????哈佛商學(xué)院（Harvard Business School，簡(jiǎn)稱HBS）的MBA招生面試前整整兩周，亞歷克斯?克萊納每天晚上睡覺前都反復(fù)琢磨著一份可能被問到的問題清單。周日，和HBS招生官員約好的面試前一天晚上，他從康涅狄格州的父母那里驅(qū)車來到波士頓。

????次日早上，那天剛過完感恩節(jié)，克萊納穿上了深藍(lán)色西裝、藍(lán)色襯衫、保守的領(lǐng)帶以及黑皮鞋。他回憶說：“穿著上沒有特別浮華的東西。”接著他到狄倫樓的一個(gè)小房間報(bào)道，屋內(nèi)有兩位女士坐在他對(duì)面。一位負(fù)責(zé)提問，另一位奮筆疾書，做著記錄。

????接下來的30分鐘里，所有的問題中只有一個(gè)是他完全沒有準(zhǔn)備的：“你在大學(xué)里最自豪的時(shí)刻是什么時(shí)候？”

????“這個(gè)問題讓我措手不及，因?yàn)樵谶@之前的所有問題我都有所準(zhǔn)備，”克萊納回憶說。

????畢竟，那時(shí)距離卡萊納從耶魯大學(xué)（Yale University）畢業(yè)，拿到歷史學(xué)學(xué)士學(xué)位，已經(jīng)有將近4年的時(shí)間了。畢業(yè)后，他在紐約的美林證券（Merrill Lynch）從事了兩年的投資銀行業(yè)務(wù)，然后去舊金山的私募股票公司Vector Capital工作了兩年。

????他對(duì)HBS的招生人員講述了當(dāng)年身為大學(xué)冰上曲棍球隊(duì)的主席和隊(duì)長(zhǎng)的一段經(jīng)歷，那時(shí)他幫助組織了一場(chǎng)對(duì)陣約翰霍金斯大學(xué)（Hopkins University）的比賽，以紀(jì)念第一場(chǎng)大學(xué)間冰球比賽。

????“轉(zhuǎn)眼間我的面試就結(jié)束了，”克萊納回憶說。“走出去的時(shí)候我覺得才過了幾秒鐘，但我認(rèn)為我表現(xiàn)不錯(cuò)，很好地表達(dá)了我的觀點(diǎn)。這實(shí)際上挺令人欣慰的。兩位面試官都挺友好，善于接受觀點(diǎn)，在我們的對(duì)話中也很投入。第二位面試官雖然沒有說話，但她通過點(diǎn)頭以及面部表情向我表示，她在仔細(xì)聽我的回答。”

????克萊納很快成為哈佛大學(xué)2014屆的一名學(xué)生。現(xiàn)在，作為MBA校刊The Harbus的主編，他帶領(lǐng)一組同學(xué)刊登了最新版的《哈佛商學(xué)院面試非正式指南》（Unofficial Harvard Business School Interview Guide）。

????最新版的指南在以前的基礎(chǔ)上做了本質(zhì)的修訂和更新——篇幅長(zhǎng)達(dá)68頁（去年的版本只有40頁），是The Harbus史上出版的最長(zhǎng)的面試指南。之前面試中最讓克萊納驚訝的問題，以及怎樣回答這個(gè)問題的建議，正是指南所刊登的96個(gè)問題之一。所有這些問題都是由成功通過HBS招生過程的學(xué)生提供的真題。克萊納還說：“我們?cè)诜治鲋猩疃绕饰稣猩瘑T會(huì)提出的每個(gè)問題的目的。”

????除了這些最常見的以及完全無法預(yù)測(cè)的問題，這本售價(jià)65美元的指南還增加了一個(gè)章節(jié)，介紹了成功通過面試的HBS申請(qǐng)人給出的最佳面試心得。（這本指南的所有收入用于支持The Harbus的刊發(fā)基金。）克萊納和他的MBA同學(xué)還開了一個(gè)時(shí)間安排章節(jié)，敦促申請(qǐng)者至少用兩個(gè)月時(shí)間準(zhǔn)備研究生管理專業(yè)入學(xué)考試（GMAT），三個(gè)月時(shí)間單獨(dú)完成HBS申請(qǐng)。

????For two full weeks before his MBA admissions interview at Harvard Business School, Alex Kleiner would mull over a list of potential questions every night before going to bed. He drove up to Boston on a Sunday from his parents home in Connecticut the night before his scheduled session with an HBS admissions official.

????On the Monday morning just after the Thanksgiving Day holiday, Kleiner slipped on a dark navy suit, a blue shirt, conservative tie, and black shoes. "Nothing too flashy," he recalls. And then he reported to a small room at Dillon House where two women sat opposite him. One asked the questions, and one feverishly scribbled notes.

????Over the next 30 minutes, he received only one question for which he wasn't completely ready for: "What was your proudest moment in college?"

????"It caught me off guard because all the questions I had received until then I had prepared for," recalls Kleiner.

????After all, it had been nearly four years since Kleiner graduated from Yale University with an undergraduate degree in history. Since then, he had worked for two years as an investment banker at Merrill Lynch in New York and for two more years in private equity at Vector Capital in San Francisco.

????He told the HBS admissions staffers how, as president and captain of the university's club ice hockey team, he helped to organize a match against Johns Hopkins University to commemorate the first collegiate ice hockey game ever played.

????"It went by in the blink of an eye," recalls Kleiner. "I walked out thinking it had only begun a couple of seconds earlier. But I felt I had done a good job getting my points across. It was actually pretty comforting. Both people were kind and receptive and engaged in our conversation. The second person didn't speak but she would nod and make facial expressions to let me know she was listening to my answers."

????Soon enough, Kleiner would be offered a seat in Harvard's class of 2014. Now, as editor-in-chief of The Harbus, the MBA student newspaper, the 28-year-old has found himself leading a team of students who have just published the latest "Unofficial Harvard Business School Interview Guide."

????The newest edition of the guide has been substantively revised and updated -- and, at 68 pages long, (up from just 40 pages last year) is the largest ever published by The Harbus. The question that surprised Kleiner -- along with advice on how to approach an answer -- is among 96 questions revealed in the guide. All of those questions come from current students who successfully navigated the HBS admissions process. "We try in our analysis to give insight to what the admissions committee is after for each question," adds Kleiner.

????In addition to the questions, which range from the most obvious to the highly unpredictable, the $65 guide contains a new section offering the best general admissions advice from successful HBS applicants. (The money made from the guide goes to support the foundation that publishes The Harbus newspaper). Kleiner and his MBA colleagues, for example, tossed in a section on timing, urging applicants to give themselves at least two months to study for the GMAT and three months to complete the HBS application alone.