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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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‘Career portfolioing’ is a trend where people assemble different sources of income, such as side gigs, to give them a measure of independence from employers who provide little job security. Rice Business professor Scott Sonenshein discusses the trend for The Conversation.
Rice Business professor Vikas Mittal weighs in with this opinion piece featured in The Hill. "Research proves that higher customer satisfaction increases customer retention and referrals, pricing power, sales, margins, cash flow and stock price."
Minjae Kim, assistant professor of management in organizational behavior at Rice Business, was ranked one of 2022’s 50 best undergraduate business professors by Poets and Quants.
For the fourth consecutive year, Rice and the University of Houston rank No. 1 in the graduate and undergraduate categories from the Princeton Review. Rice Business placed No. 1 in the best graduate programs for entrepreneurs.
Entrance exams are not as ubiquitously required among the leading online MBA programs as they are in traditional master’s of business administration programs. Rice Business ranks among other schools with the top GMAT scores.
Rice Business professor Nicola Secomandi, along with University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration professor Selvaprabu Nadajarah, were recently invited by the European Journal of Operational Research to conduct a review of the operations literature on real options in energy.
A paper co-written by Kunal Sachdeva, Assistant Professor of Finance at Rice Business, examines the evolution of ESG reports for S&P 500 companies and explores how the content of ESG reports has evolved in the absence of regulation.
Rice Business will offer a Ph.D. with a concentration in organizational behavior starting next fall. The deadline to apply is Jan. 13, 2023.
George Andrews, associate dean of degree programs at Rice Business, advises students to set up a designated workspace, and schedule time outside of class to study, prepare assignments and meet with their team for group projects.
The Consortium, whose members include Rice Business, has had a mission of the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion in graduate business education and American business since 1966.
