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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.
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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.
11 Sep
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“Felix embodies the best of Rice Business. He leaves communities stronger than he found them, and I am confident his impact will continue well beyond our campus,” said George Andrews, associate dean of Degree Programs.
5 Sep
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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.
“Felix embodies the best of Rice Business. He leaves communities stronger than he found them, and I am confident his impact will continue well beyond our campus,” said George Andrews, associate dean of Degree Programs.
"Rice offers an incredibly supportive entrepreneurial ecosystem, filled with classmates, faculty, mentors, and alumni who are eager to advise and open doors. Whether the venture becomes a breakout success or simply an invaluable learning journey, Rice is one of the best environments to take that leap."
"I think part of what I’m hoping to accomplish here is to put Rice on the map for some of these firms who might not have otherwise thought of it as a place to recruit,” says Robert Dittmar, associate dean of the Virani Undergraduate School of Business.
Rice Business professor Anastasiya Zavyalova was named a runner-up for the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation’s Best Published Paper award, recognizing her research on the stigmatization of NGOs under Russian law.
Rice MBA student Sydney Harrison shares her journey from heavy civil construction to business school in a Poets&Quants essay, reflecting on career transitions, leadership and the lessons she brought from the jobsite to the classroom.
A Rice Business study by professor Tommy Pan Fang reveals what drives data center location decisions, finding that reliable power, water and high-capacity internet often matter more than tax incentives.
Shared law school ties between judges and attorneys can influence court outcomes, according to research co-authored by Rice Business professor David Zhang, raising questions about impartiality and disclosure.
Rice Business professor David Zhang explains how low mortgage rates are keeping homeowners from selling, contributing to the housing market’s ongoing “sideways struggle” as rates remain elevated.
