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Graduate Entrepreneurship Program
Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine, 2020, 2021 & 2022
Full-Time MBA Program with The Most Minority Students in Top 25
Poets & Quants, 2020
Best MBA For Finance
Princeton Review, 2022
Best MBA For Consulting
Princeton Review, 2022
Prior to Rice, I started a career coaching business on top of my full-time job as a corporate tech recruiter. At Rice, I have been able to meet several folks who managed businesses outside of their "day jobs." I knew Rice is ranked #1 for its entrepreneurial program, but it was still so refreshing to meet people who share my same spirit of creating and innovating in business.
Full-Time MBA ‘22
The classes I have taken have taught me many new things that I have not been previously aware of. I have also made many new friends that I will cherish forever and continue to be friends with post-MBA.
Professional MBA '22
One of the things the MBA program has given me is confidence — the feeling that there’s nothing I can’t explore.
Executive MBA ‘21
Get an inside look as artist Kate Shepherd creates Rice Business’ stunning new wall painting in luminous shades of red and grey, a hypnotic visual connection to the architecture of McNair Hall’s octagonal atrium. The result, titled “Tricycle Red, Pelican Grey, etc., partial octagons,” is a work of art equal in boldness to the students of Rice Business.
Rice Business Wisdom is our online ideas magazine that features faculty research.
Based on research by Vikas Mittal
By Deborah Lynn Blumberg
Based on research by Siyu Yu
Successful business operations strategies are the foundation for growing and distributing a company’s products, services and profits in a post-pandemic world. Our growing operations management program is led by faculty who teach students to manage businesses confidently and effectively through design, planning, control, coordination and improvement of business processes.
On May 10, Craig Taylor, founder and CEO of Houston-based Iapetus Holdings, was named as one of the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2022 finalists in the program’s Central South region. Meanwhile, Taylor last month was named 2022 Veteran Entrepreneur of the Year by the Rice Business Veterans Association at Rice Business.
This week, 39 energy startup companies from all over the world pitched in Houston — and nine were recognized as being the most promising of the batch. The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship returned its Offshore Technology Conference pitch event to its in-person capacity.
The Rice Business Veterans Association at Rice Business elected Craig Taylor as the recipient of the 2022 Veteran Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Taylor is the founder and CEO of Iapetus Holdings LLC.
