Currently practicing for case study interview and have been looking at various books( Victor Cheng case interview secrets, Taylor Warfield hacking the case) and online. Main difference in approach I see is forming a hypothesis… is hypothesis forming a must in case study interview? Taylor doesn’t hypothesis forming and i feel it’s an easier approach for me. Any thoughts?

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It really depends on the type of case you are solving

The hypotheses forming and testing method makes perfect sense in these types of cases:
1. Problem-solving - i.e. the client has faced a profit decline and wants to understand why it has happened - than your structure should be the list of hypotheses of potential root causes of the profit decline
2. Financial improvement - i.e. the client wants to boost revenue - then the hypotheses are what are different ways to increase it
3. Operational efficiency - pretty much same thing

However, if we are talking about market entry / product launch / investment / strategic growth cases, then here the hypotheses don't make much sense

Here it is better to structure as list of questions. For instance, if a company wants to enter the market, you would like to answer such questions as:
- how big is the demand in this market?
- will the demand be growing or declining in the upcoming years?
- how fierce is the competition?
- do we have enough capabilities to execute

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