The Booth Casebook 2024-25: all 45 cases, and how to practice them out loud
The Chicago Booth Management Consulting Group casebook for 2024-25 has the most cases of the three books on this site: 45 practice cases in 385 pages. Its index is unusually useful because every case names the firm it is modeled on and carries three ratings from 1 (easiest) to 3 (hardest): overall, quant, and creativity, meaning how hard it is to build the framework and brainstorm.
This page lists all 45 with those labels, plus the cases you can run with an AI interviewer today. The prompts, exhibits and answers stay in the book.
- Edition
- 2024-25
- Pages
- 385
- Practice cases
- 45
- Live with an AI interviewer
- 3
What is in the Booth 2024-25 casebook
- 45 cases
- Modeled on McKinsey, Bain, BCG, Deloitte, L.E.K., Strategy&, Accenture, A.T. Kearney, ZS, KPMG, EY-Parthenon, Cornerstone Research and undisclosed firms.
- Fit interview prep
- How to prepare fit stories, common fit questions and worked story structures.
- Case interview prep
- The structure of a case, common mistakes, case practice and evaluation.
- Resources
- Sample frameworks, supplemental case information, case math, clearing charts, an industry checklist and Zoom best practices.
The book describes a full interview as a fit section and a business case together, 40 to 60 minutes in all, and it is firm that the interviewer is judging you in both parts, not just the case.
Because every case is tagged by firm, it is the easiest of the three books to aim at a specific interview. Eight cases are listed as McKinsey-style, eight as Bain-style and seven as BCG-style, and Deloitte, L.E.K., Strategy&, Accenture and others have the rest.
Five cases to start with
Roughly easy to hard, using the club's own 1 to 3 ratings. The ones marked live run tonight with an AI interviewer; the others need a partner or a case you build yourself.
- 1 Run live →
Breast Cancer Surgery
Rated 1 on all three scales. A revenue-maximizing price from one adoption-by-price exhibit, the gentlest start in the book.
- 2 Run live →
Army Hotel
A McKinsey-style, interviewer-driven market entry rated 2 across the board: pricing against a per diem and a breakeven.
- 3 Run live →
Burger Palace
Rated 2 overall. A bottom-up customer sizing from airport gates and load factors, then breakeven market share.
- 4 In the book
International Airlines
Bain-style profitability rated 1 overall, a good candidate-led warm-up to run with a partner.
- 5 In the book
Finance Co
Rated 3 on every scale. Save it for the last weeks, when you want a case that pushes back.
Every case in the Booth 2024-25 casebook
As the club's own index lists them. Ratings run from 1 (easiest) to 3 (hardest): overall, quant for the math, and creativity for how hard the framework and brainstorm are.
| # | Case | Modeled on | Type | Industry | Overall | Quant | Creativity | Practice |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Army Hotel | McKinsey | Market entry | Hospitality | 2 | 2 | 2 | Run live → |
| 2 | Breast Cancer Surgery | L.E.K. | Profitability | Healthcare | 1 | 1 | 1 | Run live → |
| 3 | Burger Palace | Undisclosed | Market entry | Restaurants, food and beverage | 2 | 2 | 1 | Run live → |
| 4 | Chicken Pox Vaccine | Undisclosed | Market sizing | Pharmaceuticals and healthcare | 3 | 3 | 2 | Build it |
| 5 | Cleaning Products | McKinsey | Growth strategy | Consumer products | 1 | 2 | 1 | Build it |
| 6 | Coffee and Tea Apparel | Deloitte | Mergers and acquisitions | Retail and apparel | 2 | 3 | 1 | Build it |
| 7 | Commercial Vehicle OEM in China | Strategy& | Growth strategy | Transportation and automotive | 2 | 2 | 2 | Build it |
| 8 | Consumer Products Strategy | BCG | Market entry | Consumer products | 2 | 2 | 3 | Build it |
