Future Looks Bright at 2022 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge
Students impressed judges with risk-managing innovations at the 7th annual Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge (HIC) hosted by the UW Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. Team inSTENT Connection won the $15,000 WRF Capital Grand Prize for its medical device idea that lowers the chance of complications and mortality for patients needing surgery in their gastrointestinal... Read More
Hemanth Srinivas
Hemanth Srinivas Senior Director, Software Engineering at Tableau I am a versatile engineering leader with over 19 years of experience working across a variety of technologies and products. My technical areas of focus are on developing robust, scalable data platforms and developing and operating mission-critical services that power SaaS-based products. I enjoy the challenge of... Read More
Flying In [NYC Edition]: Finance Manager Giorgio Izzo
Name: Giorgio Izzo ‘23 Location: New York, New York Current Position: Finance Manager Undergraduate Degree: Finance, Florida International University – College of Business Fun Fact: I’m fluent in English, Spanish, and Italian! Coming from NYC, why did I choose the Hybrid MBA program at the UW Foster School of Business? I spent A LOT... Read More
Momentum for Jones + Foster Accelerator Graduates
They described the Jones + Foster Accelerator experience at the University of Washington as “transformative.” Now, five student-created startups can count themselves among the storied list of alumni in the program offered by the Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. The teams (detailed below) graduated after achieving six months of milestones under the mentorship from... Read More
UW Foster Sales Program Students Impress at National Team Selling Competition
Before they met the judges, the team gathered via Zoom, dressed in their business attire, and decided to take one final minute to get their energy up before the big meeting. Many weeks of practice and work had been building up to this moment, where the students had twenty minutes to face the judges and... Read More
Getting a Job in the US after Graduating from the UW GEMBA Program
Shruti Naniwadekar GEMBA Class of 2020 Originally from India Current Role: Senior Financial Analyst at Amazon in Seattle, WA since 2020 How important was getting a Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) from Foster in helping you to continue to grow and advance in your career? Getting my MBA degree from the GEMBA program was instrumental in... Read More
How has GEMBA helped to advance your career?
We asked one of the alumni, Kyu Dong Kim who graduated from Global Executive MBA in 2019, how he has benefitted from the program. When he joined the program in 2018, he was a Senior Manager at LG Corporation’s Finance Accounting Team. Soon after graduating, he was in a leadership role at GIIR. Today, Kyu... Read More
Strength in Career Outcomes, Faculty Research, and Alumni Regard Propel Foster’s Full-time MBA Program in Financial Times Ranking
Foster’s Full-time MBA program was ranked # 30 in the world by The Financial Times Global MBA Ranking 2022, moving up 17 spots in just two years from 47. Foster ranked #21 by Financial Times among US schools, consistent with the rank of #21 by Poets&Quants. “We’re proud to be recognized as a best-in-class program... Read More
Finalists Chosen for 2022 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge
The countdown to competition day is on for an excited group of student teams in the 2022 Hollomon Health Innovation Challenge (HIC) at the University of Washington. Judges selected 21 student finalist teams (detailed below) to compete on Thursday, March 3 at the event hosted by the UW Foster School’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship. The... Read More
The value of investing in the UW Global Executive MBA program for sponsoring companies
Many of the students in the Global Executive MBA (GEMBA) Program are carefully selected and nominated by organizations that recognize the importance of investing in developing their company’s human capital. Two of the sponsoring companies (Mizuho Financial Group in Japan and GS Engineering & Construction in Korea) share why they value the UW Foster GEMBA... Read More