A Message from Sigrid

Welcome to the 2017/18 academic year! I am delighted to have everyone on campus this week and look forward to engaging with all of you in the year ahead.

As we begin the new year, I want to encourage all of you to make a goal of connecting with your class, the other full-time class, and the Evening MBAs this year. You are all key elements to making everyone’s MBA experience rewarding! Speaking of connecting, there are three key community building events coming up:

• Welcome Back to Campus Lunch - September 27, 12:30-1:20 pm, Anthony's Forum - 1st & 2nd years welcome
• Wild, Wild West TG – September 29, beginning at 6:00 pm, 2nd Floor, PACCAR Hall
• Foster Day of Service – September 30, 9:00 am-1:00 pm, UW Intramural Activities (IMA) fields, see the C4C webpage for details and sign-up

Finally, on behalf of the program office I would like to extend a big THANK YOU to all of the full-time Class of 2018 that participated in the MBA Opening Events. We appreciate you taking time to provide hospitality, answer questions, and help the new students settle into life here at Foster! A special shout out to Ronan Jenkins for creating the MBA Launch Welcome Video, Pratham Bagade for facilitating the MBA Launch Case Competition with us, Sandra Mumanachit for creating the Foster Diversity Video and delivering a wonderful introduction to the new class on this topic, and Elaine Ji for organizing and hosting the MBA Club Fair!

Here’s to a great year ahead!

Sigrid Olsen
Director of Student Affairs - Full-time MBA Program

Weekly Events

• Welcome Back Pizza Lunch
  • Wednesday, September 27, 12:30-1:20 pm, Anthony's Forum (DEM 302)

See the entire MBA Student Events calendar and the MBAA Club Calendar.

Autumn Quarter Announcements

Online MBA Student Directory

Be sure and utilize the Online MBA Student Directory as a means to connect and network with your classmates. Through this tool, you can access information about your classmates (Full-time MBA and Evening MBA) on a password protected site. Remember that you can click through on a student name to learn their educational and professional background. You can also search the entire directory by name, degree and job, or by company. Note that we are still adding the new student information – this should be complete in the next couple of weeks.

Autumn Quarter Class Schedule & Tuition Charges

Visit MyUW to verify that you are registered for the correct classes and that your tuition has been charged correctly. If you find any errors, contact mbaregis@uw.edu.

Autumn Quarter Financial Aid
If you received a Foster MBA Scholarship, it should have been disbursed to your student account by now. Financial Aid typically disburses in the first week of the quarter. For those of you with NRD waivers, you should see your waiver credited to your student account sometime this week. Please check your statement on MyUW and contact Barby Pearson if you have questions.

Orin's Place Cafe is Open for Business

Monday and Tuesday (Sept 25 & 26), Orin’s Place will be open from 7:00am-3:00pm. After that, their Autumn Schedule will begin: Monday-Thursday 7:00am-8:00pm and Friday 7:00am-3:00pm.

Foster School Building Hours

For your planning purposes, please see the operating hours for key venues below. Note that hours may be different on holidays or between quarters.

PACCAR Hall

While you can use your Husky Card to access PACCAR Hall as well as the MBA Lounge 24/7, the hours below indicate when the building will be open for access without your card:

Dempsey Hall
Floors 0 and 1 (Classrooms)

Floors 2 and 3 (MBA Program and Career Management Offices)

Foster Business Library Hours

Operating Hours on Sept 25 & 26: 9:00am-5:00pm. Normal operating hours below (beginning Sept. 27)

Link to Reserve a Foster Business or UW Library Study Room:

Click here to reserve a study room.

Team Room Information

Hours Rooms are Open for Use:

Link for Booking a Team Room:

Click here to book team rooms in PACCAR Hall via EMS.

Team Room Scheduling Guidelines:

• You can reserve team rooms up to 7 days in advance.
• These rooms are to be reserved only for group study, not for individual use. Groups have priority to use the room over individual students.
• Individual students should use the Foster Library study carrels.
• There is a 2-hour time limit per group reservation on weekdays and a 3-hour limit on weekends. Note that teams should NOT book a room for back-to-back time blocks. Such reservations are subject to cancellation.
• If you do not arrive at your room by 10 minutes after your scheduled start time, your reservation may be cancelled and the room used by walk-up customers.
• MBA students have priority access to the 3rd-floor Paccar team rooms. However, if the rooms are not reserved for MBA student use, other students (e.g., Undergrads) are allowed to use the rooms on a walk-up basis. You are also allowed to use unreserved 2nd-floor Paccar and 1st-floor Dempsey team rooms on a walk-up basis.

UPCOMING EVENTS

Mark Your Calendar!

