UW wins Pac-10/Big Ten MBA Case Competition A team of UW MBA students delivered the best expansion plan for an online grocer to win this year's "Rose Bowl" of case competitions. [more...]
MBA Professional Development Program hones “soft” skills The new MBA Professional Development Program is polishing students’ skills in written communication, verbal presentation, negotiation, persuasion, team management and leadership. [more...]
Business School undergrads win ethics case competition Seniors Marcie Garrity and Emily Grad won the inaugural Western Region Ethics Case Competition held late last fall at the University of Arizona. [more...]
Executive Programs offer new Corporate Directors Series The Business School and the UW School of Law are presenting a series of short seminars for corporate directors and executives to explore emerging issues in corporate governance today. [more...]
Business School professor advises state lawmakers on offshoring An expert in international trade from the Business School has urged Washington state lawmakers not to enact policy that would dissuade the exporting of white-collar jobs to foreign countries. [more...]
Are physicians ‘easy marks’ for pharmaceutical marketers? New research by professor Robert Jacobson shows that pharmaceutical marketing and free samples have little impact on physicians and their prescribing behavior. [more...]
Emotions play key role in guiding consumer spending A study by assistant professor Erika Okada has found that people are more likely to buy pleasurable over practical products, but only if the situation allows them the flexibility to rationalize their purchases. [more...]
Business School honors state's top minority businesses The Business and Economic Development Program honored five of the state’s most successful minority owned businesses at November’s UW Minority Business Awards. [more...]
  Spring Events at the UW Business School

The Dean’s Business Breakfast Series welcomes Dennis Madsen, president and CEO of REI (March 9); Jonathan Klein, CEO and co-founder of Getty Images (April 6); and John Furlong, CEO of the Vancouver Organizing Committee for the 2010 Olympic Games (April 27). The CEO Lunch Series presents Jeff Brotman, co-founder and chairman of Costco Wholesale (April 5); and Gary Shansby, co-founder and managing director of the Shansby Group (May 3).

For more information on these and many other upcoming Business School events, visit: http://bschool.washington.edu/events.html
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