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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Annual Report Teardown: Zalando vs. ASOS for an Equity Note
Using the two companies' most recent annual reports (provided as links to their investor relations pages) and the supplied list of international accounting standards for referen…
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Ratio Analysis
- IFRS Interpretation
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Compare Stereo Depth Methods for a Drone Inspection Startup
You receive 500 calibrated stereo pairs from a turbine inspection plus sparse LiDAR ground truth on each pair. Implement (or wrap) three depth estimators: OpenCV Semi-Global Mat…
- Stereo Depth Estimation
- Multi View Geometry
- Model Evaluation
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
ESG Integration in a Mining Company's Valuation
Your task is to forecast CopperCorp's residual income for 5 years, incorporating adjustments for potential carbon taxes, water remediation costs, and reputational risks that cou…
- Residual Income Valuation
- ESG Integration
- Scenario Analysis
Financial Statement Analysis & Valuation - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Pivot or Persevere for a Food-Tech Startup
Your team has one week to analyze provided customer data (acquisition channels, churn rates, unit economics) and market research on the B2B office food market. Deliver a recomme…
- Data Analysis
- Unit Economics
- Business Model Canvas
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
Valuing a Lisbon D2C Cosmetics Startup for Series A
Your task is to value GlowLisboa using a DCF model and a market multiples approach. You have access to the startup's financial statements, industry benchmarks, and market data. …
- DCF Valuation
- Capm
- Comparable Company Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Optimize UHNW Client Portfolio for Tax Efficiency
Analyze the client's current portfolio (provided in a data sheet) and identify tax-inefficient holdings. Recommend a reallocation across jurisdictions (Switzerland, Luxembourg, …
- Tax Optimization
- Asset Allocation
- Cross Border Compliance
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Cost-Optimize a Misshapen Kubernetes Cluster
Receive 30 days of cluster metrics (Prometheus + AWS Cost Explorer exports), Helm releases, and PodDisruptionBudgets per namespace. Profile: identify the top 3 cost drivers (lik…
- Kubernetes
- Cost Optimization
- AWS
Cloud Computing - AnalysisSeniorNew
Financial Statement Analysis for a Renewable Energy Firm
Your team must analyze SunPower's last three years of financial statements (income statement, balance sheet, cash flow statement) and ESG reports. Calculate key ratios (liquidit…
- Financial Statement Analysis
- Ratio Analysis
- Dupont Analysis
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- AnalysisIntermediateNew
Frame an Energy-Storage Dispatch Decision as a Bayesian Decision Problem
You receive 2 years of hourly spot-price data, 2 years of wind generation data, and a manufacturer's battery degradation model. Frame dispatch as a Bayesian decision problem: mo…
- Bayesian Decision Theory
- Price Modeling
- Back Testing
Decision Making Under Uncertainty - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Predictive Maintenance for Smart Factory Conveyors
Your task is to design a predictive maintenance system for AutoParts' conveyor belts. Use vibration and temperature sensors to monitor motor health. Data should be processed at …
- Predictive Maintenance
- Sensor Deployment
- Edge Computing
Internet of Things and Smart Systems - 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 - AnalysisSeniorNew
Real Options Analysis for Ørsted Offshore Wind Expansion
Construct a base-case DCF for a 1.1 GW US offshore wind project using public assumptions on capex/MW, capacity factor, and PPA pricing. Then layer a real options framework: mode…
- Real Options
- Monte Carlo Simulation
- DCF Modeling
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- AnalysisBeginnerNew
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 - AnalysisSeniorNew
Data Protection Impact Assessment for a Smart City IoT Project
Your task is to produce a full DPIA report for the smart parking pilot. You must describe the processing, assess necessity and proportionality, identify risks to data subjects, …
- Dpia
- GDPR
- Risk Assessment
IT Law and Data Protection - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Forecast Daily Demand for an Apparel Supply-Chain Team
You receive 24 months of daily sales for 500 SKUs across 200 stores, plus calendar features (holidays, promotions, weather codes). Forecast 14 days out per SKU-store. Benchmark …
- Time Series Forecasting
- Sarima
- Gradient Boosting
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Commercial Due Diligence on a Seoul Direct-to-Consumer Cosmetics Brand
Working only from the materials provided, build a commercial due diligence assessment of GlowUp Cosmetics. Use the customer cohort dataset to reconstruct retention curves, lifet…
- Commercial Due Diligence
- Customer Analytics
- Unit Economics
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Diagnose a Memory-Hierarchy Bottleneck in a Trading-System Hot Path
Receive the normalizer source (around 4,000 lines of C++17), a replay harness that feeds 30 minutes of recorded market data, and host-machine specifications (Intel Xeon Gold 634…
- Memory Hierarchy
- Performance Profiling
- Perf
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
IFRS 15 Revenue Recognition for a Dubai D2C Cosmetics Startup
You are a junior accountant at Glow Naturals. The CFO needs a revenue recognition policy under IFRS 15 for three main product lines: (1) monthly subscription boxes with a free g…
- IFRS 15
- Revenue Recognition
- Contract Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Diagnose Churn Drivers for a B2B SaaS Workflow Tool
You receive three CSV exports: 18 months of weekly product-usage events for about 1,800 accounts, the full support-ticket history, and account firmographics (industry, size, pla…
- Exploratory Data Analysis
- Data Wrangling
- Feature Engineering
Applied Data Analysis and Practical Data Science - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Mine Association Rules for a Grocery Retailer's Promo Strategy
You receive 6 months of basket-level transaction data (around 22 million baskets, around 18,000 SKUs) plus a category taxonomy. Run association-rule mining (Apriori or FP-Growth…
- Association Rules
- Market Basket Analysis
- Apriori
Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Minimum Wage Impact on a Munich Bakery Chain
You are to produce a policy brief for the bakery's management. Using data on current wages, hours, and profit margins (provided in a simulated dataset), model the impact of the …
- Minimum Wage Analysis
- Labor Demand Modeling
- Cost Benefit Analysis
Open coursework - AnalysisSeniorNew
Tame the P99 Latency Tail of a Real-Time Ad-Auction Service
Working from the four provided materials only, isolate and fix the latency tail of the bidder. Start with the representative auction-handler module ('bidder-module') as the code…
- Performance Optimization
- Ebpf
- Go
Open coursework - AnalysisBeginnerNew
Hedging Currency Risk for a German Exporter
You are a junior financial analyst at Mittelstand GmbH. The company has a firm order of €10 million from a US client, payable in USD in 6 months, and a £5 million order from a U…
- Currency Hedging
- Derivatives Pricing
- Risk Management
Financial Markets and Institutions - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Workforce Readiness Case File for a SaaS Sales Pivot
Working only from the two items in your provided materials — the longitudinal workforce records file and the chief executive's transition memo — examine whether Halyard's people…
- Hr Analytics
- Data Visualization
- Workforce Planning
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