Neal and Jan Dempsey Professor at University of Washington, Michael G. Foster School of Business

Situated in the midst of the Cascade and Olympic mountain ranges, and flanked by Lake Washington and the Puget Sound, the University of Washington Foster School of Business is centrally located in one of the most beautiful, literate, technology focused and vital economic regions in the world.

Seattle and the Northwest – where innovation and intellectual rigor come to work in a suit one day, and jeans and sandals the next.

We work here. We play here. We engage the world here. This region of natural beauty and the launching pad for globally recognized companies – Amazon, Boeing, Costco, Microsoft, Nintendo of America, Nordstrom, Paccar, Real Networks, REI, Russell Investments, Starbucks, T-Mobile and Weyerhaeuser – is where we teach the future of business and the next generation of business leaders.

Our faculty, students and graduates are determined to make a difference at every level—in the classroom and the boardroom, in the community and the office, in Seattle and across the globe. We educate the future leaders of established companies and game-changing start-ups that will invent the next disruptive technol