Professor Ali Tarhouni’s Last lecture- 2/26
Wei Huang, TMMBA Class 11 On Feb 26, 2011, Professor Ali Tarhouni taught the first of his two final Microeconomics classes. The Wednesday section was the first class during the morning. Prof. Ali started off stating the topics for the lectures: Monopoly, competitive markets and showing that competitive markets are the way to go instead... Read More
There’s an equation for that?
Jared McInelly, TMMBA Class 11 That was my first thought when Prof. Karpoff first wrote the equation for NPV (Net Present Value) on the whiteboard. I was fascinated that there, right in front of me, was a way to calculate the present value, in today’s dollars, of a project that would last in to the... Read More
Video: University of Navarra 2011
By Rachel Abbott, Foster Undergraduate Join Rachel on this mini tour of the University of Navarra campus.
Lance Young wins 2011 PACCAR Award for Excellence in Teaching
Lance Young, an assistant professor of finance at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, has received the 2011 PACCAR Award for Excellence in Teaching, the highest teaching honor at the Foster School. The award is selected annually by a panel of MBA students. Young joined the Foster School faculty in 2003, after earning... Read More
Traveling with Aladdin
By Kelsey Ondrak, UW Foster Undergraduate Business Student So being in Spain for the past 4 months has been amazing, but I have to say that my favorite trip has been outside of Spain and Europe for that matter. I spent about 3 days in Fez, Morocco with a few people from Boston that are... Read More
Until next time España
By Kelsey Ondrak, UW Foster Undergraduate Business Student It is unbelievable to think that my five months in Spain are now over. I laughed, cried, and grew up a lot during those months, but the absolute best part of this experience is all the amazing people I have met. Each one is incredibly unique from... Read More
Warm Weather Comes to Seattle
Last weekend, Settle saw a preview of what will hopefully be a beautiful summer. At one point on Saturday, I looked up and there was literally not a cloud in the sky anywhere. Unfortunately, most of the weekend was taken up by the last of finals. So, on Monday, another gorgeous day, several of the... Read More
TechFlash features TMMBA
Dan Turner, TMMBA Faculty Director and Associate Dean for Masters Programs and Executive Education, discusses the UW Foster TMMBA Program. Read full article here. The article is also featured in this week’s Puget Sound Business Journal.
Boeing engineer pursues work-hard, play-hard lifestyle while building leadership skills
Meet Mike Luman, Evening MBA Class of 2012 Mike Luman grew up with a love of airplanes and motorcycles. Educated as an engineer, he landed a job at Boeing, where his natural leadership qualities started to emerge. But to maximize his potential as a leader and manager, he needed business knowledge and skills. That led... Read More
Private equity creates long-term value
In his bestselling 2009 book, “The Buyout of America,” New York Post columnist Josh Kosman paints a grim picture of private equity firms running amok, snapping up vulnerable companies and either pillaging every last crumb of value or making a killing off a quick-flip sale. But is private equity really rife with high-finance larceny? Does... Read More