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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 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.
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The Houston Business Journal has named 105 women as honorees, including several Rice Business alumnae, for the 2022 Women Who Mean Business Awards, recognizing women in leadership roles who have demonstrated excellence in their careers and community.
Vikas Mittal, marketing professor at Rice Business, says when oil prices are high, many companies in the oil and gas industry spend like “drunken pirates” as they chase revenue growth, bigger market shares and higher profits. When prices fall, they’ll tighten belts — often too much — and fire workers.
In recent years, brands became associated with conservative or liberal views as companies or their CEOs increasingly took stands on prominent political issues, Vikas Mittal, a professor of marketing at Rice Business, who has studied the issue, told ABC News.
Challenges at Baker Hughes may foreshadow struggles for industry's transition to lower carbon energy
“A lot of oil field services companies have lost focus,” says Vikas Mittal, marketing professor at Rice Business. “They want to be a technology company, they want to be a digital company, they want to be a socially responsible company... The one thing they don't want to be is a service company.”
Identifying the best circumstances to make creativity bloom is one of the driving questions in a study by Rice Business Professor Jing Zhou and colleague Inga J. Hoever, a professor at the Barcelona School of Management in Spain.
The Management Incubator, an interactive two-day program will return October 26-27, 2022, hosted at The Howard Hughes Corporation® The Woodlands Towers.
Detractors are suspicious of the anonymity that comes with blockchain technology. Supporters say it's exactly the point. Rice Business adjunct professor Manolo Sánchez explains.
The Rice Business MBA for Executives ranks at #11 on the latest Poets & Quants EMBA list.
The Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator named the early- to mid-stage startups that will participate in its second annual class — five of which are based in Houston. The 10-week program kicks off at the Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum in September.
Discussing the Texas commercial real estate market with Christine Mastandrea, adjunct professor in management – real estate at the Rice Business.
