Here are the winners of our Annual Founder’s Day Elevator Pitch! Open to all students, they presented a 60 second “pitch” for a company, a social enterprise, technology or product. The audience selected the best pitch and the winners received a $100 gift card. Group One: 1st Place – Cole Preece, 2nd – Keaton Alexander,…Continue Reading Winners of our Annual Founder’s Day Elevator Pitch
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UP Business comes in 2nd & 3rd at Beta Alpha Psi Competition
No better place to enjoy spring than in Seattle over the April 8 weekend at the Beta Alpha Psi Northwest Regional Meeting. Deloitte sponsored the Best Practices Competition where chapters from across the Northwest displayed their professional skills. This year’s competition topics included: Strategic Planning, Community Outreach, and Leadership Development. Issac Mansuetti and Austin Kreft…Continue Reading UP Business comes in 2nd & 3rd at Beta Alpha Psi Competition
Design Week Portland: Designing a New Innovation Minor at UP with Prof. Ian Parkman
What do you wish you could have learned when you were in college? Practitioners, educators, students, and all other stakeholders in the Portland design community are invited to participate in a collaborate workshop helping the Innovation Task Force at the University of Portland apply tenets of design thinking to develop the structure, content, and mission…Continue Reading Design Week Portland: Designing a New Innovation Minor at UP with Prof. Ian Parkman
Tapping into Design at Design Week Portland
Tapping into Design: Creating User Personas in Craft Beer Craft beer is an integral part of the Portland community. Still, with 105 breweries in the metro area alone, how can great beers stand out in our increasingly saturated marketplace? Further, as craft beer consumers become increasingly promiscuous, how can craft breweries build consumer loyalty? This…Continue Reading Tapping into Design at Design Week Portland
Beta Alpha Psi, Nu Omega has been officially installed at PSOB!
Today we are excited to announce our officially installed chapter of Beta Alpha Psi (BAP), Nu Omega. Congratulations to those members and faculty! If you are unfamiliar with BAP, it is an international honors organization on campus open to accounting, finance, and OTM members. Their events consist of a combination of service events, like…Continue Reading Beta Alpha Psi, Nu Omega has been officially installed at PSOB!
Dr. Sam Holloway heads to the Ohio Craft Brewer’s Conference
Dr. Sam Holloway will be presenting at the Ohio Craft Brewer’s Association Conference (OCBA) with two students, Brian Grafton and Kelly Terwisscha, from our Crafting A Strategy online certificate program. They will be in Cincinnati on February 7th to present “Brewery Growth – Optimizing Design & Funding with your Unique Growth Strategy.” Brian Grafton, R.A. NCARB,…Continue Reading Dr. Sam Holloway heads to the Ohio Craft Brewer’s Conference