Sales Talk: How to build and leverage business relationships
Sarah Wilson, senior university relations recruiter for TEKsystems, talks about how to build and leverage business relationships. She covers the three levels of business relationships... Read More
Leaders Magazine cites Foster grad for brand building, leadership lessons
Gary Shansby, alumnus (BA 1959) and immediate past chairman of the Foster School Advisory Board, was recently featured in Leaders Magazine. As the magazine editor... Read More
Thought Leaders: Foster faculty among the elite in scholarly rankings
There are many more—and more celebrated—rankings of business school programs than of the faculty who deliver those programs. But a few empirical ratings of intellectual... Read More
On Board(s): experienced directors prepare executive women for the boardroom
Corporate director and former drugstore.com CEO Dawn Lepore (on the board of AOL, and formerly eBay and the New York Times), joined with the Foster... Read More
Pete Nordstrom expounds on the Nordstrom Way… forward
What’s the secret to Nordstrom’s success? Humility It’s an interesting choice of words to explain the remarkable ascension of Seattle’s iconic upscale fashion retailer that... Read More
Steve Singh on UW, opportunity, and leadership
Steve Singh has served as Concur’s CEO since 1996 and created a culture of great people who cared about each other and creating an impact.... Read More
Summa Cum Laude
Foster School faculty members from every department were recognized in 2015 as exemplars at university, national and international levels. Leta Beard Senior Lecturer in Marketing... Read More
Gary Furukawa on leadership, resourcefulness, and education
Gary Furukawa (UW 1981) started his career with Deloitte & Touche in Seattle as a Certified Public Accountant. In 1982, he joined Smith Barney as... Read More
Durkan keynotes Cybersecurity Symposium
Jenny Durkan, Global Chair of the Cyber Law and Privacy Group at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan and former United States Attorney for the Western... Read More
John Jacobi talks career, UW, family, and more
John Jacobi’s (UW 1962) business start came at the Puget Sound Mutual Saving Bank where, after 10 years, he left as the head of the... Read More