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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 is the best city for studying entrepreneurship in 2020, according to a report released Tuesday by the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. The University of Houston is the best undergraduate school for entrepreneurship studies in North America, and Rice University is the best graduate school.
Rice University and its Jones Graduate School of Business have the No. 1 graduate entrepreneurship program in the U.S., according to the 2020 rankings announced today by the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.
“Increasingly what we’ve seen is that individuals working for organizations, especially organizations with big platforms, whether they be sports teams are probably the most prominent example, (…) are increasingly willing to speak their minds,” Scott Sonenshein, management professor at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, told News 88.7.
“I was willing to support this action as long as, on the condition, that it was accompanied with a clear articulation that for the time being the setting of monetary policy was, quote unquote, ‘appropriate,’” Kaplan told reporters after a talk at an energy conference run by Rice University’s Rice School of Business students.
Marie Kondo has another book in the works: “Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life” to hit shelves April 7th, 2020. Working with organizational psychologist Scott Sonenshein, Kondo wrote a book to help you drain your life from redundant meetings, mounds of disorganized paperwork, a never-ending inbox and unnecessary tasks.
In the debut of an inaugural ranking, Rice Business claims the #11 spot among the world's best entrepreneurship programs.
MBAs were behind some of this decade's most lucrative startups, including Rice Business alum Vinay Acharya '19. The Class of 2019 has more in the works. Check out this year's most promising MBA startups.
“If there is not a pipeline of diverse applicants getting their professional degrees, there are simply fewer diverse people to choose from,” says Mikki Hebl, a professor of management and psychology at Rice University in Houston.
Rice’s Cohen House was the site of a celebratory occasion Oct. 4 as the Jones Graduate School of Business community gathered for the Rice Business Alumni Awards, which annually recognize alumni in six categories for outstanding achievements in their professional fields and exemplary leadership.
In a year when MBA applications plunged at just about every U.S. business school, the Jones Graduate School of Business experienced a surge – joining the University of Chicago as the only Top 25 MBA programs that increased applications. Of course, Rice has long been an ascendant program. It is the Southeastern sparkplug with grand ambitions, never satisfied and always evolving. In the process, Jones has increasingly lived up to the larger university’s “Ivy of the South” reputation.