Centers
Centers at the UW Foster School of Business serve to drive innovative research, stimulate advancements for businesses and non-profits, and provide opportunities for students to advance in their careers. From providing consulting services to minority-owned small businesses to enabling entrepreneurs to pitch to angel investors, Centers facilitate experimental learning while bettering the greater community.
Arthur W. Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship
Founded in 1991, the Buerk Center offers an exceptional curriculum, real-world experiences, and connections to the Seattle entrepreneurial community to inspire students from all majors and disciplines across campus to pursue their entrepreneurial passions.
Center for Leadership and Strategic Thinking
The Center for Leadership and Strategic Thinking (CLST) is the country’s preeminent academic source for education and research in the fields of leadership and strategic thinking. For companies, the CLST serves as a trusted partner to corporations seeking evidence-based leadership development programs. For students, programs such as the Fritzky Leadership Fellows develop leadership skills and provide training in leadership theory, methods, and applications.
Center for Sales and Marketing Strategy
The Center for Sales and Marketing Strategy brings academic research and analysis techniques to help optimize sales and marketing operations. The center’s work measurably improves business performance and develops the skills of future leaders in the field.
Consulting and Business Development Center
The Consulting and Business Development Center (CBDC) defines what it means to be a publicly-engaged business school. By accelerating student careers as they engage in solving complex challenges and delivering world class executive education the CBDC is growing business that build wealth for under-represented minority entrepreneurs and businesses in under-served communities.
Creative Destruction Lab
CDL-Seattle pairs participating scalable, seed-stage, science- and technology-based companies with accomplished entrepreneurs and engineers who have decades of experience in manufacturing and want to help the next generation succeed. The initial focus of CDL-Seattle is computational health and the rise of AI applications for enhancing human health.
Customer Analytics Center
The Foster Customer Analytics Center develops and fosters relationships between businesses, researchers, and students to create impactful real-world business applications, research, and education in the fields of machine learning and marketing analytics.
Global Business Center
The GBC creates transformative global business opportunities in Seattle and abroad for students, faculty, and the business community.