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so we can assume that if we don't get an invite on Tuesday that it's over?

I mean the chances of getting an invite later are just extremely small.

what do you guys think??

hey toiysam - no i don't think you should assume that. someone out there will definitely receive an invitation on 7th and 14th feb - and it could be us!

Yes, the first wave is likely to be the largest, but no point in making the assumption. the transparency from HBS is better than any of the other schools I've been looking at... At least we know which days to check. All other days, focus on other things in life :-D !

I second this. Although the odds will be against anyone not receiving an invite on the 31st, it's definitely not over till its over. As admissions said, 31st, 7th or 14th does not mean that a candidate is weaker or stronger...
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Yes, if you don't get invited on the 31st, it's over.

Unless you get invited on the 7th...


Or on the 14th.........


OR


You could be like me and be deferred to the following Round of applicants!

So yeah, I'd say it isn't really over til it's over! :-D
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I would just assume it's game over, and let yourself be surprised if you get an invite in subsequent weeks. Based on the Round 1 historical data, 88% of invitations go out on Monday. Statistically, your odds of getting an invitation fall from roughly 25% to 3%.

That's my plan.
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By what time on the 31st will interview invites be released? thanks! and goodluck to everyone!!!
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By what time on the 31st will interview invites be released? thanks! and goodluck to everyone!!!

First round interviews were sent around 12pm EST. I assume HBS would follow suit in the second round.
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2) People like Sandy who have second-hand experience across applicants and interviewers might be able to tell if Shanghai interview questions are tougher/more random/more unexpected. Or if out of two candidates that seem relatively well-matched, one had a tougher time in Shanghai.

Shanghai interviews last year (and maybe year before) were with Eileen Chang, a well respected and senior HBS adcom member, reports on her are mostly postive in terms of being fair, welcoming etc. with some few folks saying that is only one micron deep, so watch out. . . .some typical responses below fr. kids who interviewed with her in years past both in Shanghai and campus and other cities. I've included some of her typical questions to give you an idea of the Chang experience. BTW, Chang + Dee=BFF.


Duh, if you get an HBS interview, you might think about signing up for a mock interview w. me, there is only SO MUCH anyone can do to prepare you for an interview, but I got a pretty good idea of the process, having done now about 700-1,000 mock interviews. Recently ~100 a year,
https://hbsguru.com/prices.html#4


Hi Sanford,

I had Eileen Chang in Shanghai as predicted. Questions below
So . . .tell me about your job
What companies in [your country] should your classmates know about? (seemed to be wanting now and future type answer)
What has working in [another country] been like? What do you think of [your company] in [other country]? How is it different?
People have an impression that [your country] is all about x and y What else is happening there that i should know about? What kind of clients do you serve?
What is one word that best describes you? Why?
How specifically would you go about developing the practice area within [your company] that you are keen to do post MBA?
What is your perspective on China/Chinese economy?
What is the one thing outside of work that is most important to you?
What else would you like to talk about?

She was very nice and it was very conversational. She was definitely not poker faced - almost warm at times and she seemed to release her prepared questions quite a lot. She mentioned her name twice in the interview (which struck me as slightly unusual and may have been a cue that she wanted me to remember it).

My biggest tip for future international interviewees with her is to focus on interesting businesses/business models and why they are relevant. She seemed genuinely interested in this and quite focussed on how this could be of benefit to the class.

Once again thanks for your help and I will keep you posted on how I go!

Dear Sandy,

So I had the interview with Eileen in Shanghai.
She's very very nice indeed, with a lot more smiles than Dee (lol).It took around 35 mins, and after the interview we discussed sth about Shanghai and our traveling plan.

And the questions are really really similar to the mock one you did with me (yay!).
and I believe I didn't get lost when answering the questions. I tried to keep them shorter!



Hub-City Interview / Harvard Center Shanghai / Eileen Chang

The Harvard Center Shanghai is located in the HSBC tower 5th floor. At the tower reception one gets an entry card to take the elevator to the 5th floor. After exiting the elevator, signs lead the way to the "Waiting area". When I arrived there 20 minutes before my appointment, the whole place was empty. After finding a secretary in another part of the building, I was told to just wait at the assigned area, so I took a seat and read through the Harvard business review which was lying there.

Exactly on time, Eileen Chang welcomed me to the Harvard Center Shanghai and led me to a meeting room with a big table for ~10 persons. Our places at the table were already assigned, opposite to each other. She had my CV and a blank sheet in front of her. On my side there was a HBS pen, which she told me is a present to the applicants. She then told me about the procedure, i.e. that she read my application, that I should use examples/stories not mentioned in my essays, that the interview will last 30 minutes, that she will interrupt me and that I should not be confused about that, and that I will receive my admission decision on December 14th.

