I was very well prepared for the questions on this site and in the interview guide. I also did three mock interviews with a Clear Admit consultant. While this preparation was limited in its helpfulness to the actual questions I received, it did give me the utmost of confidence which is the key!
The female adcom member, who was joined by another woman who was “in training to conduct interviews,” focused her questions on a leadership experience and my career vision that I presented in the application.
Here’s an outline of the questions:
- An opening question about my experience at XYZ University
- What is your opinion of the application process thus far?
- Tell me about your leadership style
- What would be your biggest challenge at HBS?
- A LOT of questions about the leadership experience:
- Tell me more about organization X other than what is in your application?
- What would you change about organization X?
- What else would you change about X?
- How do you plan to implement the changes?
A LOT about my career interest. She even quoted a sentence from my career interestand tried to put me on the defensive (don’t ever become defensive!):
- How do you go about attaining X?
- What is the impact on stakeholder X?
- Impact on stakeholder Y?
- Stakeholder Z?
- Something to the effect of “how do you win the argument and who is currently winning the argument?”
- With all this topic-specific stuff, why an MBA?
- Why an MBA now?
- What would you do if you were not accepted?
- No time for questions but is there anything you wish we would have talked about? (Always have two or three strong points/pitches here)
Best of luck to everyone!
