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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.
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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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Beyond everyday items, having inflation on the brain is likely making people think more about prices than they normally would, explains Utpal Dholakia, professor of marketing at Rice Business.
Congratulations to Pierre Aristide and Keri Sprung for being featured in Poets and Quants Best & Brightest Executive MBAs Of 2022.
Cart.com CEO Omair Tariq '16 began by hawking jewelry in Houston flea markets. Now he's out to prove his tech company is a giant-killer. Rice Business lecturer Rafael Alvarez added, "...something great is in store for Houston because of the immigrants here.”
Andrew Clifton, MBA '13, has been named president of Zing Health. "Andrew embraces our mission to bring whole-person care to urban and rural areas with fewer medical resources," says Dr. Eric E. Whitaker, Zing Health founder and CEO.
Rice Business dean Peter Rodriguez called Samsung's expansion plans "a traditionally significant investment in the U.S. economy. It has few or no peers in terms of scale and strategic importance."
"For summer internship we hired our biggest summer internship class ever at about 500 just for MBAs across all U.S. schools. It could vary anywhere from places like Booth, HBS, Kellogg, Wharton, Stanford—to Rice, CMU, UT Austin, Notre Dame."
Back in the Paleolithic Age of online marketing — say, 15 years ago — the idea of online sales as a significant business vehicle for brands such as Target or Walmart was almost unimaginable. According to research from Rice Business professor Utpal Dholakia, it's time to update your thinking.
The Boston Consulting Group, one of the premier recruiters of MBA talent, is a highly selective employer. This year, they expanded what had been a largely U.S.-centric group of schools by nine other additional MBA programs, adding many of the best European players as well as a few in the U.S., including Rice Business.
Global supply chain and operations implementation consulting firm, SGS Maine Pointe, announced today that it has appointed Rice Business alumna Tiffany Pankratz-Umbehrto the position of Executive Vice President, Consumer Goods & Retail.
Three schools, including Rice Business, haven’t changed their estimates in four years. Kellogg and Emory Goizueta only increased their estimates this year after years of not doing so.