In general the questions were very much related to my work with many follow up questions, therefore I also include my answers below (in short). [I can't remember clearly in which order some of the questions were asked, but the script below should resemble the interview.]
The interview was exactly 30 minutes. The atmosphere was very friendly. In the end, her paper was half full with key words from my answers. During the interview she secretly yawned a few times, but was in general very encouraging by keeping eye-contact and nodding from time to time.


Hi Sandy,

Just finished my interview with Chang. I think it went OK. The chemistry is just so-so at the begining when we talked about my jobs, but significantly gets better when she asked about anything else we should know to complete the picture of who you are and then I told her about x and y. The later part of the interview is very relaxed and she repeated twice like "it's really a pleasure talking to you..." I'm very surprised she asked "if there anything we didn't talk about but you want to cover" . . .One thing I could do better is after talking about my childhood expereince, ...I should have behaved more calm down.

Here are the questions

1. Give me an update about my work
2. Explain my role into more details
3. What suggestions I would give to people/company who want to do business in China
4. Talk about the strategy about my firm, how do I think whether my company could catch up with main competitor in 5 years
5. Where do I see myself in 5 years
6. What makes me unique in all X applicants
7. What I can contribute to HBS
8. Anything else I want to talk about
9. What do I do most well and what should I improve
10. What concerned you about attending HBS




I just had the interview with Eileen. It's very hard to tell how it went because she's so professional. She smiled a lot and it was easy to relax.
======She then talked about the standard process of decision and notice and
said that I can email during the process if any questions (she talked
about this for twice in the end and I did not know why)Just had my hbs interview with Eileen (did not mention her last name).
Went ok - got some points across well, others ok I think. Not many
icebreakers at the beginning and generally questions were very specific
to my application - however relaxed atmosphere and time went by very
quickly.

Eileen Chang

The interview went well, mostly the types of things we talked about and I think I did well!
Most of the rest was very specific to me, so we talked about where I am living, why, my travel with my job, how that impacts me, family, and some follow up questions on above like, explain, talk a bit more etc.

It was calm and nice interview, very professional, and a bit short even- seemed we covered everything quickly.
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I can't decide if I should start getting anxious now or on Monday night. This is going to be a very long weekend. Good luck everyone!
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Hi everyone, does anyone have any experience interviewing in Mumbai, India? Any idea who to expect and sorts of questions asked?

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2) People like Sandy who have second-hand experience across applicants and interviewers might be able to tell if Shanghai interview questions are tougher/more random/more unexpected. Or if out of two candidates that seem relatively well-matched, one had a tougher time in Shanghai.

Shanghai interviews last year (and maybe year before) were with Eileen Chang, a well respected and senior HBS adcom member, reports on her are mostly postive in terms of being fair, welcoming etc. with some few folks saying that is only one micron deep, so watch out. . . .some typical responses below fr. kids who interviewed with her in years past both in Shanghai and campus and other cities. I've included some of her typical questions to give you an idea of the Chang experience. BTW, Chang + Dee=BFF.


Duh, if you get an HBS interview, you might think about signing up for a mock interview w. me, there is only SO MUCH anyone can do to prepare you for an interview, but I got a pretty good idea of the process, having done now about 700-1,000 mock interviews. Recently ~100 a year,
https://hbsguru.com/prices.html#4


Hi Sanford,

I had Eileen Chang in Shanghai as predicted. Questions below
So . . .tell me about your job
What companies in [your country] should your classmates know about? (seemed to be wanting now and future type answer)
What has working in [another country] been like? What do you think of [your company] in [other country]? How is it different?
People have an impression that [your country] is all about x and y What else is happening there that i should know about? What kind of clients do you serve?
What is one word that best describes you? Why?
How specifically would you go about developing the practice area within [your company] that you are keen to do post MBA?
What is your perspective on China/Chinese economy?
What is the one thing outside of work that is most important to you?
What else would you like to talk about?

She was very nice and it was very conversational. She was definitely not poker faced - almost warm at times and she seemed to release her prepared questions quite a lot. She mentioned her name twice in the interview (which struck me as slightly unusual and may have been a cue that she wanted me to remember it).

My biggest tip for future international interviewees with her is to focus on interesting businesses/business models and why they are relevant. She seemed genuinely interested in this and quite focussed on how this could be of benefit to the class.

Once again thanks for your help and I will keep you posted on how I go!

Dear Sandy,

So I had the interview with Eileen in Shanghai.
She's very very nice indeed, with a lot more smiles than Dee (lol).It took around 35 mins, and after the interview we discussed sth about Shanghai and our traveling plan.

And the questions are really really similar to the mock one you did with me (yay!).
and I believe I didn't get lost when answering the questions. I tried to keep them shorter!



