Peak Management: Foster’s Department of Management and Organization ranks #1 in the world for rigorous, relevant research
Business school rankings are byzantine exercises, each employing its own proprietary formula of survey results, reputation grades, test scores, career data and a murky burgoo... Read More
Wee wins best dissertation award from Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychology
Elijah Wee, an assistant professor of management at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, has received the S. Rains Wallace Dissertation Award from... Read More
McVay to serve as section president of the American Accounting Association
Sarah McVay, the Deloitte and Touche Endowed Professor of Accounting at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, has been named president-elect of the... Read More
Sayedi named Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar
Amin Sayedi, an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, has been named an MSI Young Scholar by the... Read More
The Year in Palmatier: best papers, elite productivity and an editorship, too
It’s been a banner year for Robert Palmatier, the John C. Narver Endowed Professor in Business Administration, professor of marketing, and founding research director of... Read More
High-impact research: Foster management scholars among the most influential of all time
A new Academy of Management report identifies seven current or former faculty of the Foster School’s Department of Management and Organization among the 100 most-influential... Read More
The CEO’s political ideology influences resource allocation within an organization
Why do some multi-business corporations distribute resources evenly across units while others award resources variably? According to research by Abhinav Gupta, an assistant professor of... Read More
Minority-owned ventures, despite barriers to capital, deliver superior ROI
Does discrimination exist in financial markets? It’s too big a question to be answered with a single study. But new research by William Bradford, the Business... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 5.9: music, poverty and homelessness
The sacrifices required to make it in the music business can leave an artist on the edge of poverty and homelessness. Or sometimes, over the... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast 5.8: homelessness and community in action
Everyone faces challenges of varying degrees of scale. Homelessness in Seattle can seem a challenge of insurmountable scale. But there are ways to get involved... Read More