I was not expecting you to write codes or anything out here. Just learning how to program is not enough. Important thing is how you think about solving problems. What models do you use? How do you go about interpreting them? And, you would have to be pretty familiar with macros to handle multiple data sets. Else, you would spend hours doing something that could be done in 20 minutes.

Some of the things I was expecting you to mention were survival analysis, hazard models etc. since I was also talking about time to profits, time to exit etc. And, in most cases, you do a market study as well as company specific study to see if there are differences in the way they perform.

BTW, most firms don't even care if you know how to program in SAS because you can easily learn it. The important thing is your ability to think creatively. If you can have a combo of the two, you should be in....Good luck!!!