Rock & Roller
What do healthcare innovation and roller derby have in common? Molly Moore If you’ve driven the streets of Seattle, browsed an Alaska Airlines magazine or spent time on the Internet lately, you may already be acquainted with Molly Moore (MBA 2012). Moore was one of the protagonists of a recent advertising campaign promoting the Foster... Read More
Anna Imai – Amazon
Two summers ago, I served as a Logistics Recruiting Intern at Amazon. During the three month internship, I mainly focused on sourcing both active and passive candidates from internal and external platforms. Internal platforms included our candidate application database, while external platforms included tools such as LinkedIn, Google Boolean, and general job search engines. I... Read More
U.S. News ranks Foster’s undergraduate program #23 of 488 Best Colleges
The undergraduate business program at the University of Washington Foster School of Business ranked in the elite top five percent of programs nationwide—#23 of 488 schools and #13 of public schools—in U.S. News & World Report’s Best Colleges 2017 Rankings. Foster academic programs also achieved national prominence with specialty rankings in Accounting (#15), International Business (#21), Entrepreneurship (#22), Management (#22) and Finance... Read More
The 5 Geniuses You Meet in Business School
About the author: Jeremy Diamond grew up in New Jersey and studied film at American University. Before coming to Foster, he worked in TV production and post production for Discovery and Animal Planet. Since joining the Foster MBA class of 2017, he has served on four club boards, interned with a robotics startup, judged a... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast episode 8: Healthcare System
Follow @ProfShulmanFollow Professor Jeff Shulman on Twitter for the latest Seattle Growth news. The eighth episode of the Seattle Growth Podcast, hosted by the UW Foster School’s Jeff Shulman, explores how Seattle’s hospitals are being affected by the city’s growth. Dr. Susan Stern, head of emergency medicine at Harborview and UW Medical Centers, offers her... Read More
Seattle Growth Podcast episode 7: Emergency services
Follow @ProfShulmanFollow Professor Jeff Shulman on Twitter for the latest Seattle Growth news. The seventh episode of the Seattle Growth Podcast, hosted by the UW Foster School’s Jeff Shulman, explores the question: how are first responders adapting to Seattle’s growth? Harold Scoggins, chief of the Seattle Fire Department, describes how Seattle’s increasing density affects service calls and... Read More
The values of studying abroad
By Michael Ballard, Foster Undergraduate and GBC Study Abroad Scholarship Recipient who participated on an exchange with Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Study abroad was a life changing experience. It sounds cliché but it is true. I studied abroad in Rotterdam during the winter of 2016. Almost every weekend I went to a new... Read More
Karpoff named Financial Management Association Fellow
Jonathan Karpoff, a professor of finance and the Washington Mutual Endowed Chair in Innovation at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, has been named a Fellow of the Financial Management Association (FMA). In receiving this recognition, Karpoff joins a select group of only 50 FMA Fellows chosen since the program was established in... Read More
15 tech moments from 15 years ago
In 2001, the Technology Management MBA (TMMBA) program launched with a class of 43 students. One of our first students brought their own wireless router to class for all to enjoy! Now we are the MBA program for tech leaders and innovators, with a network of over 1000 students and alumni. Over the past 15 years, our curriculum and student experience have expanded... Read More
Why Australia?
By Kalei Munsell, Foster Undergraduate who is participating in an exchange with the University of Sydney. The first thing every Sydney-sider asks me as an exchange student is: “Why Australia?”. I never expected this to be such a common question, but the more I was asked, the more I analyzed my own decision. So many... Read More