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- StrategyFoundationalNew
Design a Lightweight Intrapreneurship Program for TaskFlow
Working only from the materials provided — the TaskFlow company dossier (taskflow-dossier), the leadership strategy and budget memo (leadership-memo), and the employee innovatio…
- Program Design
- Intrapreneurship
- Process Mapping
Open coursework - StrategyFoundationalNew
Go-to-Market Strategy for a Munich D2C Cosmetics Startup
Your task is to create a comprehensive go-to-market plan. You must identify the target customer segments, select appropriate marketing channels (e.g., social media, influencer p…
- Market Segmentation
- Marketing Strategy
- Budget Planning
Open coursework - CodeFoundationalNew
Build a Simple Neural Network to Read Handwritten Postal Codes
You receive a labeled dataset of about 60,000 handwritten digit images (28x28 grayscale) drawn from Indian postal forms. Build two models from scratch in PyTorch: (1) a 2-layer …
- Neural Networks
- Convolutional Neural Networks
- Pytorch
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Cluster Climate-Tech SMB Customers for a Growth Team
You receive a CSV with company size, industry sub-vertical, country, product features adopted, monthly active users, and lifetime value. Standardize features, decide on a cluste…
- Unsupervised Learning
- Clustering
- Dimensionality Reduction
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- CodeFoundationalNew
Design and Verify a 7-Segment Roaster-Console Display Controller
Working only from the materials provided, build and verify the controller. Implement the controller per the signal definitions in the microcontroller interface specification (ic…
- Verilog
- Fpga
- Digital Logic
Open coursework - DesignFoundationalNew
Stakeholder Workshop on AI Risk for a Public-Sector Pilot
You receive a description of the pilot (24/7 LLM chatbot answering questions on municipal services in Spanish and Catalan). Design a 3-hour workshop for around 25 mixed-stakehol…
- Stakeholder Engagement
- Workshop Design
- Responsible Ai
AI Ethics, Fairness, and Responsible AI - CodeFoundationalNew
Python Data Pipeline for Spotify Listening Trends
Write a Python script (or Jupyter notebook) that reads the provided CSV files (4 weeks of Spotify Top 200 data), cleans inconsistencies (missing artists, duplicate entries, enco…
- Object Oriented Programming
- Data Analytics
- Statistics
Open coursework - CodeFoundationalNew
Rule-Based Intent Classifier for a Customer-Support Triage Bot
Build a rule-based classifier in Python that runs ordered rules (regex + keyword + simple heuristics) against ticket subject + body. Use a hierarchical rule structure (high-prec…
- Knowledge Representation
- Rule Based Systems
- Python Programming
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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.
- 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 - ResearchFoundationalNew
Diagnose GreenBite's Plant-Based Chicken Launch Readiness
Work only from the four items in the provided materials: the GreenBite launch-readiness case file, the draft consumer survey instrument left by the previous analyst, the nationa…
- Survey Design
- Data Analysis
- Consumer Behavior
Open coursework - CodeFoundationalNew
Tune a Pick-and-Place Controller for a Cosmetics Co-Packer
You receive 4 hours of logged trajectories from the existing controller (joint positions, target poses, miss/success labels) and read/write access to the controller config (YAML…
- Motion Control
- Trajectory Tuning
- Robot Kinematics
Open coursework - CodeFoundationalNew
Parallelize an Image-Processing Pipeline with Data Parallelism
Your analysis task is to take the serial pipeline module and its configuration (provided as 'serial-pipeline-module'), run it against the representative image batch described in…
- Data Parallelism
- Python
- Multiprocessing
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- DesignFoundationalNew
Launching a Sustainable Fashion Line with Influencer Marketing
Develop a complete influencer marketing plan: identify influencer tiers (macro, micro, nano), create a brief for influencers, propose a content strategy, and set KPIs. Include a…
- Influencer Marketing
- Campaign Planning
- Budgeting
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Brand Architecture Overhaul for a D2C Cosmetics Startup
You are a brand strategy intern at GlowUp. Your task is to audit the current brand portfolio, propose a new brand architecture (e.g., branded house, house of brands, or hybrid),…
- Brand Portfolio Audit
- Brand Architecture
- Naming
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Optimize EcoThreads' Local vs. Overseas Cotton Sourcing
Working only from the EcoThreads sourcing file (the de-identified internal record) and the supplier cost-and-emissions dataset, find the combination of local and overseas shirt …
- Cost Minimization
- Isoquant Isocost
- Carbon Footprint
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Pricing Strategy for a Sustainable Fashion Brand
You are a pricing analyst at EcoWear. Using the survey data (simulated with 500 responses) and competitor prices, perform a conjoint analysis or price elasticity analysis. Deter…
- Data Analysis
- Statistics
- Data Visualization
Open coursework - ResearchFoundationalNew
Ethical Stress Test of an AI Tutoring Startup
Produce a concise ethical risk register and stakeholder impact analysis grounded in publicly available evidence about AI tutors (e.g., Khanmigo studies, UNESCO AI in education g…
- Risk Assessment
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Ai Ethics
AI, Ethics and Society - StrategyFoundationalNew
Plan GlowLisboa's Competitive Response to a Price War
Working from the company snapshot and the competitor and market readout provided to you, build a structured competitive assessment of GlowLisboa and recommend one strategic move…
- Industry Analysis
- Competitor Profiling
- Strategic Thinking
Open coursework - StrategyFoundationalNew
Restructure GreenMart's Store Sales Force to Lift Upselling
Using the provided transaction-level sales export, the staff roster and turnover record, and the store-visit field notes, build a sales force restructuring plan for GreenMart's …
- Sales Force Analysis
- Incentive Design
- Training Program Design
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Production Planning for a Sustainable Fashion Brand
Your task is to build a linear program that decides weekly production quantities for each product line. Constraints include labor hours (max 400 hrs), machine hours (max 200 hrs…
- Linear Programming
- Optimization
- Excel
Operations Research and Optimization - AnalysisFoundationalNew
ESG Reporting Gaps for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-up
You are an ESG analyst tasked with helping DataFlow prepare for enterprise client ESG requirements. Your deliverable is a materiality matrix, a set of key ESG indicators (KPIs),…
- Materiality Assessment
- ESG Metrics
- Sustainability Reporting
Open coursework - CodeFoundationalNew
Build a Best-First Search Solver for a Delivery Startup's Test Lab
Build a Python module exposing uniform-cost search and A-star search on a 2D grid with weighted cells (open road, traffic, no-go). Implement two admissible heuristics for A-star…
- Search Algorithms
- Heuristic Design
- Python
Introduction to Artificial Intelligence - DesignFoundationalNew
Design a Kanban Catering Workflow for a Lisbon Bakery Chain
Using the order-flow case file describing how a catering order moves from intake to delivery confirmation, and the sample catering order log provided, design a complete Kanban s…
- Kanban
- Process Mapping
- Wip Limits
Open coursework - AnalysisFoundationalNew
Performance Evaluation of a Tech Mutual Fund
Your task is to analyze the TechGrowth Fund's monthly returns from 2019-2023, along with benchmark and risk-free rate data. You must calculate and interpret key performance meas…
- Performance Evaluation
- Sharpe Ratio
- Jensens Alpha
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