Every Study Tour team includes student leaders, a faculty representative, and the assistant director for MBA Global Programs in the Global Business Center (GBC).

Carrie Lee is a full-time student in class of 2009 in UW MBA Program. Born in Japan, grew up in Taiwan, Carrie is familiar with Asian culture and can speak Chinese, English and Japanese. Carrie finished her college degree in Taiwan and worked in the Congress in Taiwan after graduation. Carrie’s network with Taiwan government and technology companies can help this tour gain connections to the companies we plan to visit. She also worked as a Project Manager in a leading Japanese company – FUTABA Technology Corporation. During her job in FUTABA, she host several important visits of their international partners. The experience makes her good at coordinating visiting plan and can help UW MBA gain good reputation during the visit. Carrie will be in Japan for exchange program in Fall quarter 2008. During her stay in Japan, Carrie will be in charge of the coordination with companies. She plans to come back to Seattle in January 2009 and will then join the in-bound preparation of the study tour with everyone.

Sally Kuo is a first-year full-time MBA student at University of Washington. She is born in Taipei, the capital city of Taiwan, but brought up in Taichung City, which locates in the middle of Taiwan. She graduated from the National Tsing Hua University from HsinChu, home to Taiwan’s top research center, and a world-renowned science park, with a bachelor degree in Economics. After graduation, she worked for Hong Kong and Shanghai Banking Corporation (HSBC) as a customer service specialist. During the time she worked for HSBC, she built up her network with employees in both Taiwan and Hong Kong headquarters. Therefore, not only is she familiar with Taiwan’s high-tech industry, but also had a deep understanding in the culture within HSBC.

Mandarin is Sally’s mother tongue, and she speaks fluent English. She loves traveling and has been traveled to more than 15 countries in her life. In addition to leisure traveling, she dealt with prestigious wineries globally in her previous job. Her experience in working with different cultures makes her aware of the importance of the mutual understanding when encountering different cultures. She is very active in participating MBA activities. She volunteered to organize the Chinese New Year TG last quarter, and is a member of various students’ clubs, including Woman in Business, Finance Society, and BizComm. She will be a reliable study tour leader because she is familiar with the companies that we are going to visit, and she is experienced in organizing traveling plans for herself, her family, and her clients in the past.

Cheryl Tsai, second year MBA student at the University of Washington with a concentration in Marketing. After getting her MA in Journalism in Taiwan, she worked for Information Security Magazine as an editor. She did plenty of work on researching global and dominant information security market. After that, she worked as a client service specialist in a second largest English newspaper in Taiwan, analyzing client advertising needs and communicating objectives to internal production department. Eighty percent of her clients are the largest hotels in Taiwan, and fifty percent of the projects are about sightseeing spots supplements. With this experience, Cheryl is familiar with the culture and scenic spots sides of Taiwan. She also has experience of leading and arranging a group of international students to visit a company. Because of the success of this tour, the school represented by Cheryl built up consolidated relationship with this company. With the experience as an organizer of visiting company and the plenty knowledge of IT, sightseeing industries, Cheryl would be a reliable courier for this tour.

Faculty Representative:

TED KLASTORIN is the Burlington Northern/Burlington Resources Professor of Operations Management in the Department of Management Science (School of Business), Adjunct Professor in the Department of Health Services (School of Public Health and Community Medicine), and Adjunct Professor of Industrial Engineering (College of Engineering) at the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington. He holds a B.S. degree from Carnegie-Mellon University (1969) and a Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin.

Professor Klastorin is a senior research fellow at the IC2 Institute, The University of Texas, Austin, Texas. He previously taught at the Babcock Graduate School of Management, Wake Forest University (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) as well as the University of Washington and the University of Texas. At the UW, he was the founding chair of the Management Science Department and a co-founder of the PEMM Program (Program in Engineering and Manufacturing Management)–a joint program of the College of Engineering and the School of Business.

Professor Klastorin’s research interests include project management, and supply chain management issues in manufacturing and service organizations. His current research projects include a study of the impact of random disrutpive events (e.g., strikes) on project planning, and coordination issues in decentralized supply chains. His articles have appeared in IIE Transactions, the Journal of Applied Psychology, and Management Science, among others. He is currently completing a textbook entitled Project Management: Tools and Trade-offs, which is scheduled to be published by John Wiley & Sons in 2003.

Professor Klastorin has consulted with numerous organizations, including Boeing, Starbucks, Fluke Corp, and Microsoft (where he has assisted with the design of Microsoft Project). He is a member of INFORMS (Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences), IIE (Institute of Industrial Engineers), and POMS (Production and Operations Management Society) and serves on the editorial boards of Manufacturing & Service Operations Management (M&SOM) and IIE Transactions.

Professor Klastorin’s Home Page: http://bschool.washington.edu/faculty/z.asp?ID=88

Global Business Center

Jenn Adrien in the Global Business Center is the manager for the Study Tour program. Her responsibilties cover all administrative and managerial roles for all the tours as a whole, from selecting and training the Study Tour leadership teams to evaluating the program’s impact on cross-cultural learning, from running the lottery to helping teams establish in-country contacts and manage their budgets. Jenn has a B.A. in French and a M.Ed in Counseling. She joined the GBC in January 2006, since which time she has overseen 15 Study Tours and even participated in one. Jenn’s favorite thing about Study Tours is the knowledge that participants will carry meaningful memories from their tours for the rest of their lives.