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Harvard MBA Admissions Interview Questions: On campus / Round 1

General questions that I remember:

  • Some discussion around my undergraduate experience as warm-up (somewhat surprising since it’s been about 3.5 years since I graduated)
  • Some questions specific to my essays – details to understand the situation better
  • Why I decided to switch jobs; what was different between the two companies.
  • How do you handle conflict?
  • What do you think will be challenging about HBS?
  • What is your “dream job”?
  • Why are you unique?

Overall the interviewer was fairly friendly (not a stress interview). However, a word of warning is that they WILL press you anything you say…so don’t bring up extraneous topics or examples unless you’re willing to go in-depth on them.