Cases

Yale SOM Case Practice

Jul 6, 2026 · Market entry · 35 min · Zoom

Overall readiness

How ready you are

Fair

You were strongest in Clarifying Questions and Recommendation. The main areas to lift are Prompt Understanding, Framework Building, and Analysis, which kept the session at Fair.

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Main area for improvement

The opening missed the core task framing, so the case started without a crisp statement that this was a market-entry decision about whether playworks should enter astroturf.

Your recap captured the client and customer base, but it stopped short of stating the central decision: whether Playworks should enter the AstroTurf market.
That left the case objective less precise than it needed to be before the rest of the interview began.

Main strength

You asked high-value clarifying questions and closed with a direct recommendation, which kept the case pointed at the right objective and produced a usable final answer.

You clarified the two biggest unknowns early: the decision criterion was profitability and the scope was the US market. That gave the case a workable target before you built the framework.
You also opened the recommendation with a clear decision and target segment, which made the close easy to follow.

Do this next

Focus the next session on two habits: a sharper opening and more auditable analysis.

Open every case with the decision statement in one sentence.
End every framework with one concrete first test and the reason it comes first.
Run calculations with formula, units, intermediate result, and sanity check stated aloud.

Do drill

Readiness level

Framework building
Prompt understanding
Clarifying questions

Based on 40 resolved evidence anchors from the transcript. Analysis is based on the meeting transcript. Visual materials, screen share, slides, whiteboards, and nonverbal delivery were not analyzed. Executive presence and delivery traits are only partially inferable from text transcript without audio.