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Leadership Banquet honors alumni, explores the Boeing way
The 2007 Distinguished Leadership Awards went to Alaska Air CEO William S. Ayer (MBA 1978), Taiwan Cement chair Leslie Koo (BA 1977) and Silicon Valley legend Ray Williams (BA 1957). [more...] |
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Foster programs prominent in national rankings
BusinessWeek ranks Foster School Evening MBA 2nd and Undergraduate Program 8th among public universities; plus,other rankings from the Economist, U.S.News, Forbes and The Wall Street Journal. [more...] |
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UW MBAs finish first at Pac-10 Case Competition
Second-year MBA students won the Pac-10 Case Competition, giving them pole position for the Pac-10/Big Ten challenge in January 2008.
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Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition grows up fast
The event's fourth edition has drawn 80 business plans from students around the world, each aimed at improving the quality of life in the developing world. [more...] |
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UW Minority Businesses of the Year unveiled
The Business and Economic Development Center recognized outstanding achievement by people of color in building and growing businesses in the state. [more...] |
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PACCAR renews MBA teaching award for 10 more years
The global technology leader in capital goods and financial services has renewed its commitment to finance this premier teaching award, and upped the stipend to $35,000. [more...] |
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Research briefs
Decreasing degrees of separation to enhance innovation; CEOs profit from mergers good and bad; truth-squading holier-than-though employees; the illusion of relationship marketing. [more...] |
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Foster School welcomes 5 new faculty
Introducing the extraordinary class of 2007-08: Morela Hernandez, Robert Palmatier, Lisa Sedor, Sonali Shah and Mark Soliman. [more...] |
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Back to Business School: 2007 Reunion Weekend draws hundreds
The third-annual event drew more than 300 from around the US and as far away as Switzerland from the MBA and EMBA classes of 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997 and 2002. [more...] |
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Scholarship Breakfast celebrates power of giving
Keynote speaker Ron Crockett and hundreds of students honor the benefactors who have enabled the Foster School to award nearly $2 million in scholarships this year. [more...] |
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Upcoming
Events at the Foster School of Business
"Leaders to Legends" Dean's Breakfast Series welcomes Colleen Brown, Fisher Communication (January 23); Dawn Lepore, Drugstore.com (February 13); Firoz Lalji, Zones, Inc. (March 5). CEO Lunch Series welcomes Larry Flax, California Pizza Kitchen (February 12); Tod Leiweke, Vulcan Sports & Entertainment (March 4). Alumni Reception with the Dean (February 21). Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition (February 25-29). Celebration of African American Business Achievement (February 26). Los Angeles Alumni Reception with the Dean (February 27). |
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Gifts
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the best public business school in the US. Please consider
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