Myspace founder urges Foster grads to ask “why not?”
Speaking at the Foster School’s Undergraduate Graduation Celebration in the Hec Edmundson Pavilion on Sunday, Chris DeWolfe (BA 1988) pledged to veer from commencement address orthodoxy. “It’s appropriate that we rip up the commencement speaker handbook,” DeWolfe said. “After all, you are a generation of disruptors… And unlike the professional pessimists who are cynical about... Read More
New country. New culture. New quirks.
By: Lander Lee, Foster Undergraduate who participated in National University of Singapore Exchange After living on the other side of the world for 5 months, you begin to really see the differences between Singapore and the United States. Here are some of the Singaporean quirks that I found were the most blog worthy: Singaporean cleanliness:... Read More
Time for a career change?
Say you are a mid-career professional and find yourself looking for a new opportunity. You may no longer be a student at the Foster School of business, but the school’s career management experts have offered some pearls of advice that you might find useful in your transition. Naomi Sanchez Assistant Dean, MBA Career Management Build relationships that will open... Read More
Amazon to Zulily
The Foster School’s comprehensive, innovative and personalized approach to career management catalyzes opportunities of a lifetime with some of the world’s best businesses “Don’t be so humble.” Jean Gekler, a career coach in the Foster School’s MBA Career Management office, crowds a large whiteboard with adjectives describing Darius Chen, a Foster MBA student transitioning from... Read More
$85,000 awarded to students’ new ventures
May 26, 2016 – Like pig farmers, entrepreneurs — when handed pigs — should make bacon. That’s according to John Gabbert, CEO and founder of PitchBook and Foster School alumnus (’96), who got his entrepreneurial start as a pig farmer in a small town. He told his entrepreneurial story and encouraged students as the keynote speaker... Read More
Foster senior helps deliver UW’s first national team title in women’s golf
Congratulations to Ying Luo, the Foster School’s latest national champion! The senior from Shenzhen, China, helped drive the Husky women’s golf team to its first NCAA Championship this week at the Eugene Country Club in Oregon. In several days of riveting match play, the 13th ranked Huskies outlasted Virginia, top-ranked UCLA and defending champ Stanford... Read More
MOD Pizza meets Saudi Arabia in a foreign market strategy project
Guest post by Kate Jung, Foster undergraduate and AIESEC member AIESEC Seattle, the local branch of the global youth-led organization, was invited to participate in the Certificate of International Studies in Business (CISB) Foreign Market Strategy Project for the second year. Our team was assigned Saudi Arabia and tasked with evaluating the feasibility of market... Read More
Foster Venture Fellows Co-Founder Hartley Riedner on Networking and Building A Sustainable Program
I wrote earlier about the founding of the Foster Venture Fellows, which was started in 2015 as a professional student organization providing practical venture capital industry experience for Foster MBAs and valuable project work for venture capital firms. The previous article on August 2015 was erroneously titled – it should have been titled ‘How three... Read More
Foster holds 2nd Annual MBA Microsoft Excel Tournament
“Well…I’m, like…really good at Excel.” “Well, do you know VLOOKUP?” “Yes. That grade-school formula? Can you make macros?” “Taught myself off Youtube. How’s your nested-IF game?” This is not a scene from Kung Fu Panda 3. This discussion happens every Fall quarter at Foster, as new MBA students get to know their teammates and the... Read More
Humanity in the workplace
Even as technology reshapes the way we interact at work, the modern emphasis on team collaboration makes professional relationships more crucial than ever. And Ryan Fehr thinks it’s high time we started tending to those relationships. In a recent “Faculty Friday” profile by The Whole U, Fehr, an assistant professor of management at the UW... Read More