Hub-City Interview / Harvard Center Shanghai / Eileen Chang

The Harvard Center Shanghai is located in the HSBC tower 5th floor. At the tower reception one gets an entry card to take the elevator to the 5th floor. After exiting the elevator, signs lead the way to the "Waiting area". When I arrived there 20 minutes before my appointment, the whole place was empty. After finding a secretary in another part of the building, I was told to just wait at the assigned area, so I took a seat and read through the Harvard business review which was lying there.

Exactly on time, Eileen Chang welcomed me to the Harvard Center Shanghai and led me to a meeting room with a big table for ~10 persons. Our places at the table were already assigned, opposite to each other. She had my CV and a blank sheet in front of her. On my side there was a HBS pen, which she told me is a present to the applicants. She then told me about the procedure, i.e. that she read my application, that I should use examples/stories not mentioned in my essays, that the interview will last 30 minutes, that she will interrupt me and that I should not be confused about that, and that I will receive my admission decision on December 14th.

In general the questions were very much related to my work with many follow up questions, therefore I also include my answers below (in short). [I can't remember clearly in which order some of the questions were asked, but the script below should resemble the interview.]
The interview was exactly 30 minutes. The atmosphere was very friendly. In the end, her paper was half full with key words from my answers. During the interview she secretly yawned a few times, but was in general very encouraging by keeping eye-contact and nodding from time to time.


Hi Sandy,

Just finished my interview with Chang. I think it went OK. The chemistry is just so-so at the begining when we talked about my jobs, but significantly gets better when she asked about anything else we should know to complete the picture of who you are and then I told her about x and y. The later part of the interview is very relaxed and she repeated twice like "it's really a pleasure talking to you..." I'm very surprised she asked "if there anything we didn't talk about but you want to cover" . . .One thing I could do better is after talking about my childhood expereince, ...I should have behaved more calm down.

Here are the questions

1. Give me an update about my work
2. Explain my role into more details
3. What suggestions I would give to people/company who want to do business in China
4. Talk about the strategy about my firm, how do I think whether my company could catch up with main competitor in 5 years
5. Where do I see myself in 5 years
6. What makes me unique in all X applicants
7. What I can contribute to HBS
8. Anything else I want to talk about
9. What do I do most well and what should I improve
10. What concerned you about attending HBS




I just had the interview with Eileen. It's very hard to tell how it went because she's so professional. She smiled a lot and it was easy to relax.
======She then talked about the standard process of decision and notice and
said that I can email during the process if any questions (she talked
about this for twice in the end and I did not know why)Just had my hbs interview with Eileen (did not mention her last name).
Went ok - got some points across well, others ok I think. Not many
icebreakers at the beginning and generally questions were very specific
to my application - however relaxed atmosphere and time went by very
quickly.

Eileen Chang

The interview went well, mostly the types of things we talked about and I think I did well!
Most of the rest was very specific to me, so we talked about where I am living, why, my travel with my job, how that impacts me, family, and some follow up questions on above like, explain, talk a bit more etc.

It was calm and nice interview, very professional, and a bit short even- seemed we covered everything quickly.
Thank you, Sandy! Invaluable information as usual. Would love to schedule a mock with you assuming I get good news tomorrow!
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The FT Global MBA rankings are out for 2012 with HBS up one position at #2, following Stanford which managed to go up 3 position to reach the top.

Less than 24 hours to go before the big wave of invites! Grab your boards!
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Hi everyone, does anyone have any experience interviewing in Mumbai, India? Any idea who to expect and sorts of questions asked?

Thanks!
Mumbai and Dubai are often one of these two HBS ladies.

HBS INTERVIEW DONE EARLIER ON MONDAY MARCH 15TH in MUMBAI --THIS GAL IS DOING MOST OF MUMBAI/dubia INTERVIEWS. [url]
https://www.linkedin.com/pub/pauline-jennett/7/427/201[/url]The interviewer took me into her office and briefed me - "The interview will last for 30 minutes and you would be offered decision on April 6th" - "I read your impressive application and want to know more from you"

In November of 2011, Sarah Lucas did the Dubai interviews.


abu dhabi!
Sarah Lucas

Questions were

1. tell me about the extra currics at college
2. Why IB
3. How did u get to dubai?
4. Anything surprising about being here.
5. what do u think the emiratis think of all of these westerners coming in?
6. Anything you might have done differently?
7. Talk about your business
8. Talked about hbs teaching methodology
9. Talked about hbs and then somehow got sidetracked onto talking about[ public tech figure ]
10. Talked about my favorite bldgs in boston

Interviewer was sarah lucas?
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hi all
wish good luck during the long wait for the golden email (which feels longer from Europe, since we're 6 hours ahead)
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Any interview invites??!??

Nothing for me yet....
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Any interview invites??!??

Nothing for me yet....

They come around noon. No need to bother checking til then.
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T minus 2 hours and 18 minutes. Good luck everyone.
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