Harvard Business School (HBS) Association of Northern California

Reflection from?Harvard Business School?alumna?Debbie Rosenbaum (MBA 2008). (Matt Bigge?Ann Gregg Skeet?Steven Hoffman?Alex Tilson?Peter Dayton?Zia Yusuf?Tom Rikert?Dave Parsin?Kyle Bertke?Peter Wagner?Nina Labatt?Buck Gee?Cathy Siciliano?Susheela Vasan?Nayla Rizk?Mike Selfridge Shalyn Eason?Catherine Krna?Dan Kostenbauder?John Kojiro Moriwaka Lara Druyan?Jillian DeGennaro?Catherine Zimmermann?&?Kurt Krukenberg: As alumni with ties to Silicon Valley, we thought you'd dig this post)

2025 Harvard Business School Alumni New Venture Competition Startup Profile: Lubos Marek, PhD, Chief Operating Officer of Azor Biotek. Register NOW for this year's NVC pitch event and networking night on March 6 at https://lnkd.in/g6EEnkfv. (Shane Happach Trevor Fridfinnson ?Benoit Ghiot Rashidah Alias Wiroat Rattanachaisit Doug Paulin Jason Cotta Roberto Nobile Roly Mahendra Emese Weissenbacher Lars Eibeholm??Brian McGavock Liya Rong Somkiat Sirichatchai Mark Steffe Michelle Loader Anton Perdices?Dr Todd Mansell Maunu Lehtim?ki?Bradley Gannon Jan-Maarten Mulder ?Michelle Loader Stephen Rodda Lasha Mikava Shani Naidoo Iram Shah Rostow Ravanan (he/him) Korkut Bilgin Minoura Saturnino Izquierdo Alec Cameron David Peppard Patrick Lammers Polly Chu, Ph.D. Mike McMenamin Xinkai Chen Paul Chodak III &?Oscar N. Onyema, OON: Your AMP 188 classmate is participating in this year's NVC!)

From the Harvard Business School MBA Voices Blog archives: HBS career coach Wendi X. Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013) reflects on coaching, what makes a good career coach, why EVERYONE can benefit from having one, and much more at https://lnkd.in/gyaKT-u6. (Hayk Sarkissian Charles-Henri Henault Alexandre Naghirniac Matthew Lingenbrink Alexis Kantt MennatAllah Gaafar Sarah Minkus Carlo Lim David Werry Tripp Androy ?Firdevs Abacioglu Manu Lakkur Candy Danquah (Baffour-Awuah) Nabihah Sachedina Andreea Akerele Francis Christophe Bertrand Monica Trench Nikhil Sachdev Marco Crespo Lisa Plimpton Erik Sparks Troy Tomasik Austin Blackmon David Psiaki Lydia Gilbert Mariko Yoshida Justin Ekins Anant Vinjamoori, MD Oliver Schluemer Kavikrut .?Brooke Boyarsky Pratt??Evan Britten Yasmin Kothari Ryan Pakter Sebastian Legler & Joshua R.: Awesome Q&A with your sectionmate in case you missed it)

2025 Harvard Business School Alumni New Venture Competition Startup Profile: Shuai Li founder of Shu AI. Register NOW for this year's NVC pitch event and networking night on March 6 at https://lnkd.in/g6EEnkfv. (Whitney Wilson Sophie Levin Jude Hanlein Claire Gibbons Veronica Polin Max Farrington Matthew DePorre Justin Troiani Andrew Vettese Alexander Nikssarian Kyle Maierhofer Ruth van Montfort Ernesto Vereau G?rbitz Nicolas Luzarraga Nikita Jagadeesh Kojiro M. Dandi Zhu Kanako Sakai Grace Murphy Sara Jetty Charlie Greene Andrew Migliazza Jeremy Kubach Hannelle Fares José A. Mena Ziyad Baeshen Elyse Propis Stephanie Myles Tarun Galagali Andi Zhao David Keatley Wesley York Noor Khalidi Rabbiya Hanif Lilian T. Joseph Pantoga Adriana Garcia Ceja & Nga Nguy: Check it out! Your sectionmate and his company are participating in this year's NVC!)

Photo of the Day featuring Harvard Business School grad Sean Jacobsohn (MBA 1998). Reflecting on the event, Jacobsohn said, "We discussed the following reasons for startup failure. Anything else you’d add? 1. Entering a crowded market space with an undifferentiated product. 2. Not picking the right early customers well. 3. Inability to persuade a critical mass of consumers to change behavior. 4. Scaling go-to-market before having repeatable success with your product. 5. Not surrounding yourself with a strong, experienced, and engaged board and team." (Lisa Skeete Tatum Kevin Nickelberry Lisa Leshne David Terry Gordon Kluzak Serge Bushman Nick Tiller Jill Schaeffer Hetherington David Schnabel Mnookin Allison Graeme Grant Daniel Boniecki Daniel Zwirn Craig Elson Bernd Freundt John Quinn Gary Homsy Christine Nashick Bruce Robertson Jason Mozingo Muneerah Merchant Lars Kroijer Travis King Gergely Voros Harold Mills William (Yungwook) Shin Sunredi Admadjaja Meline von Brentano & Julia Clarkson: Cool post featuring your sectionmate Sean Jacobsohn!)

