering
ERP Systems (SAP and Microsoft Dynamics) - 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 - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Field Pricing Investigation for Glow Dublin's Vitamin C Serum
Treat this as a pricing investigation with two evidence sources and nothing else. First, work the company's own history: from the 'sales-history' dataset, estimate the price ela…
- Demand Elasticity
- Cost Analysis
- Pricing Strategy
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Requirements Elicitation for a Sustainable Fashion Platform
Conduct stakeholder interviews (simulated via provided personas) and create a requirements specification. Include functional and non-functional requirements, user stories, accep…
- Requirements Elicitation
- User Stories
- Acceptance Criteria
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Frame the business question, model the options, build the recommendation. From market sizing to competitive analysis, this role is where strategy consulting meets in-house decision-making.
- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Go-to-Market Strategy for a B2B SaaS Scale-up
You are a strategy consultant for TaskFlow. The company currently has 2000 self-serve customers (average $500/yr) and wants to target enterprise accounts (average $50k/yr). You …
- Decision Analysis
- Value Of Information
- Monte Carlo Simulation
Decision Analysis under Uncertainty - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Differential Expression Pipeline for an RNA-Seq Drug Discovery Run
Build a Snakemake pipeline running: fastp trimming, salmon quantification against a provided GENCODE reference, tximport for gene-level summarization, DESeq2 differential testin…
- Bioinformatics
- Computational Genomics
- Differential Expression
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Open-Source License Audit and 60-Day Remediation Plan for Lumen Observability
Work only from the four items in provided_materials. Start with the dependency inventory (the 'Lumen dependency inventory' dataset), which lists every open-source package, its d…
- Oss Licensing
- Sbom
- Supply Chain
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
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Transfer Pricing for a Lagos D2C Cosmetics Startup
You are a junior tax consultant hired by GlowLagos. Your task is to analyze the current intercompany transactions (raw material purchases, manufacturing fees, and royalty paymen…
- Transfer Pricing
- Benchmarking
- Functional Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Privacy-by-Design Review for a Smart-City Data Platform
Map the new module's end-to-end data flow (sensors -> ingestion -> analytics -> dashboards -> exports). Run a Privacy Impact Assessment against OECD privacy principles + per-ten…
- Privacy By Design
- Privacy Regulation
- Compliance
Information Security Management and Governance - AnalysisSeniorNew
Memory Consistency Model Audit of a Lock-Free Queue
Read the SPSC queue source (around 200 lines of C++). For each atomic operation, classify the required ordering and verify the chosen memory_order is sufficient under both x86-T…
- Memory Consistency
- Concurrency
- Lock Free Programming
Advanced Computer Architecture - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Reducing Inventory Costs for a Mid-Size Electronics Manufacturer
As a supply chain analyst, you must analyze CircuitPro's inventory data (provided in a simulated dataset) and propose improvements. Tasks include: classifying inventory using AB…
- Inventory Management
- Abc Analysis
- Safety Stock
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Rescue a Stalling Scrum Team at a Series-B HealthTech
Review 8 hours of recorded ceremonies and 3 sprints of Jira data (story sizing, carry-over rate, cycle time per story, blocker tags). Diagnose the top 3 root causes (likely cand…
- Scrum
- Agile Metrics
- Retrospectives
Agile Methods and Practices - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Defect-Trend Analysis and Quality Action Plan for an EV Charging Platform
Pull 18 months of defect data from Jira + the field-incident system + customer-service tickets. Categorize defects by component, severity, and root-cause taxonomy. Run statistic…
- Defect Analysis
- Statistical Process Control
- Root Cause Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Choose the Right Tenant Containment Strategy for an Edge Platform
Working only from the provided materials, reach and defend a containment recommendation. Read the documented incident record (case-file) to understand what triggered the review …
- Containment
- Virtualization
- Wasm
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Hedging FX Risk for a Sydney D2C Cosmetics Brand
You are a risk management consultant hired by GlowSydney. Analyze the company's FX exposure using provided data on forecasted USD payables and AUD receivables. Recommend a hedgi…
- Fx Hedging
- Derivatives Pricing
- Financial Modeling
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Investigate Price Sensitivity for GlowSydney's New Moisturizer
Working solo, begin by exploring the GlowSydney transaction history (provided as the dataset 'glowsydney-transactions') to summarize how prices and units sold are distributed, u…
- Descriptive Statistics
- Linear Regression
- Data Visualization
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Revenue Recognition for a SaaS Scale-Up
Your task is to produce a revenue recognition memo for the CloudSync contract. You must apply the ASC 606 five-step model, identify distinct performance obligations (software li…
- Revenue Recognition
- ASC 606
- Contract Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Design a Churn-Prediction and Retention Model for TaskFlow
Using the TaskFlow customer dataset and the VP's framing memo (both provided), design and document a churn-prediction model. Perform exploratory analysis to surface patterns and…
- Logistic Regression
- Classification
- Feature Engineering
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Hedging Currency Risk for a German Solar Exporter
Your task is to quantify Solara's net exposure in each currency, recommend a hedging mix (e.g., 70% forwards, 30% options) with rationale, calculate the cost of the strategy usi…
- Currency Hedging
- Financial Modeling
- Risk Analysis
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