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
Design Week Portland: Prof. Ian Parkman Designing for the Real World
Millennial Thinking: Designing for Problems Outside of the Classroom Busting out of academic silos, teams of interdisciplinary students from across the University of Portland campus will present their culminating posters, videos, and physical objects from a newly offered course: Business/Communication 391 Design Thinking and Cross-Disciplinary Research. This course draws students from all areas of the…Continue Reading Design Week Portland: Prof. Ian Parkman Designing for the Real World
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!