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- StrategySeniorNew
Alliance Strategy for a 40-Person SaaS Scale-Up Going Enterprise
Your task is to identify and evaluate three potential alliance partners for TaskFlow, considering strategic fit, resource contribution, and risk. For the top candidate, design a…
- Alliance Management
- Partner Evaluation
- Negotiation Strategy
Corporate Strategy - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Multi-Objective Dynamic Pricing Engine for CityRide
Acting as a data scientist on CityRide's pricing team, design and prototype a dynamic pricing engine that, given the live time, pickup zone, and supply-demand conditions, quotes…
- Reinforcement Learning
- Optimization
- Simulation
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
Value Creation Plan for a SaaS Scale-Up
Develop a 100-day value creation plan: analyze current sales funnel, pricing tiers, and customer segments. Propose changes to sales compensation, product packaging, and customer…
- Value Creation
- Saas Metrics
- Pricing Strategy
Private Equity - DesignSeniorNew
Designing a Circular Supply Chain for a Sustainable Fashion Brand
Your task is to design a circular supply chain for EcoThreads' take-back program. You must decide on collection methods (mail-in, in-store drop-off, lockers), partner with a rec…
- Reverse Logistics
- Circular Economy
- Sustainability Reporting
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- StrategySeniorNew
Post-Quantum TLS and PKI Migration Plan for a Cross-Border Bank
Working only from the materials provided, complete three connected tasks. First, using the anonymized TLS endpoint inventory and the PKI hierarchy diagram, score all endpoints o…
- Tls
- Pki
- Post Quantum Cryptography
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Pre-Register and Run a Small Neural-Network Ablation Study
You will study how three architectural and regularization choices (depth: 2/4/8 hidden layers; activation: ReLU vs. GELU; weight decay: 0 / 1e-4 / 1e-3) affect a small MLP's tes…
- Neural Networks
- Regularization
- Experiment Design
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
Reposition Mason & Co. to Win Younger Shoppers
Acting as the brand strategist Mason & Co. has retained, design a repositioning proposal for the chain using only the four supplied materials: the company case file, the custome…
- Brand Repositioning
- Customer Segmentation
- Retail Marketing
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
Designing a Six Sigma Project for a Renewable Energy Manufacturer
You are given historical warranty data and production process maps. Your task is to create a comprehensive Six Sigma project charter including a problem statement, goal statemen…
- Six Sigma
- Dmaic
- Measurement System 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.
- CodeSeniorNew
Diagnose Heap Corruption in a Trading Firm's Order Gateway
Working only from the materials in this case file, reconstruct what is corrupting the heap. Read the representative order-pool allocator module (item: gateway-allocator-module) …
- Cpp Programming
- Manual Memory Management
- Pointers
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
Service Quality Improvement for a Regional Hospital Chain
Your task is to conduct a gap analysis using SERVQUAL dimensions (reliability, responsiveness, assurance, empathy, tangibles) based on patient survey data (provided). Identify t…
- Service Quality
- Servqual
- Process Improvement
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Design a Lock-Free Concurrent Skip List for a Time-Series Database
Using the baseline implementation and benchmark harness in the provided code module (baseline-skiplist-rs), design and build a lock-free skip list that replaces the mutex-guarde…
- Lock Free
- Concurrent Data Structures
- Rust Programming
Open coursework - DesignSeniorNew
Prototype a Gaussian-Splatting Capture App for Consumer AR
You will design and prototype (no app-store deploy required) a 5-step capture-to-share flow: (1) capture about 60 photos with on-screen guidance, (2) upload to a backend job que…
- Gaussian Splatting
- Neural Scene Representation
- Product Design
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- DesignSeniorNew
Structuring an Interest Rate Swap for a UK Infrastructure Fund
You are a structured finance associate at a bank advising InfraBridge. Design a plain vanilla interest rate swap that converts the floating-rate liability to fixed. Provide the …
- Interest Rate Swaps
- Derivatives Pricing
- Credit Risk
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Implement a Pipelined RISC-V (RV32I) Core for Automotive Telemetry
Implement a classic 5-stage RV32I pipeline in SystemVerilog. Include data-forwarding from EX/MEM and MEM/WB back to EX, a load-use stall, and branch resolution in EX with a 1-cy…
- Systemverilog
- Risc V
- Pipelining
Digital Systems Design - ResearchSeniorNew
Diagnose the Levers of Control at a Stockholm Fintech
Investigate how one real, publicly observable Stockholm fintech (Klarna is the recommended subject) balances Robert Simons' four Levers of Control — belief systems, boundary sys…
- Levers Of Control
- Qualitative Research
- Contingency Theory
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
Restructure a Copenhagen Sustainable Fashion Brand into Cross-Functional Teams
Using only the internal organizational case file, the time-to-market log, and the staff sentiment summary provided to you, design a cross-functional team structure and a plan to…
- Organizational Structure Design
- Cross Functional Collaboration
- Conflict Resolution
Open coursework - CodeSeniorNew
Design a Polyhedral Loop-Tiling Strategy for a Tensor DSL
Study the DSL's IR (provided, MLIR-based with linalg-style ops). Choose a tiling strategy (rectangular tiling with cost-modeled tile sizes is the safe baseline; full polyhedral …
- Polyhedral Analysis
- Loop Tiling
- Mlir
Advanced Compilers and Program Optimization - DesignSeniorNew
Build an Edge MLOps Pipeline for a Smart-Agriculture Sensor
You receive a fleet simulator (1,000 simulated sensors with bandwidth + battery profiles), a model registry stub, and the current firmware's model-loading interface. Design and …
- Edge Mlops
- Ota Updates
- Model Versioning
Open coursework - 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 - ResearchSeniorNew
Compare NewSQL Architectures for a Real-Time Inventory Platform
Working only from the materials provided — the de-identified evaluation file (case_file_inventory_eval), the contentious-transactions specification (transactions_spec), and the …
- Newsql
- Distributed Databases
- Raft
Open coursework - ResearchSeniorNew
Design a Distributed-Training Strategy for a Mid-Sized LLM
You will write a 5-page design memo that picks a parallelism strategy for fine-tuning a 13B model on 32 H100 GPUs, with a tokens-per-second estimate, a memory-per-GPU calculatio…
- Distributed Training
- Parallelism Strategies
- LLM Training
Open coursework - StrategySeniorNew
Procurement Digitalization Roadmap for a Mid-Size Manufacturer
As a digital procurement consultant, you must assess the current procurement process, identify pain points, and propose a digitalization roadmap. This includes selecting softwar…
- Procurement Digitalization
- Process Mapping
- Change Management
Procurement and Strategic Sourcing - StrategySeniorNew
Assess ESG Integration in a Family Office Portfolio
Analyze the current portfolio's ESG ratings using MSCI or Sustainalytics data (provided). Identify sectors with high carbon footprint and poor social scores. Recommend a new ass…
- ESG Integration
- Portfolio Optimization
- Impact Measurement
Wealth Management - AnalysisSeniorNew
Time a 500-Million-Euro Solar Investment to the Eurozone Cycle
You are SunVista's economic analyst, and the Chief Financial Officer has asked you for a decision-ready report that guides the timing of the 500-million-euro solar build-out. Wo…
- Business Cycle Analysis
- Macroeconomic Forecasting
- Investment Timing
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