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- StrategyIntermediateNew
Pre-empt a Works Council at a Munich SaaS Scale-Up
Working only from the materials you are given, design a proactive labor-relations strategy for CloudSync. The company dossier (case file) describes the organization, the three r…
- Collective Bargaining
- Works Council Law
- Conflict Resolution
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Safety-Critical Test Harness for an AV Planner
Use CARLA (open-source AV simulator) and encode 10 representative safety scenarios across 3 categories (cut-in, pedestrian emergence, signalized-intersection right-of-way). Writ…
- Simulation
- Scenario Testing
- Safety Evaluation
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Data-Driven Customer Segmentation for a SaaS Scale-Up
Using provided anonymized customer data (firmographics, usage patterns, and purchase history), perform cluster analysis to segment the customer base. Develop a targeting strateg…
- Customer Segmentation
- Cluster Analysis
- Data Analytics
Marketing Management - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Redesign Transfer Pricing for a German Auto Supplier
Build a transfer pricing model for one EV component line (e.g., e-axle housing) flowing Germany → Hungary → Mexico → US OEM. Compare cost-plus, market-based, and negotiated appr…
- Transfer Pricing
- Managerial Accounting
- Tax Strategy
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- StrategyIntermediateNew
Launch a Recycled-Activewear Micro-Influencer Campaign on £10K
Using the client case file (which describes the brand, its values, the product line, the budget, and the unit economics such as average order value and gross margin) and the can…
- Influencer Selection
- Campaign Briefing
- Negotiation
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Parallelize a CFD Solver with MPI Across 256 Cores
Profile the serial solver to identify the hot loops (likely: pressure-Poisson solve, advection step, BC update). Decompose the domain via 2D block-structured partitioning. Imple…
- Mpi
- Cpp Programming
- Domain Decomposition
Open coursework - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Transfer-Learning Backbone Bake-Off for Retail Product Tagging
You receive 80,000 retail product images tagged with multiple labels from a 250-tag taxonomy. Use each of the three pretrained backbones via two transfer strategies: (1) linear …
- Transfer Learning
- Fine Tuning
- Self Supervised Learning
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Plan PayBridge's Cross-Border Payments Entry into Southeast Asia
Design a market entry proposal for PayBridge covering Indonesia and Vietnam, and recommend one entry mode — acquisition, partnership, or organic build. Ground every claim in the…
- Market Entry
- Game Theory
- Competitive Analysis
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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.
- StrategyIntermediateNew
Corporate Innovation Pilot Design for a Tier-1 Auto Supplier
Audit year-1: review the 14 pilots' charters, outcomes, and sponsor commitment. Identify the structural failures (likely: no sponsor with budget ownership, no scale-up criteria …
- Innovation Management
- Pilot Program Design
- Stakeholder Communication
Innovation and Entrepreneurship for CS - CodeIntermediateNew
Hierarchical Plans for an Aerospace Maintenance Crew Scheduler
You receive a synthetic week of 80 work orders with hierarchical decompositions, technician certifications, and shared-tool constraints. Implement an HTN planner (PyHOP or HDDL …
- Htn Planning
- Domain Modeling
- Constraint Handling
Automated Planning - 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 - 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
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- DesignIntermediateNew
Organizational Restructuring for a SaaS Scale-Up
Your task is to design a new organizational structure for DataFlow Analytics. You must interview stakeholders (simulated via personas), analyze current bottlenecks, propose a st…
- Organizational Design
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Analysis
Principles of Management - ResearchIntermediateNew
Reproduce a Vision-Model Paper Under a Reproducibility Standard
Pick a vision-model paper from CVPR or NeurIPS 2024-2025 with publicly available code and a manageable compute footprint (single-GPU under 24 hours). Reproduce the headline metr…
- Reproducibility
- Experimental Design
- Model Evaluation
AI Measurement and Evaluation - CodeIntermediateNew
Train a VAE for Synthetic Tabular Data at a Healthtech Startup
You receive a synthetic-but-realistic clinical-trial table (around 50,000 patients, 35 columns, mixed continuous and categorical). Train a tabular VAE (or TVAE/CTGAN as alternat…
- Vae
- Tabular Generation
- Synthetic Data
Deep Generative Models - CodeIntermediateNew
Secure the Software Supply Chain of an Open-Source SDK
Audit the current state: dependency tree, publish process, GitHub Actions workflows, signing posture. Generate an SBOM (CycloneDX format) using Syft. Run OpenSSF Scorecard and t…
- Supply Chain Security
- Slsa
- Sbom
Open coursework - ResearchIntermediateNew
Seminar: Future of AI Visibility — How Brands Get Cited by ChatGPT
Research the emerging field of AI visibility / Generative Engine Optimization (GEO). Your deliverables: (1) Literature review covering at least 5 academic papers and 10 industry…
- Online Marketing
- Digital Innovation
- Academic Writing
Open coursework - CodeIntermediateNew
Wire a Knowledge Graph into a Pharma RAG Assistant
You receive: 100 internal benchmark questions with reference answers; a 50,000-document anonymized RAG index; a curated drug-target-disease KG (~80,000 triples) loaded into a tr…
- Kg Grounded RAG
- Sparql
- Entity Linking
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Develop a Competence Development Program for a SaaS Scale-Up
Design a competence development program for the scale-up. Identify key competencies needed for the enterprise shift, propose learning interventions (e.g., workshops, mentoring, …
- Competence Development
- Learning Program Design
- Skills Gap Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Designing a Service Cloud Strategy for a Renewable Energy Company
You are a Salesforce consultant leading a team of 3 students. Your task is to deliver a Service Cloud blueprint for SunGrid Energy. The solution must include case routing rules,…
- Service Cloud
- Case Management
- Knowledge Base
Salesforce and CRM Platforms - CodeIntermediateNew
Build a Speaker-Diarization Pipeline for a Legal-Tech Startup
You receive 20 hours of de-identified hearing audio with ground-truth speaker labels (4 speaker classes per hearing). Build a speaker-diarization pipeline (pyannote-audio or sim…
- Speaker Diarization
- Speech Recognition
- Pyannote
Speech Recognition and Spoken Language Processing - CodeIntermediateNew
Lambda-Calculus Semantic Parser for a Math-Tutor EdTech
Define a small typed lambda-calculus representation for linear equations and a small set of word-problem templates (rate, age, mixture). Build a parser that maps surface express…
- Semantic Parsing
- Lambda Calculus
- Symbolic Reasoning
Computational Semantics - AnalysisIntermediateNew
Map Knowledge Diffusion Across an Open-Source Project Ecosystem
Using the de-identified contributor activity export (material 1), build a temporal contributor-project network from the recorded events, then collapse it into a contributor-to-c…
- Network Science
- Temporal Networks
- Graph Analysis
Open coursework - StrategyIntermediateNew
Twelve-Month Smart-Operations Roadmap for a Growing Analytics Firm
Using the anonymized company case file and the internal-operations activity dataset provided to you, produce a 12-month digital transformation roadmap that automates the firm's …
- Industry 4 0
- Cyber Physical Systems
- Iot
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