Minority Business Hall of Fame 2015
On April 21, the Consulting and Business Development Center had the honor of hosting the Minority Business Hall of Fame and Museum (MBHF) for the second year as MBHF inducted five new members into the prestigious Hall of Fame. MBHF has been acknowledging trailblazers in the area of minority businesses as honorees since 2005, and... Read More
Chapter 2: Removal
Written by Evan Rumpza, Foster undergraduate Let’s recap how we got here. 4:30AM, wake up. Deposit 1,000 Baht into my pocket. Leave passport and any other form of ID, lest we get caught. 4:45AM, get tuk tuk. Argue in broken English about the drop off location. 5:00AM, avoid the guard walking around the barbed wire... Read More
David Burgstahler to serve as president of the American Accounting Association
David Burgstahler, the Julius A. Roller Professor of Accounting at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, will serve as president-elect of the American Accounting Association (AAA) for the 2015-16 academic year and as president for the 2016-17 academic year. The AAA, founded in 1916, is the primary professional association of accounting academics in... Read More
Blue Dot Perspective: Greg
Greg’s boyfriend is a current student here at Foster, and is a member of the ‘Blue Dots’ – the network of spouses and significant others whose loved ones are in the Foster MBA program. The name comes from the blue dot stickers that were put on their name tags during welcome weekends, to indicate that... Read More
Foster MBAs take first in their division at ethics competition
Foster Evening MBA students Naveen Ahmed, Kayla Erickson, and Garin Wedeking took first place in their division at the International Business Ethics Case Competition (IBECC) on April 23 in New Orleans. The International Business Ethics Case Competition is the premier international competition of its kind. It is jointly sponsored by the Ethics & Compliance Officer... Read More
The New Inside the MBA Blog Coordinator appears!
Hi, my name is Nelson Tang, a first-year MBA from the Class of 2016 and I’m excited to announce that I’ll be taking over the Inside the MBA Blog for the next year! We also have several new Admissions Coordinators on the team, and in the next week or two you’ll hear from them here.... Read More
Lee honored for career achievement by Academy of Management HR Division
Thomas W. Lee, the Hughes M. Blake Professor of Management at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, has received the 2015 Herbert Heneman Jr. Award for Career Achievement from the Human Resources Division of the Academy of Management. The award is presented annually to a most distinguished scholar in the field of human... Read More
What is your favorite elective and why?
One of the benefits of Foster’s Evening MBA program is the ability to take electives in areas that are most interesting to you. From advanced accounting to a class about finding your authentic voice, electives offer the opportunity to dig deeper and grow further. We asked current student and alumni what their favorite electives were... Read More
Change as strength
While introducing Bsquare CEO Jerry Chase as the April 22 Leaders to Legends Breakfast speaker, Dean Jiambalvo described the tech leader as an “accomplished executive with decades of experience leading public and private companies through times of transition and growth.” With the theme of “transition and growth” clearly in mind, Chase spent his time at... Read More
Meet the UW Business Plan Competition Sweet 16
37 student-led startup teams from colleges and universities across Washington state gathered at the University of Washington HUB yesterday to compete in the 2015 Business Plan Competition Investment Round. For four hours, the teams pitched their entrepreneurial ideas to 250+ judges—many of whom said it was the most impressive group of teams in the history... Read More