June 10, 2013
USA Today | | Colleges help budding entrepreneurs get started
Welcome to the next generation of campus entrepreneurship, in which students don't just want to learn the principles of starting a company, they actually want to start one. Connie Bourassa-Shaw, director of the Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship, is quoted. |
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May 07, 2013
The Seattle Times | | The time has come for interest rates to rise
Seattle Times columnist Bruce Ramsey looks at the history and effects of persistent low interest rates. Alan Hess, professor of finance, is quoted. |
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April 25, 2013
The Seattle Times | | UW students pitch their business plans in competition
The Foster School of Business hosts a statewide business plan competition to find the next new thing. |
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April 25, 2013
GeekWire | | Marijuana candies and brain-powered wheelchairs: Meet the 16 finalists in the UW business plan competition
The results are in from the initial rounds of the Foster School's Business Plan Competition, and there's no shortage of diversity in the teams moving on to the final rounds of the competition. |
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April 09, 2013
GeekWire | | PolyDrop turns paint into conductive coatings, wins $10K at UW environmental challenge
College students are saving the world. Well, maybe not all of them. But the teams that participated in the Environmental Innovation Challenge are certainly impressive by our standards. |
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April 04, 2013
KING TV - Evening Magazine | | UW innovations
Some of the sharpest minds in the Northwest are competing to create the latest and greatest inventions at the Environmental Innovation Challenge. |
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April 04, 2013
KCPQ-TV | | 2 UW students strike gold with crew socks idea
Childhood friends, and Foster School students, Riley Goodman and Director came up with the Strideline crew socks idea while playing lacrosse together in high school. |
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March 12, 2013
U.S. News & World Report | | U.S. News Releases 2014 Best Graduate Schools Rankings
The U.S. News 2014 Best Graduate Schools rankings evaluate programs in business, law, medicine, engineering, and education—including specialties within each discipline. The Foster School's jump from 35th to a tie at 23rd is noted. |
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March 01, 2013
Delta Sky Magazine | | Great short courses
Delata Sky Magazine compiles a list of "quick, focused executive refreshers from the top business schools." The Foster School's Minority Business Executive Program is included. |
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