My Study Abroad Experience in Korea
Guest post by Rachelle Pierce, a Foster senior studying Marketing. She studied abroad on exchange at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. I’ve been back in Seattle for a few weeks now, but I can’t help to miss the country I called home for four months. Studying abroad in South Korea will be an experience I will... Read More
Get free tax help from MS Tax students
For the second year, the Accounting Department and United Way of King County are hosting a Volunteer Income Tax Assistance site in Mackenzie Hall (Room 132) from now through the tax filing deadline in mid April. The site will be staffed by UW MS Tax students, who will prepare free tax returns three days a... Read More
Global Health Business Case Competition: Third Edition!
For the third year in a row, the Global Business Center, along with UW’s Department of Global Health and the Jackson School’s Center for Global Studies, hosted the Global Health Business Case Competition (GHBCC). GHBCC taps into the vast network of UW departments and Seattle area companies that work on global health issues. The competition... Read More
A New Perspective: The Train to Busan
Guest Post by Kevin Cha, a Junior at Foster studying Information Systems. Kevin studied at Yonsei University in Korea through the Foster Exchange program. Busan is a well-known city in South Korea. It is a port city located on the southern part of South Korea. It is probably the 2nd most well-known city after Seoul,... Read More
Kelly McDonald follows a dream, finds a career with Cirque du Soleil
Some kids dream of running off to join the circus. The notion didn’t hit Kelly McDonald (BA 2007) until after she graduated from business school. But today, as her classmates from Foster are a decade into management careers, McDonald is a principal aerial acrobat in Luzia, the latest traveling spectacle of the world-renowned Cirque du Soleil.... Read More
Foster Centennial Pop Quiz
We spent the past year celebrating 100 years of people, programs and accomplishments of the University of Washington Foster School of Business. How well do you know the Foster School? Test yourself on these questions that span the 100-year history of business education at the University of Washington. In what year did the UW School/College of Business Administration... Read More
Life in Milan
Guest post by Hewan Solomon, a Foster senior studying Finance and Information Systems, who participated in the Foster exchange at the Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Before arriving in Milan all I knew for certain about the city was that it was fueled by fashion and finance. What I learned is that this was correct,... Read More
Immediate relevance and connections: Q&A with Marc Phillips, MBA 2018
Why Foster? I chose the Evening MBA program at the UW Foster School of Business because I knew the program would be academically challenging, and would connect me with some of the most talented young professionals based near Seattle. Student experience What has been the highlight of your Foster MBA experience so far? Through two... Read More
Northwest Classic
Elton Leith, an “everyday guy” with an extraordinary gift, lived an entrepreneurial life in parallel with the Foster School of Business When he was 14 years old, Elton Leith (BA 1942) traveled to Snoqualmie Pass with his Boy Scout troop to learn how to downhill ski. He noticed some of the experts scything effortlessly down... Read More
La Dolce Vita
Guest post by Hewan Solomon, a Foster senior studying Finance and Information Systems, who participated in the Foster exchange at the Bocconi University in Milan, Italy. Life in Italy was equally beautiful and tranquil as it was hectic and eventful. Milan, a metropolitan city, was filled with so much beauty, from the architecture to the... Read More