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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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School Updates
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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School Updates
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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Rice Business and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have launched a new healthcare leadership program designed to help executives navigate the complexity of running healthcare organizations.
Despite the VC slowdown this year, clean tech and climate tech have remained attractive investments. This includes Texas. For example, the Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator reported in August that 17 of its early- to mid-stage startups have already raised more than $54.5 million this year.
Ten new ventures were named the “Most Promising Companies" at the 19th annual Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum. More than 90 energy ventures, 70 investor groups and 40 speakers connected at the forum Sept. 15 at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
Takeya Green '22 urges MBAs to step up and take ownership. “In my student fund class, I did not apply for a leadership role because I felt I had too little finance experience to be successful. This is one of the biggest mistakes I made during my time at Rice."
"Being the investment banking chair for the Rice Business finance association is my proudest achievement. Under my leadership, we were able to help secure over 95% investment banking internship positions for the first-year students recruiting for IB. "
"As I researched MBA programs in Houston, it became apparent that Rice is THE business school in Houston. Rice made a lot more sense for us and it checked the box for all my other criteria such as cohort size, tuition, and job outcomes."
"The biggest myth about Rice Business is that everyone is crazy smart and intensely competitive. Everyone is legitimately crazy smart, but the “all competition all the time” myth is not true. I have made incredible friends during this program. We’re all in it together."
Transactional communication can eat up as much as 44% of your work day, according to research from Rice Business Wisdom. Planned conversations work to inspire employees and keep them engaged.
Takeya Green '22 was recently awarded the AT&T Future Executive Leader of Distinction Award in Honor of Randall Stephenson from the Texas Business Hall of Fame.
Congratulations to Matthew Goldsby '21 and Bo Bothe '05 for being named Houston Business Journal's most admired CEOs.
