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Harvard Business School MBA Interview Questions & Report: Round 1 / Adcom / On-Campus

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I only had the AdCom member in my interview, and did not have an observer.

Here are the questions they asked:
1) I see you were on campus in [month]. What class did you visit? What did you like about it?
2) You grew up in [Country]. Do you remember any of it? Keep in touch with any of your friends from there?
3) So that’s how you started [niche EC]. I can’t imagine that was a thing in [NewCountry]. Makes sense!
4) How did you like [UG university]?
5) Why did you pick it?
6) Why did you get involved in student government?
7) How did your role change over time?
8) What would you have done differently or changed about your time?
9) Why [major] vs [other major]? I see you wrote a lot about [other major]?
10) What makes you an effective [current role]?
11) Tell me about [specific project on resume]? You were directly working for [high-level role]?
12) What have you learned from your team?
13) What is the most valuable piece of feedback you’ve received?
14) What does personal relationships matter with your clients? How does it make the work better?
15) How did you get involved with [EC volunteering]?
16) But this was an unpaid role? What was the difference between the job and the volunteer part?
17) What was the [job function] that you did? Tell me about it.
18) What mattered most to your about your time at [EC volunteering]?
19) Why [career choice]?
20) What do you want to bring to [career choice]?
21) What is your ideal internship?
22) What is going on with [niche career news topic]?
23) What do you want to bring to these companies? What can you add? Why do [career choice and function]?
24) How do you want to be remembered at the end of your career?
25) Anything else?


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