The University of Houston captured the #1 spot on the undergraduate entrepreneurship studies ranking list, up from the #2 last year. Rice University finished #1 on the graduate list, up from #3 last year. In all, 59 institutions made one or both of the lists.
Two Houston universities — Rice University and the University of Houston — have been ranked as having the best graduate entrepreneurship program and the best undergraduate entrepreneurship program in the country, respectively.
Houston is the best city for studying entrepreneurship in 2020, according to a report released Tuesday by the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. The University of Houston is the best undergraduate school for entrepreneurship studies in North America, and Rice University is the best graduate school.
“Increasingly what we’ve seen is that individuals working for organizations, especially organizations with big platforms, whether they be sports teams are probably the most prominent example, (…) are increasingly willing to speak their minds,” Scott Sonenshein, management professor at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, told News 88.7.
“I was willing to support this action as long as, on the condition, that it was accompanied with a clear articulation that for the time being the setting of monetary policy was, quote unquote, ‘appropriate,’” Kaplan told reporters after a talk at an energy conference run by Rice University’s Rice School of Business students.
Marie Kondo has another book in the works: “Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life” to hit shelves April 7th, 2020. Working with organizational psychologist Scott Sonenshein, Kondo wrote a book to help you drain your life from redundant meetings, mounds of disorganized paperwork, a never-ending inbox and unnecessary tasks.
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In the debut of an inaugural ranking, Rice Business claims the #11 spot among the world's best entrepreneurship programs.
“If there is not a pipeline of diverse applicants getting their professional degrees, there are simply fewer diverse people to choose from,” says Mikki Hebl, a professor of management and psychology at Rice University in Houston.
In a year when MBA applications plunged at just about every U.S. business school, the Jones Graduate School of Business experienced a surge – joining the University of Chicago as the only Top 25 MBA programs that increased applications. Of course, Rice has long been an ascendant program. It is the Southeastern sparkplug with grand ambitions, never satisfied and always evolving. In the process, Jones has increasingly lived up to the larger university’s “Ivy of the South” reputation.
Over two-thirds of all mergers fail, with the failures blamed on post-merger issues such as execution gaps, lack of cultural alignment and integration problems. Closer scrutiny of failed mergers and acquisitions in the oil and gas industry paints a different story. It appears CEOs and board members often create the conditions for failure by ignoring the most critical stakeholder, the customer, and instead focusing on cost cutting and efficiency as the primary source of shareholder value.
Major oil companies are seriously looking into low-carbon energy sources, said energy management professor Bill Arnold at Rice University. And it’s no longer just for PR reasons like in the past. “Developing wind power, electric vehicle recharging stations,” Arnold said. “But I think what they try to do is to say where do we actually have known skillsets right now and how can we apply them that’s compatible with this new interest.”
