MBA students consult for Seattle shipyard
Located in the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle, Pacific Fishermen Shipyard and Electric is attempting to branch out from its traditional lines of revenue with new... Read More
Global health gets global business make-over by Foster MBAs
With more than $4 billion in activity among 190 nonprofit organizations, such as PATH and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle has become a... Read More
Urban Enterprise Center: advocating for multiculturalism AND sustainability
Guest post by Rita Brogan, CEO of PRR Whether you belong to the Urban Enterprise Center (UEC) or not, you benefit from its programs and... Read More
Microsoft’s cloud platform becomes an MBA sandbox
By the time Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer came to the University of Washington in March 2010 to tell the world that he was betting the... Read More
Angelica Macatangay’s BA degree journey
Angelica Macatangay’s drive to succeed was inspired like this: She was a smart, 17-year-old high school grad in Guam holding acceptance letters to three top-tier... Read More
The ABCs of LEED
Guest blog post by Rita Brogan, CEO of PRR It is almost impossible these days for there to be a discussion about building or development... Read More
Students consult with Panama coffee farmers to improve business
A dozen globetrotting University of Washington Foster School of Business students visited a Central American jungle village over spring break and boosted farmers’ incomes by... Read More
Greenlining: how can we make it work for the Northwest?
Guest blog post by Rita Brogan, CEO of PRR Most of us know about “redlining,” the historic practice of disinvestment by banks, insurance companies, and... Read More
Foster students consult for Brazilian restaurant in Seattle: part 4
On March 13, 2010 the minority-owned restaurant Tempero do Brasil received its final recommendations and a few accounting tools from undergraduate business consultants assigned to... Read More
Foster students consult for Brazilian restaurant in Seattle: part 3
In this installment of our video series following student business consultants from the Foster School, the UW Business and Economic Development Center team members discuss... Read More