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Rice University’s Virani Undergraduate School of Business is introducing the Moody Business Scholars Program, a highly selective, cohort-based undergraduate experience designed to prepare high-achieving business students for careers in competitive industries.
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The 26th annual Women in Leadership Conference (WILC) welcomed hundreds of women to Rice Business’ McNair Hall for a day of networking, learning and inspiration for climbing the ladder in their careers. This year’s theme was “Pass the Torch: Together, We Will Carry the Flame.”
11 Mar
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Research from Rice Business professors John Barry, Bruce Carlin, and Alan Crane shows how firms use hurdle rates differently in practice than finance theory predicts.
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Law enforcement officials recently raided the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston for evidence on a Conroe priest accused of abuse. To understand why scandal persists and what should be done to fully address it, we talk to Anastasiya Zavyalova, assistant professor at Rice Business School who specializes in reputation management of organizations in crisis.
How is the retail industry in emerging markets different from developed economies? Professor Siddharth Singh discusses insights from a recent analysis of FMCG marketing in India.
CEO World Magazine lists Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business on their top 100 best schools in the world, taking the number 56 spot.
In fact, “the more state officials that serve on the board, the worse the performance of the private equity investments made by the pension fund,” says Rauh. That disconcerting insight emerges from a paper recently published in the Journal of Finance by Rauh and colleagues Aleksandar Andonov of University of Amsterdam and Yael V. Hochberg of Rice University.
The Rice Business Plan Competition, the largest such business plan competition in the world, will give out more money this year than last year.
Barretto has experience as an educator shaping students in her role as a teacher in Preschool Programs for Children with Disabilities, Kindergarten, 1
The world’s richest and largest startup business competition is now open for applications from students around the globe. Graduate students with startup ventures are encouraged to apply for the 19th annual Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) April 4-6 at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business. Winners will be rewarded with prizes expected to exceed $1.5 million.
In 2005, a grand jury issued a report finding leaders concealed sexual abuse by priests there for four decades. Rice Business Professor, Anastasiya Zavayalova, has been examining how parishioners reacted to the archdiocese releasing names of the priests involved.
The home purge TV show is now as rigorously structured as the hero's journey or a Petrarchan sonnet. In it we see the act of decluttering as a quest, and the tidied home as a proxy for our reborn selves. It's a form wonderfully suited to the animistic methods of Marie Kondo, the Japanese tidiying guru who taught the world to kiss its socks goodbye with a novel organising principle: if your belongings don't spark joy, thank them for their service and show them the door.
Clutter: why we have it, what it does to us and how to climb out from under its heavy burden.
