BLC 2019: Crystal Farh challenges assumptions on team leadership
The UW Foster School’s 28th annual Business Leadership Celebration featured a quintet of the school’s most-decorated faculty giving TED-style talks on different “Facets of Leadership.”... Read More
BLC 2019: A Charles Hill leadership lesson embedded in a story of grit
Sandpaper. It’s not a topic you might expect to light up an audience of several hundred movers and shakers in attendance at the UW Foster... Read More
Foster EMBA advances to #10 in U.S. in Financial Times ranking
The Foster Executive MBA rose from #12 to #10 in The Financial Times’ 2019 Executive MBA Ranking among U.S. EMBA programs offered by a single... Read More
BLC 2019: Annual gala examines facets of leadership, honors outstanding leaders
At its 28th annual Business Leadership Celebration, November 14 at the Westin Seattle, the UW Foster School of Business examined multiple facets of leadership and... Read More
Shi Chen receives meritorious service award from leading journal
Shi Chen, an assistant professor of operations management at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, has received the Meritorious Service Award from the... Read More
Shulman-produced documentary to air on Seattle PBS station
On the Brink will soon be on your television. The documentary film that explores efforts to save the vanishing soul of Seattle’s Central District will... Read More
Economist ranks Foster MBA #20 in the world, #1 for job placement in U.S.
The Foster School moved up two more spots to rank #20 in the world and #17 in the U.S. in The Economist’s Which MBA 2019... Read More
We wrote the book on…
Foster faculty drop knowledge on generations of management students the world over Textbooks are not glamorous. But they are essential. Their volumes contain multitudes of... Read More
Office communication: When is it good to be blunt, and when should one be subtle?
In her dissertation on managerial communication styles, Misha Mariam, a Foster PhD student, aims to identify which communication styles are most effective for different managerial... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 6.12: Building community around basketball
Season six of the Seattle Growth Podcast has explored the many ways that Seattleites are building or finding a sense of community in a city... Read More