Economic impact of UW Business Plan Competition
Failure rates for start-ups are notoriously high, and college-aged entrepreneurs face even higher hurdles. At the University of Washington, we’ve been running our Business Plan... Read More
A fresh crop of entrepreneurial summer fellows
Every summer, the UW Foster School of Business Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship (CIE) funds graduate student fellowships designed to focus entrepreneurial skills on innovative... Read More
$60,000 for winners of 2011 UW Business Plan Competition
Budding entrepreneurs from universities across the Pacific Northwest created start-ups in clean technology, medical technology, retail, agriculture, software and other areas at the 2011 University... Read More
Cupcake Royale founder boosts business via Foster’s Executive Education
Cupcake Royale founder serves up community sweets—and boosts business via Foster’s Executive Education It takes a neighborhood to raise a cupcake business. That’s the way... Read More
$22,500 awarded to clean technology winners
Teams who won the 3rd annual University of Washington Environmental Innovation Challenge invented solutions to some of the world’s most pressing environmental issues. Wind energy.... Read More
Clean technology: the next industrial revolution
Guest post by Trenten Huntington, UW Foster School of Business MBA student I recently had the opportunity to interview US Representative Jay Inslee (WA-01) about... Read More
Academic powerhouse leads PhD Program with heart and mind
Academic powerhouse leads PhD Program with heart and mind There’s not much more for Terry Mitchell to accomplish. In four decades as a management professor... Read More
Taking aim at energy solutions
In 2008 Brian Pepin and Anthony Simon were running Energizing Solutions, a small industrial efficiency consulting company, while studying electrical engineering at the UW. The... Read More
Jai Elliott wins 2010 UW diversity and community building award
Jai-Anana Elliott, associate director of diversity and recruitment at the University of Washington Foster School of Business, won the 2010 UW Vice President for Minority... Read More
Foster MBA explores Rwanda post graduation
Guest post by Foster alumnus Jim Bullock (MBA 2010) So, what comes to mind when you think of Rwanda? Maybe you think of the ethnic... Read More