CEO Lunch Featuring Jeffrey Brotman
Jeffrey Brotman, chairman of Costco Wholesale is the featured speaker at the CEO Lunch held at the Columbia Tower Club on Tuesday, April 5.
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Washington Weekend, April 21-23
Join us for Washington Weekend, April 21-23, 2005 – the University of Washington's first campus-wide block party! We'll be featuring department open houses, class reunions, live entertainment, tours of university facilities and lots more. There's something for the entire family, from the spring football game to the campus art walk. We sure hope you'll come to campus, make yourself at home, and discover all the great things happening right here in your backyard. Come celebrate all the UW has to offer!
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MBA State of the Economy Forum
Wednesday, April 27, 6 - 8 p.m. University of Washington Club
Come hear popular economics and finance professors Ed Rice and Karma Hadjimichalakis discuss the current state of the economy.
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Special Presentation by Joy at Work author, Dennis Bakke
Tuesday, April 19, 12:30 p.m. Douglas Forum, Bank of America Executive Education Center
Dennis Bakke will present on his newly released book Joy at Work on Tuesday, April 19th. In this groundbreaking work, Bakke tells the true story of AES, the global energy company -- and how, as cofounder and CEO, he challenged the business establishment with revolutionary ideas to create a place where all employees could genuinely look forward to work and actually have fun on the job.

Multicultural Alumni Reception
Wednesday, May 11, 6 – 8 p.m. Douglas Forum, Bank of America Executive Education Center
Please join us in celebrating our alumni community! Light hors d'oeuvres, wine, and beer provided. Registration for this free event will be available on-line in late March by going to www.UWalum.com or by calling 206-543-0540.

MBA Class Reunions Coming this Fall
As it turns out, you can go home again.
The UW Business School will welcome back alumni for the first annual MBA Reunion Weekend, September 23-24, 2005. This year's event will honor the classes of 1980, 1985, 1990, 1995 and 2000 in the MBA, Evening MBA, Executive MBA and all other master's degree programs offered by the Business School
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Challenge for Charity Auction Raises Most Money Ever
University of Washington MBA students raised $128,000 at the Challenge for Charity Auction held, Friday, February 25 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Seattle. This is the most money ever raised by UW C4C.
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First Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition a Success
Teams of both graduate and undergraduate students from the UW and around the world presented their creative and commercially sustainable solutions for reducing poverty through new business development at the Global Social Entrepreneurship Competition held at the UW Business School on February 25th. The competition's focus on social entrepreneurship required that competitors' business plans demonstrate both social and financial returns on investments.
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MBA Professional Development Program Version 1.0
Soft skills are the hard target of the MBA Professional Development Program, an innovative facet of this year's reinvented curriculum created to polish students' command of written communication, verbal presentation, negotiation, persuasion, team management and leadership.
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Changes to MSIS/TMMBA Programs
Effective February 2005, the UW Business School MS/MBA in Information Systems program will no longer be offered as an option for prospective students. Professionals interested in studying information systems in the context of business should consider the Technology Management MBA (TMMBA) with a concentration in information systems.
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Career Transitions Workshop
This workshop is designed to help alumni, students and other members of the UW community sort out the steps required to make a career change or enhance a current position.
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Dependable Strengths Seminars
This seminar is designed to assess strengths and talents. This information is then used to develop a powerful job search strategy.
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