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EMBA Turns 35
Foster junior Jake Browning rewrites the Husky Football record book
The Foster School’s Executive MBA Program celebrated its 35th year with a “homecoming” celebration featuring a star-studded leadership panel and an intimate conversation with an American hero. A panel on leading through chaos, moderated by long-time EMBA strategy guru Charles Hill, included Howard Behar, the former president of Starbucks North America and International, Phyllis Campbell (MBA 1987), Pacific Northwest chairman of JP Morgan Chase, and Robert Herbold, former chief operating officer of Microsoft and managing director of The Herbold Group LLC. “Leaders are here to serve, not to be served,” concluded Behar, with the simple wisdom of a Zen koan. In a second session, veteran CNN correspondent Jill Dougherty led a wideranging conversation with Barry McCaffrey, retired four-star general in the US Army who later served in the Clinton White House. Founder of his own successful consulting firm, McCaffrey offered his unique advice for success in business:
Marks milestone anniversary with A-list leadership acumen
1. Be willing to work hard. 2. Do business only with people you trust. 3. Build employee trust and engagement. 4. Listen to clients. 5. Don’t be afraid of structure, procedures and authority.
When he’s not working toward his bachelor’s degree at the Foster School, Jake Browning plays a little football for the Washington Huskies. Quarterback, in fact, and a pretty good one. This year, Browning broke the UW’s all-time record for career touchdown passes, connecting for 77 TDs by the end of the 2017 regular season (and eclipsing Keith Price’s old mark of 75). The 2016 Pac-12 Offensive Player of the Year and CoSIDA Academic All-American (District VIII) is expected to continue his assault on the Husky record book—and opposing defenses— in his senior season.
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New Name, Same Great Program Pacific Rim Bankers Program becomes Global Bankers Program After 40 years educating international banking professionals, the Foster School’s Pacific Rim Bankers Program (PRBP) is changing its name to the UW Global Bankers Program (GBP), effective January 2018. “This change reflects both the true level of excellence that the PRBP curriculum has delivered over the past four decades and the increasing geographical diversity of participants who are attending the program,” says Jennifer Mullen, director of UW Executive Education. The intensive two-week program was designed by founder Kermit Hanson, former dean of the Foster School, to examine issues of mutual interest to all Pacific Rim nations, to improve participants’ abilities to handle banking and management problems, and to facilitate banking relationships between the US and other Pacific Rim nations. These goals still hold true today—and they have continually expanded as the program attracts participants from well beyond the Pacific Rim.