| 9 | Contact Lenses | McKinsey | Profitability | Consumer products | 2 | 2 | 2 | Build it |
| 10 | Deepwater Inc. | Undisclosed | Investment decision | Energy | 3 | 1 | 3 | Build it |
| 11 | Electric Utility | McKinsey | Profitability | Energy | 2 | 1 | 2 | Build it |
| 12 | Elena's Electronics | Undisclosed | Profitability | Consumer electronics | 2 | 2 | 1 | Build it |
| 13 | Finance Co | Bain | Growth strategy | Financial services | 3 | 3 | 3 | Build it |
| 14 | French Beauty Co | Accenture | Operating model | Retail and apparel | 2 | 1 | 2 | Build it |
| 15 | German Telecom | BCG | Profitability | Telecommunications | 2 | 2 | 1 | Build it |
| 16 | Green Co | Deloitte | Investment decision | Retail and leisure | 3 | 3 | 1 | Build it |
| 17 | GreenShield Health Insurance | Strategy& | Market entry | Financial services and insurance | 2 | 2 | 1 | Build it |
| 18 | Hawaiian Smoothies | BCG | Market entry | Restaurants, food and beverage | 2 | 2 | 2 | Build it |
| 19 | Heavy Attrition | ZS Associates | Organizational change | Healthcare | 1 | 1 | 2 | Build it |
| 20 | International Airlines | Bain | Profitability | Transportation | 1 | 2 | 1 | Build it |
| 21 | Katrina | BCG | Non-traditional | Non-profit and education | 2 | 1 | 2 | Build it |
| 22 | Linda's Great Burgers | McKinsey | Mergers and acquisitions | Restaurants, food and beverage | 2 | 1 | 2 | Build it |
| 23 | Lola Lo's Zoo | Undisclosed | Investment decision | Entertainment | 3 | 3 | 3 | Build it |
| 24 | Lost Patent | A.T. Kearney | Revenue | Pharmaceuticals and healthcare | 2 | 1 | 3 | Build it |
| 25 | Midwest Machinery Co. | Bain | Sourcing and outsourcing | Industrial goods | 3 | 3 | 2 | Build it |
| 26 | New Vaccine | L.E.K. | Market entry | Pharmaceuticals and healthcare | 2 | 2 | 1 | Build it |
| 27 | Payments Company | Deloitte | Profitability | Financial services | 2 | 2 | 1 | Build it |
| 28 | Pharmaceutical Rare Disease | BCG | Growth strategy | Pharmaceuticals and healthcare | 3 | 3 | 2 | Build it |
| 29 | Project Gargoyle | Bain | Investment decision | Hair care products | 3 | 2 | 3 | Build it |
| 30 | PyeongChang Winter Olympics | McKinsey | Investment decision | Tech, media and telecom | 3 | 3 | 3 | Build it |
| 31 | Quahog Public Schools | McKinsey | Non-traditional | Non-profit and education | 3 | 2 | 3 | Build it |
| 32 | Retirement Apartment Complexes | Undisclosed | Market entry | Real estate | 2 | 3 | 2 | Build it |
| 33 | Skylight Goods | BCG | Operations | Industrial goods | 3 | 3 | 2 | Build it |
| 34 | Smart Cards | McKinsey | Growth strategy | Tech, media and telecom | 2 | 1 | 3 | Build it |
| 35 | Student Health Insurance | Deloitte | Growth strategy | Insurance | 2 | 2 | 3 | Build it |
| 36 | Super Jr. Baby Formula | Bain | Investment decision | Consumer products | 3 | 3 | 2 | Build it |
| 37 | Apache Helicopter | Undisclosed | Investment decision | Industrial goods | 3 | 3 | 3 | Build it |
| 38 | White Boards | Bain | Sourcing and outsourcing | Durable goods | 2 | 1 | 2 | Build it |
| 39 | Telco Talks | Accenture | Mergers and acquisitions | Telecommunications | 2 | 2 | 1 | Build it |
| 40 | Yarmouth Yachts | Cornerstone Research | Legal analysis | Luxury retail | 1 | 1 | 1 | Build it |
| 41 | Sueno Mattress | KPMG Strategy | Profitability | Consumer products | 1 | 1 | 2 | Build it |
| 42 | Cruise Line Acquisition | BCG | Profitability | Travel and tourism | 3 | 2 | 3 | Build it |
| 43 | Shoe Co. | Bain | Market entry | Consumer products | 2 | 2 | 1 | Build it |
| 44 | Craft Co. | EY-Parthenon | Profitability | Consumer products | 1 | 2 | 1 | Build it |
| 45 | Telecom Co. | Bain | Market entry | Telecom | 3 | 3 | 2 | Build it |
Case names, types and ratings are from the Management Consulting Group, Chicago Booth 2024-25 casebook. Descriptions on this site are our own.
