News & Events
As businesses across the country strive to deliver better customer experiences, a new nationwide study provides timely insights into what Americans value most in the products and services they use every day.
-
School Updates
Rice University has announced the launch of Rice Digital Learning and Strategy, a reimagined office aimed at expanding the university’s impact through innovative digital learning initiatives. Formerly known as Rice Online Learning, Rice Digital Learning and Strategy reflects the university’s expanded mission to integrate digital tools and strategies across all levels of education.
28 Apr
-
In The Media
Nine Houston universities have climbed through the ranks in U.S. News & World Report’s recently released report of the best graduate schools nationwide for 2025. Several graduate programs also appeared among the top 10 in a Texas-wide comparison.
23 Apr
Filter
Brad Burke, managing director of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, was selected to receive the 2023 Trailblazer Award.
Laszlo Tihanyi, the William Alexander Kirkland Professor of Strategic Management at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, has been appointed editor liaison for the Academy of Management’s portfolio of journals. Tihanyi was previously the editor of the Academy of Management Journal.
Poets&Quants asks its Best & Brightest MBAs and MBAs To Watch to share the faculty member who made the biggest impact on their business school experience. Rice Business professors John Wisneski and Eleanor Putnam-Farr have both been named in this year's list.
The state has yet to return to its pre-pandemic unemployment rate of about 3.5%, even as it leads the country in new jobs created. Rice Business dean Peter Rodriguez weighs in: “You can see the unemployment rate go down, but it will go down because of frustrated workers exiting the labor force and even exiting the state.”
Ten Houstonians are in the hot seat for deciding the best companies and individuals in Houston's innovation ecosystem, including Aziz Gilani, adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Rice Business.
Four Rice students took the top prize and $2,000 in cash at the University of Houston’s Undergraduate Commodity Competition Sept. 9. The event allows undergraduate students from across the nation to demonstrate their proficiency in commodity knowledge and investment research and present to a panel of judges from top firms in Houston.
Deciding to get your MBA is a major decision. Rice Business ranks highly on this list of business schools with the best Full-time MBA median starting salary to total out-of-state tuition from the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business.
Two new rankings have put the University of Houston and Rice University in the academic limelight. Rice Business climbed 10 spots — to No. 19 — in Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2023-24 ranking of full-time MBA programs. Rice holds the No. 1 spot among Texas programs.
Rice University’s Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) is partnering with DiverseCiti Houston to celebrate the influence and impact that 50 years of hip-hop has made on the world of business and entrepreneurship. The Go! ENTREPRENEUR Experience P.O.M - P.O.M Lifestyle Tour featuring New York hip-hop entrepreneur and record executive Damon Dash kicks off Sept. 23 in the Shell Auditorium of McNair Hall.
“Rising in the rankings for networking and diversity shows how Rice’s faculty and staff are dedicated to creating an entire environment and ecosystem that benefits our students, not just what happens inside the classroom,” Rice Business Dean Peter Rodriguez said. “I am especially proud of these metrics that highlight Rice’s ability to bring people together.”
