What books have the best Mckinsey style cases?
Currently using Hacking the case interview and the case interview:20 days to ace the case. TIA!!!

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Use business school casebooks. NYU stern, Kellogg and darden are the best imo

Awesome. I will check these out. Thank you for sharing.

Case coach. Stay away from casebooks, as they’re prone to be full of errors and are unnecessarily tricky (not reflective of McKinsey cases)

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