Time: 30min. for Adcom interview, more than 30min for Alumni interview.
HBS Interview Tips:
HBS interviews (like MIT's) are based on your application. Unlike the blind interviews conducted by most schools, the interviewer has read your essays and other material already. They know your application better than you yourself do, So be very well prepared to answer anything that you've put down there
HBS wants to see fit. Have examples of leadership. Know why you want a case-method school. Always think about what they are looking for, what you are offering and what the concrete, compelling - interesting! - link is between you and the institution's needs.
Be ready to respond to any questions about weaknesses or gaps in your application.
Prepare to explain reasons behind your career choices, your motivations, and why you think you can succeed.
They frequently ask questions about what you do in your free time or personal reading.
Be yourself. I think they're looking to put a personality to an application.
Most importantly, remember you are leader, stress that point, No matter what questions she asks, tune your answer to that point.
Focus on preparing examples to answer questions on leadership, strengths and weaknesses and how you will accomplish your career goals. Read your app thoroughly, and if possible talk to your recommenders about what they wrote so you can be prepared to answer questions raised from your app package.
Come up with at least 2 examples of your track record on leadership, failures, achievement, strengths & weaknesses, goals etc.
Be intelligent in anticipating questions, but don't anticipate answers - they must reflect your true personality or you will fail. Don't forget the interview is also a personal interaction besides simply "selling" yourself to the adcom.
Be sure to answer this question, whether or not it is asked: Why would the school be proud to have me as an alumni?
Prepare at least three questions for the interviewer in case being asked to.
Work/career related:
Tell me about your career. Why you made choices along your career starting with what choices you had graduation.
When you find your first job, what are the criteria you used and why you ended up choosing the company you are working for now?
Why you chose your undergraduate major? Why Finance?
Tell me about a time you had a conflict with a client and how you resolved it.
Tell me about a time when you dealt with a difficult person at work/client. What did you do?
Tell me about a time when you were challenged at work.
What did you find most challenging dealing with your clients? What’s their problem?
Describe a time you had to implement a change and make your team follow you.
Can you describe to me what you do pretending I’m a lay person?
Why are you good at what you do?
What would be your dream job (if you had no considerations for money etc.)? What would you be doing if you had not taken your current job.
On short-term/ long-term goals. What do you think would be the challenge in reaching your goal?
On a scale of 1 to 10, compared to your peers, rank yourself in analytical ability. In drive? In confidence? In general, being better than people?
What kind of position do you see yourself in 15 years from now?
Looking back today, what is the one career decision that you think was wrong.
How do you maintain your passion in a place that lacks accountability?
Which company did I admire most and why
Ideally what would you like to achieve in your career.
What would I do with my professional career if MBA's did not exist.
MBA related:
How do you think of the application process? What do you learn?
How did you choose your recommenders?
What specific skills do you want to get out of this program (not just generally what will you gain)?
What would be the three things that you would want you future classmates to ask you?
What do you specifically have to bring to the classroom versus the many others who have done private equity and banking? What would you uniquely add to the HBS class?
What can you contribute to HBS, besides coming from China?
Since you applied, what has happened in your life.
How I will use my current skill set in my next career after business school?
What will be the biggest challenge for you in adjusting to life at HBS?
What makes you think that you are prepared for the academic rigors of XXX?
Leadership related:
Questions on leadership at work, leadership out of work, example of conflict.
What do you find about yourself (strengths and weakness) as a leader in your job?
"What leader in history do you admire most". Tell me about a good leader.
Tell me about how you manage teams. When you said you led a team, what exact people you are leading?
How would you discuss your leadership style.. collaborative or direct?
How have you helped someone else to succeed?
Tell me about a leadership experience where you had to depend upon another person/other people for success.
If someone approached me with an idea, would I take the risk of developing the idea if they would not?
Pls describe a time when you meet major setbacks? What’s impact of your failure?
As a junior person, how did you influence your clients?
How do you motivate people senior than you?
Since submitting your application, how have you continued to take leadership roles?
Personality related:
Tell me who you are.
What is a misconception people have when they first meet you?
What do you do in your free time?
Do you think you live in the shadow of your father?
If you can change one thing about your past experience (college, etc.) what would it be. What is something from your past that you wish you would have done differently and why? The experience can be from work, school, other activities, or from your personal life.
Asked a lot about choices I had made in my life. Why did I make the choices I did, what other options did I have, what other choices would I have made if I hadn't made the ones I did.
Who is a client you admire and why?
Describe a time you achieved a goal as an individual.
She asked me what I would ask me if I were in her shoes. What questions you prepared but I didn’t ask?
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