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Rice University ranks first in Texas for 10-year return on investment, with alumni seeing roughly $334,000 in gains. Its strong earnings outcomes keep Rice at the top of both short and long-term ROI comparisons statewide.
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Rice Business professor Mijeong Kwon finds that viewing passion for work as a moral virtue can harm employees and teams, leading to guilt, burnout and biased treatment of colleagues who are seen as less passionate.
26 Nov
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In The Media
Rice Business professor Mijeong Kwon argues that moralizing a love of work can undermine workplace well-being. Her research shows that treating intrinsic motivation as a virtue fuels guilt, burnout and biased judgments that disrupt team dynamics.
25 Nov
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Houston-based photographers Chris Bailey and Joseph West have brought automated technology and innovative efficiencies to the often cumbersome task of taking professional headshots. A prototype was tested by the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University and Intrepid Financial Partners in December 2019.
Full-Time MBA Katie Chung's next column of the Rice Report just dropped for Poets&Quants. Check out her latest advice about networking and how to break through the discomfort to form real relationships.
Yan “Anthea” Zhang, the Fayez Sarofim Vanguard Professor of Management at Rice Business, is the new president-elect of the Strategic Management Society (SMS). The SMS consists of over 3,000 members from more than 80 countries including academics, business practitioners and consultants.
Congrats to Samantha Lewis ’17, who recently joined the Houston-based Mercury Fund as principal. Formerly a director at GOOSE Capital, her passion for entrepreneurship and proven experience will serve her well. Good luck in this next chapter, Samantha!
“Employers are interested in attracting the best talent to their organizations. The delivery method of the program is less important than the level of talent that it graduates,” says Philip Heavilin, executive director of the Career Development Office.
Rice Business placed in the top 10 of five categories in The Princeton Review’s latest rankings of the Best Business Schools for 2021, including the number 6 spot for our newest program, MBA@Rice.
Rice Business alum Duncan Dickerson helps advise the world’s biggest oil companies on how to navigate the great carbon transition as the vice president of investment banking at Lazard in Houston.
Approximately 383,000 Texas residents chose health coverage on the marketplace from Nov. 1 to Nov. 21. "The combination of more carriers, little to no rate increases and the impact of job loss is what’s driving buying insurance,” said Ken Janda, adjunct professor of health policy management.
Prison farm improves food sustainability and reforms within the American correctional system. Doug Schuler, Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy, is quoted.
Panic buying has returned for its second round in the Bay Area, even though industry officials are assuring consumers the supply chain is fine. Utpal Dholakia, professor of marketing, makes the argument that it could even be viewed as rational consumer behavior.
