healthcare pharmaceutical biotech life sciences Case Interview Questions & Answers

Boehringer Ingelheim to Optimize Current R&D Portfolio

Case Type: organizational behavior; operations strategy.
Consulting Firm: Siemens Management Consulting (SMC) first round summer internship job interview.
Industry Coverage: healthcare: pharmaceutical, biotech, life sciences.

Case Interview Question #00670: You are part of our management consulting team working for German pharmaceutical company Boehringer Ingelheim. Founded in 1885, the Boehringer Ingelheim group now is one of the world’s top 20 leading pharmaceutical companies. Headquartered… Read the rest

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Amgen to Launch Its Popular Anti-clotting Drug in France

Case Type: market entry, new market.
Consulting Firm: Huron Consulting Group second round full time job interview.
Industry Coverage: healthcare: pharmaceutical, biotech, life sciences.

Case Interview Question #00649: The client Amgen (NASDAQ: AMGN) is a global biopharmaceutical company headquartered in Thousand Oaks, California, United States. It is one of the world’s largest independent biotechnology firms. Amgen currently has one drug on the market sold… Read the rest

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Roche to Buy San Francisco Based Genentech for $46.8 Billion

Case Type: merger and acquisition (M&A).
Consulting Firm: Huron Consulting Group first round job interview.
Industry Coverage: healthcare: pharmaceutical, biotech, life sciences.

Case Interview Question #00632: Our client F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd. (SIX: ROG) is a global health care group company that operates worldwide under two divisions: Pharmaceuticals and Diagnostics. With its headquarter located in Basel, Switzerland, the company has many pharmaceutical and diagnostic… Read the rest

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Valeant’s New Asthma Drug Approved by Canada FDA

Case Type: pricing & valuation; new product.
Consulting Firm: FTI Consulting first round summer internship job interview.
Industry Coverage: healthcare: pharmaceutical, biotech, life sciences.

Case Interview Question #00626: Our client Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. (NYSE: VRX, TSX: VRX) is a Canadian pharmaceutical company with activities spanning the drug discovery pipeline from target identification through clinical trials and commercialization. Headquartered in Laval, Quebec, Read the rest

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Forest Laboratories to Increase R&D Spending & Productivity

Case Type: human capital, organizational behavior.
Consulting Firm: IMS Consulting Group second round job interview.
Industry Coverage: healthcare: pharmaceutical, biotech, life sciences.

Case Interview Question #00613: Our client Forest Laboratories Inc. (NYSE: FRX) is a large pharmaceutical company headquartered in New York City, United States. The company’s research and development (R & D) spending has grown rapidly in recent years, and as of 2011,… Read the rest

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