The Tuck Casebook 2024: all 12 cases, and how to practice them out loud
The Tuck Consulting Club's 2024 casebook is short and deliberate: 12 cases in 142 pages. Five are new cases from Tuck students, one is a refreshed old favorite, and six are sponsored cases written by consulting firms and specialist case writers. The club says plainly that it is not meant to hold every case you need, but to offer learning-oriented cases and firm-specific practice.
This page lists all 12 by industry and case type, with the firm behind each sponsored case. The prompts, exhibits and answers stay in the book.
- Edition
- 2024
- Pages
- 142
- Practice cases
- 12
What is in the Tuck 2024 casebook
- 12 cases
- Growth strategy, M&A, operations, profitability, opportunity assessment and market entry, with difficulty marked by ski-trail symbols from easy to expert only.
- Sponsored cases
- Cases from firms and case writers, including L.E.K., EY-Parthenon, Innosight and IGS, useful practice for those firms' own interviews.
- Recruiting and fit advice
- What every aspiring consultant needs to know, a month-by-month plan, and common fit questions. The club weighs fit as half the decision.
- A cross-casebook index
- Pointers to the best sections of other schools' books, such as Booth for case math and frameworks and Kellogg for case sequencing.
The book's plan runs from September to January: an easy case with a mentor first, intermediate cases with second-years, difficult cases by the end of the year, and in early January the expert-only pressure cases plus a sponsored case from the firm you are interviewing with. It also surveys the class: 54 percent started casing in October and 33 percent in September.
Its strongest advice is about fit. The club treats fit as half of the decision and says the most common mistake is starting fit preparation too late, so it puts fit prep in the plan from October.
Five cases to start with
A spread across case types and firms. The book marks difficulty with ski-trail symbols, so check those before you pick. None of these is live on Tough Tongue AI yet, so run them with a partner or build one yourself.
- 1 In the book
Craft Co
An EY-Parthenon growth case. It also appears in Booth's casebook, where it is rated 1 out of 3 overall.
- 2 In the book
Aftermarket Auto Parts
An L.E.K. growth strategy case in automotive, good practice for L.E.K.'s own interviews.
- 3 In the book
OldSchool
A public sector profitability case: the profit tree in an organization that is not chasing profit.
- 4 In the book
Hanover Health
A healthcare M&A case, one of the book's two acquisition cases.
- 5 In the book
Tuck Air II
An airline opportunity assessment, a case type that rewards a clear go or no-go call.
Every case in the Tuck 2024 casebook
As the club's own index lists them.
| Case | Written with | Type | Industry | Practice |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aftermarket Auto Parts | L.E.K. | Growth strategy | Automotive | Build it |
| Craft Co | EY-Parthenon | Growth strategy | Retail and CPG | Build it |
| Hanover Health | Mergers and acquisitions | Healthcare | Build it | |
| Kitchen Co | Innosight | Growth strategy | Retail and CPG | Build it |
| Luxury Landscaping | IGS | Mergers and acquisitions | Engineering and construction | Build it |
| Nutters of Savile Row | Operations | Retail and CPG | Build it | |
| OldSchool | Profitability | Government and public sector | Build it | |
| Pediatric Hearing Aids | Profitability | Healthcare | Build it | |
| PowerStride Sportswear | Growth strategy | Retail and CPG | Build it | |
| Snow Big Deal | Opportunity assessment | Transportation and logistics | Build it | |
| SwitchDeck Motors | Market entry | Automotive | Build it | |
| Tuck Air II | Opportunity assessment | Airlines | Build it |
Case names, types and ratings are from the Tuck Consulting Club, Dartmouth 2024 casebook. Descriptions on this site are our own.
Practicing Tuck 2024 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 38 cases in the Tough Tongue AI collection, from the Kellogg, Wharton and Booth books, 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 12 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
Booth 2024-25 casebook
45 cases, 3 live
Fuqua 2023-24 casebook
18 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 Tuck 2024 casebook?
12: five new cases written by Tuck students, a refreshed old favorite, and six sponsored cases from consulting firms and specialist case writers. The 142-page book also covers recruiting, fit preparation and casing concepts.
Where can I find the Tuck casebook PDF?
The Tuck Consulting Club writes it for its members, and copies circulate among MBA consulting clubs. We do not host it. Your own school's consulting club is the best place to ask.
Which firms wrote cases in the Tuck casebook?
The 2024 case list names L.E.K. (Aftermarket Auto Parts), EY-Parthenon (Craft Co), Innosight (Kitchen Co) and IGS (Luxury Landscaping). A sponsored case is useful practice right before an interview with that firm, which is how the club suggests using them.
When should I start case interview prep?
Tuck's 2024 survey of its own class found that 54 percent started casing in October and 33 percent in September, and the club's plan runs from September to interviews in January. It also treats fit as half of the decision and warns that starting fit preparation late is the most common mistake.
Can I practice Tuck casebook cases with an AI interviewer?
Not out of the box yet: none of its cases is in the Tough Tongue AI collection. You can build any of them yourself. The open-source case-interview-builder skill turns casebook pages into an interviewer-led case with an exhibit deck, a hidden answer key and a rubric, run from Claude, ChatGPT, Codex or Cursor with the Tough Tongue MCP server. Meanwhile, 38 cases from the Kellogg, Wharton and Booth books run live today.
Run a live case tonight
Pick an easy case from the collection, run it out loud and on the clock, and read where the points went.
Browse the 38 live cases