Past president of Amazon’s Black Employee Network to open Inclusive Product Management Summit
Angelina Howard, a senior product manager on the Digital Video Games team at Amazon, will be the opening speaker at the Foster School’s Inclusive Product Management Summit. The day-long summit takes place online Friday, May 7, hosted by The Product Management Center at Foster. Howard has been recognized among the Forbes 30 under 30 as... Read More
The “Non-Traditional Journey” with Luis Vicencio, ’21, President of ALPFA UW
When Luis Vicencio describes his journey to higher education, he uses the term “non-traditional.” At 30, he’s finishing up his senior year studying operation supply chain and marketing with a diversity minor. His path to this point includes nearly a decade working in the food service industry after high school and earning his AA in... Read More
The Business of Sports: Exploring Opportunities for Business Students in the Sports Industry
Seattle is becoming a major player in the professional sports industry with the recent additions of the Seattle Dragons XFL team and the Seattle Kraken NHL team. With this growth we have seen an increasing interest from Foster students about possible career paths for business students in the sports industry. To help Foster students explore... Read More
Nonprofit startup: MS Entre grad went from creating a company to building new industries
As the world’s first sale of cultivated meat—meat grown directly from animal cells without using live animals as production units—was approved, Elaine Siu was preparing to pass the torch to her successor. After a few years of building the new alternative proteins industry, as well as creating a nonprofit startup as Managing Director of Good... Read More
Helping Local Businesses Through Consulting: Bale Breaker Brewing Company
At the start of January 2021, I received an email congratulating me on my acceptance to the Business Impact Group, also known as the Foster Consulting Program. I was incredibly excited and simultaneously nervous about beginning my role as a Freshman Consultant for a local business. I had recently taken an interest in consulting and... Read More
Foster the Product: the dos and don’ts of engaging with engineering
Engaging with engineering teams can be fraught for product managers—and the more technical the business the tricker the relationship can be. There is perhaps no one better equipped to address this critical relationship than the director of product management at Facebook, Eman Barhoumeh. The April edition of the UW Foster School’s monthly “Foster the Product”... Read More
Talking Leadership with Coach Petersen
Within the University of Washington Sales Program, every guest lecture or sales leadership panel emphasizes the need to demonstrate strong leadership skills. Recently, the Sales Program put together an evening for the graduating class of 2021 focused on, you guessed it, leadership. Yet this conversation on leadership looked a little different than usual. Students were... Read More
Countdown to Husky Giving Day
Collective Impact Husky Giving Day is an opportunity for you to join with other Dawgs to unleash a collective impact on our students’ experience at Foster. It is a chance to invest in the people, programs and Foster community that bring our purpose to life. “Together, we foster leaders, insights and progress to... Read More
Environmental Innovation Challenge 2021 Awards
A new wave of student environmental innovators put on a show at the all-virtual 2021 Alaska Airlines Environmental Innovation Challenge. In an incredible showing for the region, students from five of the eight colleges and universities represented at the event took home awards. The $15,000 Alaska Airlines Grand Prize went to team Puget Buoy for its... Read More
Frank Discussions with Brad Tilden
In our latest installment of Frank Discussions, Frank chats with Brad Tilden, former CEO and current Board Chair of Alaska Airlines, about his storied career with the PNW-based airline. Brad’s 30-year stint with Alaska Airlines has seen him through a myriad of leadership positions within the company; from Executive Vice President of Finance and Planning,... Read More