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Rice MBA student Sydney Harrison shares her thoughts on questions to ask and actions to take when you’re not sure what you want to do in business school.
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Rice Business senior lecturer Al Danto shares advice for veterans applying to business school, from finding the right program to translating military experience for admissions.
6 Oct
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A new article explores how colleges can use entrepreneurship education to prepare students for a rapidly changing job market, highlighting Rice University’s startup accelerator and institutionwide focus on entrepreneurship.
5 Oct
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Rice MBA student Sydney Harrison shares her thoughts on questions to ask and actions to take when you’re not sure what you want to do in business school.
Rice Business senior lecturer Al Danto shares advice for veterans applying to business school, from finding the right program to translating military experience for admissions.
A new article explores how colleges can use entrepreneurship education to prepare students for a rapidly changing job market, highlighting Rice University’s startup accelerator and institutionwide focus on entrepreneurship.
Rice Business professors Vikas Mittal and Alessandro Piazza co-author new research showing that executives often misunderstand what customers value. Their seven-year study of 72 companies offers a data-driven framework to help businesses focus on what matters most.
“My favorite MBA professor is Utpal Dholakia from the Marketing faculty. He brings a passion and enthusiasm to teaching that is unrivaled by any course I’ve taken in undergrad or grad school. More importantly, he makes customer insight feel like a competitive weapon rather than a soft concept," said Felix Joseph, who was named one of Poets&Quants’ 2026 Best & Brightest MBAs to Watch.
Rice MBA Ope Amosu turned his homesickness for Nigerian food into ChòpnBlọk, a Houston restaurant sensation blending West African flavors with modern fast-casual dining.
Rice Business celebrates the grand opening of Virani Hall, a new 112,000-square-foot facility expanding space for the Jones Graduate School of Business, Virani Undergraduate School of Business and Executive Education programs.
The undergraduate business major, launched in 2021, rose four spots to No. 20 nationally. The entrepreneurship program climbed four spots to No. 8 — a rise of 23 places over the past three years.
Rice Business has grown dramatically over the past decade, and that momentum now has a new home in Asha and Farid Virani Hall, a 112,000-square-foot building which now stands alongside McNair Hall, offering students a combined 300,000 square-feet designed to support the school’s expanding community of graduate and undergraduate students, faculty, researchers and alumni.
The 112,000-square-foot facility expands the business school's footprint by 65%. It creates a central hub for the university’s most popular undergraduate major.
