Category: Careers
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Innovating on a massive scale: Boeing and the future of planes by Tian Hedstrom
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On Monday morning our group woke up early to take an Uber up to the headquarters of Boeing, the world’s largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems. The company supports airlines in the U.S., as well as allied government customers in 150 countries, holding the single largest…
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An innovation Phoenix from the ashes: Pike Place Market
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Lots of people come to Pike Place Market to see the famed fishmongers throwing fish back and forth over the counter, but probably way fewer realize how close to the brink of demolition the Market came in its up-and-down history. The internment of Japanese-Americans affected the majority of vendors at the Market, and it was…
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Visiting with history: Bainbridge Island
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We took advantage of a rare bluebird sky day in Seattle to take the ferry over to Bainbridge Island, the site of some of Seattle’s most important economic and social history. Bainbridge was a key in Washington State’s timber industry and Seattle would look very different today if Bainbridge’s lumber had not been so available…
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Seattle J-Term: Amazon’s creativity in retailing & standing out from the crowd, by Shelby Pankratz
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First thing in the morning we set off for Amazon headquarters. We met our Seattle site-host, Kari Petrasek ’93 downtown, before hopping on a street car which sent us directly north to Amazon’s Houdini building. After checking in and watching one Amazonian after another start their work day with their dog in tow…
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Cultivating career relationships–Figuring out WYTYWTD
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Understanding a career plan, and how to get there, is complicated, isn’t it? Starting to explore a career track and what jobs might be part of some career can be daunting. How do you figure out WYTYWTD? What does that even mean? Tonight on campus students from many majors joined Marshall Lichty ’99 for a…