Case – Candidate Preparation Materials
This document is intended to help prepare you for the case portion of a McKinsey& Company interview. While interviewers at McKinsey have a good deal of flexibility in creating the cases they use in an interview, we believe that the following case is a good example of the type of case many of our interviewers use. The example below is set up to teach you how to approach a typical case. The italicized sections are descriptions or instructions to help you navigate through this document. The words in plain bold font are the descriptions and questions an interviewer may give to you during the interview. The sections in regular (non-bold) font are possible answers.

Example Case: Magna Health
Context
The interviewer will typically start the case by giving a brief overview of the context, ending with a question that is the problem definition. At the end of the description you will have an opportunity to ask any questions you might have to clarify the information that has been provided to you. Our client is Magna Health, a health care company in the Midwest. It both insures patients and provides health care services. Employers pay a fixed premium to Magna for each of their employees in return for which Magna covers all necessary health services of the employee (ranging from physician care, and medications to hospitalization) Magna currently has 300,000 patients enrolled in its plan. It has 300 salaried physician employees who provide a broad range of services to patients in 6 centers. These physicians represent a wide range of specialty areas, but not all areas. When a patient needs medical treatment in a specialty area not covered by a Magna physician, they are referred outside of the Magna network for care, and Magna pays all referral costs on a fee-for-service basis. Magna doesn’t own any hospitals itself, instead contracting services from several local hospitals. Over the past six months, Magna has been experiencing declining