Practicing Booth 2024-25 cases out loud
A casebook shows you the exhibit next to the answer. A live case does not, and that is the whole difference. The 3 cases marked live above run as voice interviews: the interviewer gives the prompt, answers your clarifying questions from the casebook's own information, puts each exhibit on your screen when the case reaches it, waits while you do the math, and pushes back on your recommendation with something you said.
The report compares your numbers with the casebook's answer key and scores structure, math, judgment and communication. Every live case runs interviewer-led, even where a book writes it interviewee-led, so for candidate-led drills a partner who makes you ask for each piece of data is still the better rep.
The rest of the book
For the 42 cases marked "Build it", the open-source case-interview-builder skill turns the casebook pages into the same kind of live case: an exhibit deck, an interviewer-led script with the answer key hidden from you, a weighted rubric and a study guide. It runs in Claude Code, Codex, Cursor and other agents with the Tough Tongue MCP server.
Or run them the classic way with a partner, swapping interviewer and candidate. Giving a case teaches you almost as much as taking one, because you see how much of the score is decided by the first two minutes.
Other casebooks and guides
Kellogg 2024 casebook
36 cases, 13 live
Wharton 2024-25 casebook
18 cases, 9 live
Fuqua 2023-24 casebook
18 cases
Tuck 2024 casebook
12 cases
McKinsey practice cases
McKinsey's own samples and where to drill each question type
All 38 live cases
Case interview prep hub
Guides: MBB case interview prep with AI · the best AI case interview tools · practicing cases by yourself
Frequently asked questions
How many cases are in the Chicago Booth 2024-25 casebook?
45. The book's index lists each one with the consulting firm it is modeled on, its case type, its industry, and three ratings from 1 to 3 for overall difficulty, math and framework creativity.
Where can I find the Booth casebook PDF?
Booth's Management Consulting Group writes it for its members, and copies circulate among MBA consulting clubs and prep communities. We do not host it. Your school's consulting club is the best place to ask. Cases 1 to 3 can be practiced on Tough Tongue AI without the PDF.
Which Booth casebook cases are McKinsey-style?
The 2024-25 index lists eight cases as modeled on McKinsey: Army Hotel, Cleaning Products, Contact Lenses, Electric Utility, Linda's Great Burgers, PyeongChang Winter Olympics, Quahog Public Schools and Smart Cards. McKinsey cases are interviewer-led, so these are the ones to drill for a McKinsey first round.
What do the Booth casebook difficulty ratings mean?
Each case gets three scores from 1 (easiest) to 3 (hardest). Overall is the general difficulty, quant is how much math the case involves, and creativity is how hard it is to build the framework and brainstorm. Breast Cancer Surgery and Yarmouth Yachts score 1 on all three; Finance Co, Lola Lo's Zoo, PyeongChang Winter Olympics and Apache Helicopter score 3 on all three.
Can I practice Booth casebook cases with an AI interviewer?
Yes. 3 of its cases run on Tough Tongue AI as voice interviews: the interviewer gives you the prompt, puts each exhibit on your screen when the case reaches it, waits while you do the math, pushes back on your recommendation, and grades you against the case's own answer key. For any other case in the book, the open-source case-interview-builder skill turns the casebook pages into an interviewer-led case with a hidden answer key, run from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor.
Run a Booth 2024-25 case tonight
Start with Breast Cancer Surgery, out loud and on the clock, and read where the points went.
Run Breast Cancer Surgery