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23 of 54 business schools grew their GRE submission volume from 2022 to 2023, with the biggest leap coming at Rice Business, which jumped 24 percentage points to 31%.
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Rice Business offers several Executive Education courses that give aspiring leaders a jumpstart on their skills, including Leader as Coach, The Management Incubator and The Leadership Accelerator: a four-day, on-campus class geared towards more senior executives.
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The Jones Graduate School of Business is a power player in the MBA ranks, finishing 18th in Poets&Quants’ composite ranking of the top 100 U.S. programs and sixth in our ranking of the best online MBAs. As of fall 2021, Rice Jones also offers an undergraduate business major. Its first class will graduate this May.
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Takeya Green '22 was recently awarded the AT&T Future Executive Leader of Distinction Award in Honor of Randall Stephenson from the Texas Business Hall of Fame.
Congratulations to Matthew Goldsby '21 and Bo Bothe '05 for being named Houston Business Journal's most admired CEOs.
The Houston Business Journal has named 105 women as honorees, including several Rice Business alumnae, for the 2022 Women Who Mean Business Awards, recognizing women in leadership roles who have demonstrated excellence in their careers and community.
Vikas Mittal, marketing professor at Rice Business, says when oil prices are high, many companies in the oil and gas industry spend like “drunken pirates” as they chase revenue growth, bigger market shares and higher profits. When prices fall, they’ll tighten belts — often too much — and fire workers.
In recent years, brands became associated with conservative or liberal views as companies or their CEOs increasingly took stands on prominent political issues, Vikas Mittal, a professor of marketing at Rice Business, who has studied the issue, told ABC News.
Challenges at Baker Hughes may foreshadow struggles for industry's transition to lower carbon energy
“A lot of oil field services companies have lost focus,” says Vikas Mittal, marketing professor at Rice Business. “They want to be a technology company, they want to be a digital company, they want to be a socially responsible company... The one thing they don't want to be is a service company.”
Identifying the best circumstances to make creativity bloom is one of the driving questions in a study by Rice Business Professor Jing Zhou and colleague Inga J. Hoever, a professor at the Barcelona School of Management in Spain.
The Management Incubator, an interactive two-day program will return October 26-27, 2022, hosted at The Howard Hughes Corporation® The Woodlands Towers.
Detractors are suspicious of the anonymity that comes with blockchain technology. Supporters say it's exactly the point. Rice Business adjunct professor Manolo Sánchez explains.
The Rice Business MBA for Executives ranks at #11 on the latest Poets & Quants EMBA list.
