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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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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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Utpal Dholakia, a professor of marketing at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, is available to discuss consumer behavior and panic-buying during the COVID-19 pandemic. “Everyone is panic-buying, not just all over the country, but basically all over the world,” Dholakia said.
Members of the Ajayan Research Group led by Rice graduate student Kimmai Tran were among the “highly commended” teams recognized by UNESCO and the World Federation of Engineering Organizations’ first annual World Engineering Day Young Engineers Competition.
Many Americans who are worried about being able to provide food, water and other necessities for their families during the coronavirus outbreak aren’t making rational decisions, according to a consumer behavior expert at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
Our own bad habits and the natural entropy of most systems has caused misery and burnout, and attendant self-help books. Marie Kondo collaborated on this one with Scott Sonenshein, an organizational psychologist, and they take turns explaining how to tidy desks, drawers, meetings (otherwise known as activity clutter), time, inboxes, behaviors and, ultimately, careers.
Recruiting for some industries generally starts early in an MBA’s second year. By February, about 60% of students will normally have offers, says Philip Heavilin, executive director of career development at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business in Houston. By graduation in May, 80% will have a job. The experience of the class of 2020 could show a sharp contrast between those who secured positions before the virus-triggered market crash, and those hunting for work afterward, he says.
Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business believes executive education should be available to all levels, not just senior-level executives. That philosophy guides the school’s upcoming executive education courses this spring, which include the Corporate Innovation Certificate and B2B Marketing Strategy: A Customer-Centric Approach.
Peter Rodriguez, dean of Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business, said the annual festival has "a significant impact on the standing of the city and on the perception of Austin as a regional hub of technology and creativity," benefits that will be difficult to reproduce if the event can't continue. "Anytime you lose a brand, that's costly," Rodriguez said. "That would be a big loss for Austin and for Texas."
The likelihood of contagion is even higher when the person behaving badly is in a position of power, says Marlon Mooijman, a professor of organizational behavior at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business. “Some research has shown that abusive practices (such as bosses humiliating others and using degrading language) tend to trickle down in organizations.,” Mooijman says.
Lizette Melendez grew up in El Paso, one of the poorest cities in Texas, and was the first in her family to go to university. Now she is part of the first cohort in the MBA @ Rice, launched by Houston’s Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University in 2018 on the 2U online learning platform.
The impact of accelerators remains open to debate, according to research co-authored by Yael Hochberg, Rice University’s Ralph S. O’Connor Professor in Entrepreneurship. Some researchers have found accelerators help startups grow, attract venture capital and add a spark to the innovation ecosystem. Other researchers, however, found the effects on a young company’s performance are muted or even negative.