High-level questions about you:
- Tell me about yourself
- Walk me through your resume
- How would your friends/coworkers/supervisor describe you?
- What are your biggest weaknesses?
- What are your biggest strengths?
Questions about why you want to go to business school and future goals
- Why do you think now is the time for you to go back to school?
- What do you hope to learn in business school?
- What do you think you will contribute that will be unique among your classmates?
- Why do you want to come to this school?
- Where else are you applying?
- Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Questions about specific experiences in your background
SAR: situation-action-result
Leadership:
- Discuss a time when you successfully supervised a diverse group of people toward a difficult goal.
- Give an example of when you accomplished something significant that wouldn’t have happened if you hadn’t been there.
- Tell me about a situation where you had to persuade someone to agree with your point of view
- Describe a time when you had to gain upper management’s support for an idea/proposal.
- Name a time when you had to convince someone who didn’t report directly to you to do something they didn’t want to do.
- Describe a situation in which you identified key problems early on in a project and were able to avert a crisis.
- Tell me about a time when you led a team to a goal even though the individual team members were skeptical that it could be accomplished.
- Discuss a time when you had to make an unpopular decision.
Teamwork
- Tell me about the toughest group that you ever worked in. what made it so tough, and how did you handle it?
- Describe a time when you have a conflict with another person in a corporate or school setting.
- Tell me about a time when you worked with someone who didn’t follow through. What did you do?
- How have you dealt with a person who was difficult to work with?
Ethics
- Describe an ethical dilemma that you faced in your career. How did you resolve it?
- Give me an example of when you pushed back against doing something.
- What is the hardest decision you have ever had to make on the job? Outside of your job?
Innovation
- Name a time when you developed a unique and resourceful solution to a problem.
- Describe a situation when you had to make an important decision without having all of the necessary information at hand.
- Tell me about a time when you had to analyze facts quickly, identify the issues, and develop an action plan.
- Give me an example of when you thought out of the box.
- Tell me about a time when you took a smart risk.
- Have you ever had to bend a rule to get your work done more efficiently?
Maturity
- Tell me about your most spectacular failure. What happened? What did you learn?
- What happened, what went wrong, what you learned, and how you applied that lesson in a later situation.
- Discuss a time when you didn’t succeed on the first try.
- What is the worst professional decision you have ever made?
- Tell me about a time when you weren’t very pleased with your performance.
- Describe a situation in which you wish you had acted differently with someone in your group.
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