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The Princeton Review & Entrepreneur Name the Top Undergraduate & Graduate Schools for Entrepreneurship Studies for 2020

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. 

Nov 12, 2019
Jeanne Krier
Princeton Review

Two Houston universities rank No. 1 in country for entrepreneurship programs

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. 

Nov 12, 2019
Laura Gillespie
Houston Business Journal

Houston universities rank No. 1 for entrepreneurship studies

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. 

Nov 12, 2019
Andrea Leinfelder
Houston Chronicle

Why Corporations Are No Longer Reluctant To Take A Stance On Social Issues

“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.

Nov 08, 2019
Florian Martin
Houston Public Media

Fed's Kaplan says he supported rate cut only if Fed signaled nothing further

“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.

Nov 01, 2019
Ann Saphir
Reuters

Marie Kondo Is Going To Tidy Up Your Workplace

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.

Oct 29, 2019
Michelle Santiago Cortes
Refinery29

Meet The Most Disruptive MBA Startups Of 2019

MBAs were behind some of this decade's most lucrative startups, including Rice Business alum Vinay Acharya '19. The Class of 2019 has more in the works. Check out this year's most promising MBA startups.

Oct 28, 2019
Jeff Schmitt
Poets and Quants

The World's Best MBA Programs For Entrepreneurship

In the debut of an inaugural ranking, Rice Business claims the #11 spot among the world's best entrepreneurship programs.

Oct 28, 2019
Nathan Allen
Poets and Quants

What’s Holding Companies Back From Expanding Diversity

“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.

Oct 26, 2019
Maitane Sardon and Dieter Holger
The Wall Street Journal

Meet The Rice Jones MBA Class Of 2021

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.

Oct 20, 2019
Jeff Schmitt
Poets and Quants

Op-ed: Here's why oil and gas company mergers usually fail

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.

Oct 18, 2019
Vikas Mittal and Shrihari Sridhar
Houston Business Journal

Could Houston Be The ‘Energy Capital’ Without Oil And Gas?

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.”

Oct 16, 2019
Florian Martin
Houston Public Media
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