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Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week begins Sept. 15 and exemplifies how Houston is developing and scaling real solutions for the challenge of meeting growing global energy demand while reducing carbon emissions.
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Vikas Mittal, J. Hugh Liedtke Professor of Marketing at Rice Business, directs C-CUBES, where research on customer-based strategy drives insights for organizations to improve value, engagement and long-term performance.
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In The Media
Houston’s ChopnBlok, founded by Chef Ope Amosu '14, was named to The New York Times’ 2025 list of America’s 50 best restaurants. The Montrose spot earned praise for its vibrant West African dishes and was hailed as a standout dining destination.
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Rice Business is included in this list of five U.S. universities that host fully funded Ph.D. programs. Upon admission, students receive complete financial assistance, preparing them for instructional roles in areas such as accounting, finance, organizational behavior, and strategic management.
What questions can you expect in your MBA interview? Each year, Clear Admit calls for applicants to submit interview reports, revealing school-specific questions.
Keep an eye on these business schools in 2024, as they range from significant investments to innovative programming, with Rice Business being among them.
How can leaders inspire agility during a crisis? Learn three critical leadership strategies that helped two prominent symphonies transform during the pandemic.
Rice University’s Office of Innovation has named Brad Burke as associate vice president for industry and new ventures. This new role creates alignment with initiatives in the Office of Innovation and enables the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship to further Rice’s industry relationships and accelerate the scaling of Rice startups.
Applications are open for university startups to compete in the Rice Business Plan Competition from April 6-8, 2024. The competition, entering its 24th year, gives collegiate entrepreneurs real-world experience to pitch their startups, enhance their business strategy and learn what it takes to launch a successful company.
In a new study, Rice Business professors Jae Chung and Ajay Kalra analyze over 55,000 Instagram influencer posts to uncover strategies for increasing follower engagement. Their research provides data-driven insights for brands that run influencer marketing campaigns.
Each year, Bloomberg Businessweek compiles a ranking of the best MBA programs across the globe while also recording where grads of these business schools go to work. Rice Business is one of the top three energy target schools with 13 hires in 2023.
Ruth Reitmeier, director of coaching at Rice Business, discusses the evolving mindset and behaviors that characterize the journey to deep, sustainable change.
Even though the inflation rate is lower than it was last year, prices haven't necessarily gone down. Rice Business marketing professor Utpal Dholakia says inflation, “makes us more tolerant to higher prices and more tolerant to the fact that I’m not going to get a good deal.”
