Decluttering expert Marie Kondo, author of international bestseller The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up and host of Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo, revealed the cover for her April 2020 nonfiction book, Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life, co-authored by Scott Sonenshein.
A potential reason for local high fees is that people are using ATMs less frequently. Utpal Dholakia, a professor of marketing at Rice University, said customers are making more electronic payments using services such as Apple Pay, Google Pay and other apps.
Dean shares what Rice's B-School looks for in its handpicked students and the must-haves that will make them leaders and complex problem-solvers.
For 29 years, NFL executive Tony Wyllie, an MBA graduate from Rice, has helped sports organizations and their athletes with branding and communications, including nearly a decade as a senior vice president of communications for the Washington Redskins. Now, Wyllie, 51, is heading into his next chapter as the regional president and managing director for Special Olympics North America.
The company, HopSkipDrive of Los Angeles, hires vetted caregivers to drive children 6 and older at the click of an app. HopSkipDrive and similar services, such as VanGo, which also operates in Houston, are part of a societal shift of paying for services that in the past may have been done by neighbors, friends or family, said Utpal Dholakia, a marketing professor at Rice University.
In a recent study, Rice Business professor Shiva Sivaramakrishnan found that board members actually need incentives — both short- and long-term — to act in stakeholders' best interests.
Turbines to run liquefied natural gas plants in the Arctic Circle. Lighter and easier-to-assemble equipment to extract oil and natural gas thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface. Drones to detect methane leaks from oil wells and pipelines. Cleaner power to run hydraulic fracturing operations and lower greenhouse emissions.
At Wharton, MBA apps fell by 5.4%. Thus far, only two top 25 schools have reported slight increases: Chicago Booth, where applications rose 3.4%, and Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Management, which experienced a 6.5% rise.
When it comes to investing, conservatives may have a built-in advantage, according to a study by business scholars at Rice University, the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), the University of Bath and Southern Methodist University (SMU).
The recent Democratic debates confirmed that universal access to health care insurance is a core issue for the 2020 election, although it’s difficult keeping up with all the proposals. "Medicare for All" gets the most press, but its cost may be prohibitive, and has no chance of surviving the health care industry lobbying in Congress.
If you’re considering an MBA, research supports that an MBA degree is a valuable investment, said Dean Peter Rodriguez, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University. He added that employers demand MBA talent, and alumni of MBA programs report an impressive career trajectory since graduation.
The ice cream maker’s response to these tampering incidents can either make or break the brand’s reputation. “I cannot imagine how these (ice cream licking) videos would not affect buying decisions and consumer confidence during the middle of ice cream season,” Utpal Dholakia, a professor of business and marketing at Rice University, recently told Houston Chronicle.
