Life as an International Student in Seattle
Welcome to our very first guest contributor series! If you are curious about life as an international student at UW-Seattle, you’ve come to the right place. Introducing Aditya Sharma, an international graduate student in the Master of Supply Chain Management program. Imagine this: You are at the airport, waiting to board your flight to Seattle.... Read More
Uduehi and Nageswaran named among the nation’s best undergrad professors by Poets & Quants
Esther Uduehi and Leela Nageswaran, young faculty at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, have been named among the “Top 50 Undergraduate Professors of 2022” by the influential business school site Poets & Quants. Esther Uduehi is an assistant professor of marketing and international business. She joined the Foster School Department of Marketing... Read More
Foster Students Solve International Business Problems at Annual Case Competition
150 UW Foster students, undergraduate and graduate students alike, were busy Nov. 16-19 solving real-life international business problems at this year’s annual Russell Investments International Case Competition (RIICC). RIICC is one among many opportunities at Foster for students to gain hands-on learning experiences with a diverse group of like-minded peers. The case competition is organized... Read More
Recent Foster PhD graduate receives Frank M. Bass Dissertation Paper Award
Omid Rafieian (PhD 2020), a recent graduate of the PhD Program at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, has won this year’s Frank M. Bass Dissertation Paper Award from the INFORMS Society for Marketing Science. INFORMS is the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. The award recognizes the Marketing Science paper... Read More
Helping Students Prepare For Career Success in 2023
The Foster Master of Science in Information Systems program is looking to partner with technology leaders for our annual professional mock interviews! We will gather together as a community to host a virtual interview practice day where our industry partners conduct mock interviews and provide real-time feedback to students. The professional mock interviews are a great learning experience... Read More
In Conversation with a Fritzky Fellow
MBA students at Foster have a unique opportunity to develop their leadership skills with the Fritzky Leadership Fellows. Second-year full-time students apply to the program where they support first-year students through peer coaching, mentoring and more. Fellows help first-year MBA teams reflect on their team processes and development. They also work individually with assigned students... Read More
How Mentorship helps MBA students at Foster
One of the key aspects of the Foster MBA program is mentorship. Students have a myriad of opportunities to find mentors who can guide them through the MBA and beyond. This includes the MBA Mentor Program, Fritzky Fellows, Mentorship Circles as well as informal mentorship through clubs and affinity groups. We spoke to our MBA, Class... Read More
Getting Down to Business: New Foster MBAs at the 2024 Forte Conference
Fourteen incoming MBAs from Foster’s Class of 2024 traveled to Los Angeles in June to join a community of MBA women from highly ranked MBA programs around the country and hear keynote speakers discuss ways to navigate the business world, the future of work and ways to develop tools for leading in an increasingly diverse... Read More
Get to Know MS in Entrepreneurship Student: Suleiny Altamirano Bahena
The MS in Entrepreneurship program is made up of a diverse group of students who come from various backgrounds and experiences. We love to highlight students from the current cohort, so read on to hear more about Suleiny’s journey to the program! Please tell us your name. Suleiny Altamirano Bahena Where are you from? I... Read More
Mitchell and Lee receive mentoring award from Academy of Management
A scholar’s legacy is written in teaching and research. For some, it’s also multiplied by mentorship. This is certainly the case with Terence Mitchell and the late Thomas Lee, institutions at the University of Washington Foster School of Business. Lee and Mitchell are co-recipients of this year’s Thomas A. Mahoney Mentoring Award from the Human... Read More