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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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Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business, has launched, The Index, a podcast that explores thought-provoking topics and business-related ideas.
New federal rules on the use of health reimbursement accounts (HRAs) by employers, which become effective Jan. 1, 2020, could be a game changer in slowing the growth of health insurance premiums.
The next time you visit a Costco warehouse store, observe the price tags. In addition to showing the cost of an item, Costco’s price tags encode unique information. The price endings, such as $8.99 versus $8.97, convey special meanings to the subset of shoppers who are literate in Costco’s price vocabulary.
The Princeton Review ranks Rice University and the University of Houston as having among the best entrepreneurship programs in the country.
A former writer and journalist, Mitchell completed the Advanced Management Program at Rice's Jesse H. Jones School of Management and spent 14 years in the pharmaceutical industry before attending culinary school at the Art Institute of Houston.
Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, one of the country’s top-ranked business schools, has launched a new podcast, The Index, which examines the science behind scandals, epiphanies, live performance and other aspects of our lives. The Index grew out of a collaboration between Texas Monthly and Rice Business at the 2019 South by Southwest music and technology festival, where the two entities co-hosted a pop-up experience in an Austin storefront.
Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, one of the country's top-ranked business schools, has launched a new podcast, The Index, which examines the science behind scandals, epiphanies, live performance and other aspects of our lives.
Panel discussion sponsored by Advancial, Lincoln Leadership Advisors and The Village School. 11 a.m.-1 p.m., The Village School, 2005 Gentryside Drive. Zoran Perunovic of Rice University will moderate a panel with Olympic medalist Irene Montrucchio, Marife Alvarez of BP and Katherine Brewer of The Village School. Cost: Free for human resources professionals.
Investment has become global. That’s not news, of course, but the extent of the phenomenon might surprise you: Foreign funds today hold more than eight times more stock in listed companies than they did in 2000.