Alaska Airlines Day 2019
Among today’s Fortune 500 success stories, few are as truly and uniquely Northwest as that of Alaska Airlines. The Foster Community knows firsthand — Alaska... Read More
Students Impress at 2019 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge
An idea to make battery technology more sustainable electrified the judges at the 2019 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge (EIC). The MOtiF Materials team leapt... Read More
Foster Flies Alaska: Ryan Bak Recounts Alaska Airlines Day
Guest post by Foster Undergraduate, Ryan Bak On Thursday, November 9, the Foster School of Business celebrated Alaska Airlines Day, acknowledging the region’s most... Read More
Foster School celebrates ascending partnership with Alaska Airlines
Squadrons of purple and gold paper airplanes rained down from the rafters of PACCAR Hall’s soaring Garvey Family Atrium and into the outstretched hands of... Read More
Industry leaders: Foster’s Master of Supply Chain Management is “best in class”
In the summer of 2017, Foster proudly graduated our very first cohort of Master of Supply Chain Management (MSCM) students. With backgrounds ranging from the... Read More
Q&A with Marilyn Romano, EMBA student
Marilyn F. Romano, Regional Vice-President at Alaska Airlines, shares her experiences in the UW Foster School’s Executive MBA program. Why did you choose the Executive... Read More
Alaska Airlines and Foster EMBA
A special relationship Brad Tilden knew it was a long shot. As a young finance executive at Alaska Air Group in the mid-1990s, Tilden made... 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
Building the business case for applied learning: Strategic Management Case Competition
An Alaska Airlines jet soared overhead as a group of four Foster School seniors emerged from the Customer Services and Innovation team headquarters last Friday.... Read More
Heidi Boettcher – Alaska Airlines Internal Audit Intern
This past summer I had the incredible opportunity to intern in the Internal Audit department at Alaska Airlines. During my 12 week internship, I worked... Read More