Exploring Jiufen
By Chanrithy Kouch, Foster Undergraduate studying Finance and CISB. Chanrithy is participating in an exchange with NCCU in Taipei, Taiwan. It’s about the third week as I’ve settled in with the region after getting familiar with the locals, and handling all the classes. I decided to take a one-day break during the weekend to see... Read More
Innovative Empirical Methods Yield Unique Insights into Minority Entrepreneurship
In January 2016 and August 2016, the Kauffman Foundation sponsored two power-packed research conferences on minority entrepreneurship. The conference organizers – Timothy Bates, William Bradford, Alicia Robb and Robert Seaman – selected conference participants from the pool of scholars who responded to the request-for-proposal, “Seeking New Insights and Potential Sources of New Entrepreneurial Growth: Minority... Read More
Foster Undergraduate Program moves up 10 spots to #23 in Poets & Quants ranking
Poets and Quants ranked the Foster School #23, #10 among public schools, and #1 in the Northwest in the Best Undergraduate Business Programs Of 2017. Foster advanced 10 places from last year based on strong results for admissions quality (#18) and student experience (#24). Poets and Quants surveyed 93 of the nation’s top business schools and... Read More
Do pitch competitions help diversify entrepreneurship?
Guest post by Angelino Viceisza Ph.D., Spelman College In January and August of 2016, the Kauffman Foundation organized two workshops profiling research on minority entrepreneurship. Out of these, came a special issue in Small Business Economics with an introduction by Timothy Bates (Wayne State University), William Bradford (University of Washington), and Robert Seamans (New York... Read More
Maokong Village
By Chanrithy Kouch, Foster Undergraduate studying Finance and CISB. Chanrithy is currently participating in an exchange with NCCU in Taipei, Taiwan. An estimated 7-minute bus ride from the so-swarming school district of National Chengchi University lies the hidden mountain village of Maokong village. Whenever I feel stressed or too short of breath from all the... Read More
Minority and Women Entrepreneurs and Barriers to Securing R&D Funding for High-Tech Ventures
Guest post by Amol M. Joshi, Oregon State University There is an ongoing but unresolved debate that has been rapidly heating up over the last several years. The central question in this debate is: How do we help minority and women entrepreneurs overcome barriers to securing R&D funding — the lifeblood of new high-tech... Read More
Q&A with Yagmur Ataman, MPAcc Alumna
Yagmur Ataman graduated from the MPAcc program in 2015 and is currently an Audit Senior at Deloitte. Why did you choose to join the MPAcc? Ultimately, I knew I needed an additional year of credits to sit for the CPA Exam. However, instead of pursuing a different major for my fifth year, I really wanted... Read More
US-Japan Relations Disrupted? Former Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki’s Perspective
By Haeden Coffey A Fireside Chat with Ambassador Fujisaki If you have turned the news on recently, you may have noticed that there is a lot of uncertainty and worry in the world at the moment. North Korea has nuclear power and has produced a shroud of worry in the region, and President Trump continues to... Read More
Accounting in Rome
Guest post by Justice Landenburg, a Foster senior studying accounting who participated in the new Accounting Exploration Seminar in Rome. Justice is a recipient of the GBC scholarship. Traveling overseas for the very first time was more eye opening, and an even better experience than imaginable. I was so honored to have had this opportunity... Read More
Make Anything: My Summer as an MBA Intern at Autodesk
Before coming to Foster, I’d never worked for a Fortune 1000 company. I’d never worked in corporate finance. And I’d never lived in San Francisco. But that all changed last summer. Just four days after I finished the last class of my first year at Foster, I packed a few bags, coaxed my cat into... Read More