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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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While epiphanies are powerful, they can also feel rare, but it’s possible to take steps to invite more of them into your life, says Erik Dane, distinguished associate professor of management at the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University.
Local business professionals and aspiring corporate leaders seeking that extra nugget of management know-how will not have to go far to learn new tactics and strategies, as Rice University is bringing a four-day, intensive leadership program to The Woodlands this fall.
Civil Bank has signed an agreement with Leadership Academy Nepal with an aim to enhance the leadership skills of its staffers, as per a media release. Affiliated with Rice University Business School, Leadership Academy Nepal is a private initiative that aspires to play a role in addressing human resource challenges in Nepal and the South Asia region.
In December 2018, Commtrex was recognized as “Most Promising Company” at the 2018 Texas Digital Summit, hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and Station Houston at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
But the fact is, you have to go well down the ranking to get into the realm of anyone’s idea of “affordable.” Only three schools ranked by P&Q in the top 25 find their way into the “bottom” 20 for cost: No. 24 Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business is eighth overall at $116,530; No. 25 Indiana University Kelley School of Business is 16th overall at $137,910; and No. 18 Texas-Austin McCombs School of Business is 20th, at $146,908.
Last week’s raid on the Catholic Diocese of Dallas, which police say hasn’t fully cooperated with a sexual abuse investigation, comes in the wake of dozens of Catholic bishops releasing lists of the priests in their dioceses who were credibly accused of child abuse. The raid is symbolic of a crisis of faith in the organization and its leadership, according to a reputation management expert at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
Governor Greg Abbott has appointed Rice Business adjunct professor Ronnie Hagerty, Ph.D., along with Lonnie Hsia and Lori Stevens and reappointed Kirk Beckert, and Roger O’Dell to the OneStar National Service Commission for terms set to expire on March 3, 2021.
Escalating trade tensions with China could jeopardize or delay proposed liquefied natural gas projects on the Gulf Coast by raising construction costs in the United States and prices in China, hurting the emerging industry's competitiveness in one of the world's biggest energy markets, analysts and economists say. The trade war adds uncertainty into long-term planning for energy projects, said Peter Rodriguez, dean of the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University.
So how do people make sense of the epiphanies when they experience them? In a set of unprecedented studies, Rice Business professor Erik Dane set out to find answers, first examining people who'd experienced general epiphanies, then analyzing a set of accounts of work- and career-related epiphanies themselves.