Autumn Quarter Coffee Breaks

• Monday, October 16 - 10:15-10:35am
• Monday, November 6 – 10:15-10:35am
• Monday, November 27 - 10:15-10:35am

Autumn Quarter TG's  The MBAA sponsors several cross-program events every year, dubbed TGs (short for “Thank Goodness it’s Friday!”). These themed events occur on approximately 3 Fridays per quarter, usually on the 2nd floor of PACCAR Hall, and provide MBA students a fun chance to network with students from other programs, alumni, and prospective students. Autumn quarter TGs are scheduled for the following dates (with themes noted) from 6:00pm to 10:00pm:

• September 29 – Wild, Wild West
• October 27 - Halloween
• December 1 – C4C Holiday Celebration

Foster Forums – All MBA Meetings in PCAR 392 from 12:30-1:20pm

• Wednesday, October 4
• Wednesday, November 1
• Tuesday, November 28

Are You A Winner?

Of course you are! However, you also may receive a prize if you are the first to contact Sigrid and tell her what hours the 3rd floor Paccar Hall team rooms are open on Sundays. It pays to read the newsletter!

Registration Information for Autumn Quarter 2017:  

• Deadline to add/drop classes without fees: Tuesday, October 3.
• Late add period begins October 4: A late registration change fee of $20 will be assessed to add, drop or change a course.
• Unrestricted drop period: October 4-10. Classes dropped during this period will not be indicated on your transcript. A late registration change fee of $20 will be assessed for each day you make changes and you may be charged a tuition forfeiture if you change your number of credits.
• Late Course Drop Period: October 11-November 14. Use of Annual Drop Required.  A late registration change fee of $20 will be assessed for each day you make changes and you may be charged a tuition forfeiture if you change your number of credits. A W grade and the week designation will be noted on your academic transcript.

Autumn Quarter Classes Currently Available

The following Autumn Quarter classes still have spaces available as of 9/22/2017. At this point, you should plan to attend the first class session to request an add code.

• ENTRE 509 A/B: Foundations of Entrepreneurship
• ENTRE 510 A/B: Entrepreneurial Strategy
• ENTRE 542 A/B: Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) (very limited spaces)
• ENTRE 543 A/B: Environmental Innovation Practicum
• ENTRE 545 A/B: Health Innovation Practicum
• FIN 579 C/D: Introduction to Real Estate Finance & Investment
• IBUS 545 A/B: Cases in Sustainability
• IBUS 579 C/D: Global Business Forum
• MGMT 547 A/B: Successful Negotiations (very limited spaces)
• MGMT 547 C/D: Successful Negotiations
• MKTG 562 A/B: Customer Analytics

Class of 2019 announcements

MBA Launch Winning Teams

Congratulations to the following teams who gained notoriety during MBA Launch!

Let’s give it up for…

Foster Case Competition – Practice Round Winners:

Team 1: Yasar Ammar, Gina Johnson, Catherine LaPlant, Andrew Peppler, Robert Sandberg

Team 13: Won Bae, Graham Bullis, Andrew Caponi, Priya Gupta, Chase Kania, Kelsey Radwick

Team 9: Max Boomer, David Cone, Tami Geiger, Afa Malu, Jack Nettleton, Yangyang Pan

Team 2: Carrie Blodgett, Johnathan Duong, Brian Graf, Rachel Johnson, Tanvir Singh, Kelsey Zhou

Team 16: Phillip Bozarth-Dreher, Jeremy Greenberg, Tashiya Gunesekera, Laura Jia, Derik Kumagai

Team 10: Austin Guyette, Brandon O’Leary, Giulia Pellegrino, Jeff Rechler, Loris Zarzar Charur

LEAD Team Introduction Winners:

SECTION A:

Most Informative: Team 4 - RANYE  
Skyler Brown, Vibhas Kumar, Shirley Liou, Kate Neupert, Ben Schwartz, John Turk

Most Creative: Team 1 – One Team To Rule Them All
Yasar Ammar, Gina Johnson, Catherine LaPlant, Andrew Peppler, Robert Sandberg

Best Overall: Team 5 - The Alchemists

Shilpa Bothra, Dan Dang, Daniela El Saghir, Ethan Flory, Jason Schechtman, Rohan Sebastian

SECTION B:

Most Informative & Best Overall: Team 14 – RUMBAL

Monica Haggarty, Brian Kajioka, Austin Morton, Roger Soles, Ujjwal Yadav, Li-Ann Yap

Most Creative: Team 16 – Ring of Fire

Phillip Bozarth-Dreher, Jeremy Greenberg, Tashiya Gunesekera, Laura Jia, Derik Kumagai

Foster School, UW, & Seattle Business Community Announcements

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Check out the entire University of Washington Events Calendar.