Dieselgate and the “perverse halo” of Volkswagen
Guest post by Abhishek Borah, an assistant professor of marketing at the Foster School. Volkswagen is in dire straits. The German car company’s ongoing “Dieselgate”... Read More
Foster C4C Sports Weekend 2015 Recap: Go Dawgs!
Challenge for Charity (C4C) is a MBA student-led non-profit organization that brings together nine West Coast Business Schools to support the Special Olympics, Boys and... Read More
Foster Professional Sales Program 18th Annual Spring Business Partner Breakfast
Guest post by Rick Carter, assistant director, Foster Professional Sales Program Foster Professional Sales Program Celebrating the Foster Professional Sales Program 18th Annual Spring Business... Read More
Our way of giving back to the community and also having fun – C4C Fundraiser and Weekend
The University of Washington’s Foster MBA students believe community involvement is an integral part of being a business professional. As a result, each year we participate... Read More
True North
Keeping the customer as its lodestar, Alaska Air Group navigated a turbulent decade to emerge as one of the marquee companies in the Pacific Northwest... Read More
Lessons for student entrepreneurs
As a student at Seattle Pacific University, Dan Price won second place in the 2007 UW Business Plan Competition for Gravity Payments. This year he... Read More
Evening MBA transformers: Alicia Boaz
Once: human resources generalist Now: business manager Tell us about your previous career: The first six years of my career were in human resources, which... Read More
GSEC press room
Below is a collection of press on the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition. 2013 June 14, 2013: GSEC 2012 ICT prize winners makes “Startup of the... Read More
Sewing the seeds of change
Sometimes a very simple idea can have a great impact. Case-in-point: Krochet Kids intl. is turning yarn and crochet hook into tools for social change.... Read More
Foster MBAs learn marketing on premium tequila, next-gen game console
If tequila could be said to have any role in higher education, it is—at best—as a distraction. At least, typically. In Mark Forehand’s Consumer Marketing... Read More