Master of Business Administration (Accelerated)

Smith School Of Business, Queen's University

2027 Admissions Interview Question Bank* (QUEENS SMITH AMBA)

Motivation Fit
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Can you describe your professional, academic, and personal passions? How do you believe these passions will help you succeed in the MBA program at Queen's?

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  • Can you describe your professional, academic, and personal passions? How do you believe these passions will help you succeed in the AMBA program at Queen's?

Analysis

  • Why asked: Queen's Smith School emphasizes a balanced, whole-person development model — this question tests whether your passions are genuine and multidimensional, and whether they will translate into active participation across academic, professional, and community dimensions of the program.
  • Expectations: Strong candidates describe passions across all three dimensions with authentic specificity, and then connect each to a concrete contribution or development outcome in the Queen's context — professional passions to classroom and case discussions, academic passions to research and elective choices, personal passions to community engagement.
  • Strong answer: Show coherence across the three domains: if your professional passion is innovation, your academic interest in entrepreneurship research, and your personal hobby is building things — tie them together as a unified intellectual identity that will bring genuine energy and perspective to the Queen's community.
  • Common mistakes: Listing passions without connecting them to the MBA experience wastes the second part of the question; also, giving only professional passions while treating academic and personal as afterthoughts signals a transactional relationship with the program.
Teamwork Collaboration
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How have you handled conflict in the workplace? Please give an example.

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  • Tell me about a time when you worked in a group where each member had strong individual personalities. How did you ensure the team’s success and manage the differences?
  • Tell me about a time when you worked in a group where each member had strong individual personalities. How did you ensure the team's success and manage the differences?

Analysis

  • Why asked: Conflict management is a core interpersonal competency, and this question tests the candidate's ability to address disagreement constructively rather than avoiding or escalating it.
  • Expectations: Strong candidates describe a genuine interpersonal or professional conflict, explain their approach (active listening, finding shared ground, escalating appropriately), and show that the resolution preserved the working relationship.
  • Strong answer: An outstanding answer demonstrates emotional intelligence: the candidate shows they understood the other party's perspective, separated the issue from the person, and found a resolution that addressed the root cause rather than just ending the tension.
  • Common mistakes: Describing a conflict that was resolved by a third party (manager or mediator) without showing the candidate's active role; or framing the story so the other party is entirely at fault—suggesting lack of self-awareness.
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Can you share another example of a situation where you had to collaborate with others to achieve a common goal, and how did you contribute to the team’s success?

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  • What is another example of a situation where you had to collaborate with others to achieve a common goal, and how did you contribute to the team’s success?

Analysis

  • Why asked: This follow-up collaboration question tests whether the candidate has a repertoire of teamwork examples and can articulate their specific contribution (not just describe the team's achievement).
  • Expectations: Strong candidates choose an example with genuine collaborative challenge—disagreement, resource constraints, diverse working styles—and clearly distinguish their individual contribution from the team's collective work.
  • Strong answer: An outstanding answer shows what the candidate did specifically that others couldn't or wouldn't: a mediating role in a conflict, a technical skill that unlocked progress, or a leadership moment that realigned the team—making the contribution concrete and distinctive.
  • Common mistakes: Describing the team's success without differentiating the candidate's specific role; or choosing a collaboration example where there was no real tension or challenge—making the story unrevealing.

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