2025 Harvard Business School Alumni New Venture Competition Startup Profile: Aishwarya A., founder of Social XP. Register NOW for this year's NVC pitch event and networking night on March 6 at https://lnkd.in/g6EEnkfv. (Ole Andreassen Karina Jhangiani Kristen Shipley, MBA Aditya Balaji Sydney Dixon Graeme Hewett Nabig Chaudhry Sophia Mamilli Garrison Jones Shreya Raghuraman Amelia B. Jisun Hur Alexander L. Leyla Tettamanti Rida Zaheer Gabriel Sj?str?m Lindsay Muller Kamya Jagadish Anna Skelsey Jordan Wolkon Morgan Elsmore Gibran Nasir Brett Lepicier Charlotte Levine Andrew Bass Michelle Okereke Imran Akbaraly Melis Cin Marco Ruiz Ian Hooft Cherie Chung Orkhan Hasanov Curren Iyer Gabrielle Oppenheim Earwin Tapé Justine Malabanan & Moses Mutoko: Sectionmate Aishwarya Amuda and her company are competing in this year's NVC!)

Photo of the Day featuring Harvard Business School grad Chris Yeh (MBA 2000) with actor, producer, director, and author Rob Lowe. (Jason Caporrino Cartha Siddiqui Luis Penarrocha Ann Root Keith Dayton Judd Karen Heidelberger Andrés Valverde Tristán Jean Polsky Pat Shores Lisa Shapiro Strovink Catharine Holtan Viktor Mizo Frans Johansson Laurent Saltiel Elise McDonald Simon Burch David Krieger Adam Smolyar Jeff Kutash Jill Morelli Lockie Andrews Philip Tsai Olivia Ouyang John Wu Bill Wilshire Raleigh Shoemaker Adam Grossman Javier Gra?a Stephanie Crimmins Eron Kelly & Julio Farach: We thought you'd dig this post starring your sectionmate Chris Yeh)

2025 Harvard Business School Alumni New Venture Competition Startup Profile: Sneh Patel cofounder and CEO of Delfino AI. Register NOW for this year's NVC pitch event and networking night on March 6 at https://lnkd.in/g6EEnkfv. (Raluca Florea Olga Malkin Horn Pooja Daftary Divi Ramola Peter Kuhlmann Carolyn Tobkin Adam Glasier Barry Wohl Joia Ramchandani Marisa Jo Kozachenok Jinal Surti Rukmini Giridharadas Smriti Jayaraman Kekre Taylor Jones Richard Offutt, CFA Emmanuel Mensah, MD, MBA, FACP Lauren Kiel Michael Bui Kasia Stochniol Melike A. Peter Fedchenkov Ana C. B. Dimitrios Stefanou Jacqueline Burgos Divya Srungaram Pia Desai Eric Grossman Lars Gehre Chris Mintle Yana Mitelman Wesley Tjosvold Daniel Bruno Yue Dai Priyanth Chandrasekar (PC) Hicham Mhammedi Alaoui Evonne Johnson & Morgan Samet: Sectionmate Sneh Patel?and her company are competing in this year's NVC!)

Clearvision Ventures managing director and Harvard Business School alum Daniel Ahn (MBA 1997) is on the ballot for the Harvard Alumni Association's elected directors. Read more at https://lnkd.in/ghzTk5bK. (Arpad Molnar Kevin Pegels Alison Deldicque Nadine Weil Rajiv Ramaprasad Greg Gottesman John Reuter Marc Aronstein Erik Benson Heidi Deringer Philip Purnama Man Yau Kizzie Brown Jason Saghir Leanne Pyott Huebner Tracy Palandjian Dan Frechtling Luc Sirois Michael Ni Raffaele Mellone Chris Hanan Jose Ferreira Greg Deldicque Beverly Anderson Greg Berglund Cyrille NKontchou Andrew D Ive Anouk van der Boor Alfredo Berlanga Aileen Lee Nate Medoff Soo Kim Venkatesan Christine Dinh-Tan Roman Nagaev Rogelio Caceres & Raul Pineda: Cool Section D news!)

2025 Harvard Business School Alumni New Venture Competition Startup Profile: Ni Xu cofounder of Origin Speech Therapy. Register NOW for this year's NVC pitch event and networking night on March 6 at https://lnkd.in/g6EEnkfv. (Bassel Akra Sayiddah M. Beijun Luo Daisuke (Dice-K) Arayama Andrew Velo-Arias Chea Hart Albertus Aldo Tjahjadi Andrew Banovic John Schupbach, MD, MBA Danny McBee Duwain Pinder Scott Niehaus James Taggart Akeel Rangwala Andrew Banovic Gheed El Makkaoui Andrea Barry Alek Duerksen Allyson B. Simeon Bochev Theresa Mahoney Lily W. Christie Shen Anjali Thakkar Safiya Karsan Michel Margaret Finch Rajiv Sivendran, MD, MBA Brenna Davis Casey Lafer Lisa Rickles Dino Bilankov Khaled Boukadoum Dallin Rosdahl Curtis Roby Sherri Geng Jenna Messer & Layla Ramirez: Sectionmate Ni Xu and his company are competing in this year's NVC!)