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Rice Business is pleased to announce that Bob Dittmar, the Houston Endowment Professor of Finance, has been appointed associate dean of the Virani Undergraduate School of Business, effective July 1.
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Rice Business Executive Education offers custom-made programs for companies that want to strengthen leadership, enhance culture or address specific management challenges or organizational opportunities.
9 Jun
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Rice University took center stage at the inaugural South by Southwest London, bringing Texas-sized ambition, pathbreaking innovation and global vision to one of the world’s premier gatherings of creative and intellectual leaders.
6 Jun
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The Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has established a new startup accelerator program called the Summer Venture Studio. The program is open to students of any major or year, including recent graduates.
Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business ranks 17th among top U.S. business schools and 29th globally — up from 28th and 47th a year ago, respectively — and is No. 1 in Texas, according to 2023 rankings from the Financial Times.
“We believe that the recognition of online and campus MBAs as equal degrees will continue to increase, but that the ability for institutions to offer different modalities to different consumers will continue to be of utmost importance,” says George Andrews, associate dean of degree programs at Rice Business.
Rice Business professor of accounting Ben Lansford says graduating students who might have pursued accounting a decade ago are now going into investment banking, data analysis and consulting: “Those jobs pay more and also don’t require the fifth year of college education.”
Rice Business is in the top 10 in eight categories in the Princeton Review’s newly released specialty business school rankings for 2023. The latest accolades come on the heels of the school’s fourth straight No. 1 entrepreneurship ranking and second straight No. 4 online MBA ranking.
Rice University's online MBA program has something to brag about. According to a new report, the program has risen through the ranks of other online MBA curriculums.
Ashley Ward ’24, a fellow with the Forté Foundation, an organization focused on career development and business education for women, and Ashleigh Rogers ’24, talk about what it means to be a woman in business.
Limiting cell phone use in classrooms may be one issue that can unite parents, school administrators and politicians from both sides of the aisle. Rice Business marketing professor Vikas Mittal contributes this opinion piece to The Hill.
Rice University's new online hybrid MBA Program is the result of research into the needs and desires of prospective business school students.
MBA salaries and bonuses were at record or near-record levels for the Class of 2022. Rice Business had a 14.9% increase in starting salaries in the last year.