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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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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.
Do you feel like you're able to be fully yourself at work? “In our research, we’ve talked to a lot of employees who feel like they’re concealing a ‘stigma,’ and in many of those cases we’ve seen that there’s a real cost to hiding,” says Mikki Hebl, PhD, a management professor and the Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Chair of psychology at Rice University.
Yael Hochberg, Head of Entrepreneurship Initiative, Rice University is on the The 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 Advisory Council
Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business plans to launch its first open enrollment off-campus program in The Woodlands this fall, responding to demand for its executive education programs for those in business and leadership roles. Executive education consists of non-degree programs for working professionals in management or executive roles, said Zoran Perunovic, director of executive education at Rice Business School.
William Arnold, a professor in the practice of energy management at Rice University’s graduate school of business, said if Chevron acquires the company it could signal an opportunity for a new stage in the area’s evolution as an energy employer.
Houston billionaire Tilman Fertitta has raised $316.25 million through a blank-check company for a future business deal.
To provide the online MBA program, UC-Davis is partnering with 2U Inc., an education technology company. Among 2U’s partners are the Harvard business analytics program, Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, and the data science program at Southern Methodist University.
The competition between Occidental Petroleum Corp. and Chevron Corp. to acquire Anadarko, a large independent oil and gas producer headquartered near Houston, has captivated the business media in recent days.
The battle for America’s future as a global technology leader is being waged in locations that have initiated innovative programs to increase the number of graduates with STEM skills. City leaders continue to cultivate unique partnerships with local universities and community organizations to focus on building the pipeline of STEM talent. The Rice University Business Plan Competition is the world’s largest graduate-level student startup competition, with teams from around the world competing for more than $1 million in cash and prizes.
