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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.
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Many companies in the U.S. and elsewhere have been quick to sever ties to Russia – going well beyond applying the sanctions ordered by their governments.
Life science investors, leaders and innovators gathered at the Jones Graduate School of Business to discuss Houston’s role in the future of health care, medical technology innovation and life science commercialization during the 10th annual Texas Life Science Forum.
Shell, BP & ExxonMobil are pulling out of Russia even though it means steep financial hits for them. Rice Business Professor Yan Anthea Zhang explores how Western energy companies are recalculating the cost of doing business in Russia for The Conversation.
The 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC), hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jones Graduate School of Business, will be back in person and on campus April 7-9.
The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and Rice Business have announced the 42 student teams that will compete in the 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition, which returns to an in-person format on the Rice University campus in April.
Rice MBA Ope Amosu recently opened his fast-casual restaurant ChòpnBlọk in Post Houston, the renovated Barbara Jordon Post Office downtown.
“For an analyst or investor, it’s really easy to look at a company’s net income,” said Leila Peyravan, an assistant professor at Rice Business. "But there are a couple of issues with that.” One issue is that net income includes line items that are highly dependent on management’s financing and accounting decisions — but are unrelated to a company’s core business operations.
“Fortune 100s and 500s build and better one another and it’s great for people to associate us in Houston with great companies,” said Rice Business dean Peter Rodriguez.
A new wall painting by Kate Shepherd has joined the Rice University's permanent collection of public art. “Tricycle Red, Pelican Gray etc., partial octagons” was installed over a week in December in the lobby of McNair Hall at the Jones Graduate School of Business.
If the social cost of carbon were a tax paid by consumers, gas would cost 50 cents more per gallon--but it has no direct effect on the price of gas. Instead, it influences government policy & investments, write Rice Business lecturer Jim Krane & Baker Institute fellow Mark Finley.