Mentoring at Foster
Leadership is a must have trait for all MBA students, but leadership development opportunities are scarce for most students in their pre-MBA careers. Foster aims to fill this gap with a mix... Read More
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Inside Scoop on Virtual Recruiting with ZS
Virtual recruiting has become almost ubiquitous among most professional service employers since the COVID-19 pandemic. While recruiting may feel more disconnected behind a screen, there... Read More
Business Management Certificate Alumni Profile: Ivan Liachko
Ivan Liachko, Ph.D. Founder & CEO Phase Genomics, Inc. Please tell us a bit about who you are and your career: I have been a... Read More
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Mentoring at Foster
Leadership is a must have trait for all MBA students, but leadership development opportunities are scarce for most students in their pre-MBA careers. Foster aims... Read More
How Accounting Gets Its Sexy Back
Most of the major accounting firms have recently announced larger than average pay increases for their employees. This is great news for those already in... Read More
U.S. News Ranks Foster Hybrid MBA Top 5 Online MBA
The Hybrid MBA Program recognized for strength of student community, academic excellence in finance and marketing and world-class faculty. U.S. News & World Report ranks... Read More
Yingfei Wang receives Amazon Research Award for online advertising work
Yingfei Wang, an assistant professor of information systems at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, has received a prestigious—and prodigious—Amazon Research Award. Amazon... Read More
Jaymz Walters, Class of ‘23
Jaymz Walters, Class of ‘23 I began at the UW Foster School of Business as a transfer student during fall of 2020. This initiated the... Read More
Transcending the Technical with Abhi Sharma
Abhishek “Abhi” Sharma, MSCM ’22, once dreamed of reaching the “pinnacle” of his mechanical engineering career path. But when a major setback seemed to dash... Read More
Honor Roll: Foster faculty recognized for outstanding achievements in 2021
Faculty of the UW Foster School of Business have earned numerous awards, accolades and appointments for excellence in research, teaching and leadership in 2021. Here... Read More
Shared Legacy: Choosing a Life of Entrepreneurship
The 30th anniversary of the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship arrived in the same academic year as the 25th anniversary of the Dempsey Startup Competition (formerly... Read More
Shared Legacy: The Startup Course Changing Lives
In 30+ years of formal entrepreneurship programming in the Foster School, perhaps no two courses have impacted undergraduate students more than Grand Challenges for Entrepreneurs... Read More
Shared Legacy: Insights From a Founding Board Member
In 1991-92, a group of individuals driven by a desire to empower students to solve real-world problems, and to innovate and lead the Seattle business... Read More
Class of 2021: Meet the Foster School’s new full-time faculty
The Foster School of Business welcomed six new faculty members this fall: Charlie Donovan, Jennifer DeWhitt Graves, Lee Hochberg, Jordan Nickerson, Esther Uduehi and Matthew... Read More
Juggling Family and a Career in Taxation, Part 2
In the second part in our series on managing a career in tax with a family, Master of Science in Taxation alum, Beilei Yi, offers... Read More