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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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As the climate debate heats up ahead of the 2020 elections, the country’s oil and gas companies want to get in front of the curve. But they may be hampered by a longstanding culture of playing defense, according to an energy industry expert at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
Houstonians care disrupted because fewer hospital systems can bargain with more insurers. Vivian Ho is the Baker Institute Chair in Health Economics at Rice University and professor at Baylor College of Medicine
A new survey finds men are more willing to rack up credit card debt if Valentine’s Day gifts are involved. In fact, research shows some behaviors tend to reinforce people’s gender identity — and that includes Valentine’s Day gift-giving behavior, according to a marketing and customer relationships expert at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
“Trade wars aren’t worth it and this one wasn’t worth it, either,” Peter Rodriguez, dean of Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business told the editorial board. “It may have been faster, but we could have gotten here in much easier ways.”
Like dieting, though, self-deprivation from stuff is hard to sustain. Now Rice Business professor Utpal Dholakia and former Rice Business doctoral students Jihye Jung, now at the University of San Antonio, and Nivriti Chowdhry, now with Amazon, have devised an alternative. In four separate studies, the team found that it’s possible to redirect the urge to buy by reflecting on what we already have.
Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch were fired by team owner Jim Crane Monday after Major League Baseball suspended them for a year each following an investigation that discovered Houston cheated using technology en route to winning the 2017 World Series.
Craving a cortado? Rice now has another option when it comes to getting caffeinated: Audrey’s, which is now open for business after a soft launch last semester.
The march toward gender equity in full-time MBA programs is experiencing what’s called halting progress. Analysis of a handful of schools outside the U.S. reveals gradual progress — but makes clear that U.S. schools are leading the way in the drive to achieve and maintain equal gender representation in MBA programs.
Rebellion Photonics, an oil and gas technology company co-founded in 2009 by Rice Business alumna Allison Lami Sawyer, was acquired by Honeywell. The company will become part of Honeywell's Safety and Productivity Solutions business and also will be used in Honeywell's Performance Materials and Technologies business to help manufacturers improve safety and compliance.
In this Monday roundup of Houston innovators, we traverse into the restaurant, health care, and higher education industries with a startup founder focused on using technology to improve the dining experience, a self-starter in health care, and a leader on the Rice University campus with a new office.
