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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 Business’ podcast, Owl Have You Know, is hosting a special live recording event March 25 with New York Times best-selling author Scott Sonenshein and CEO of the Houston Symphony John Mangum.
Marketing professor Utpal Dholakia weighs in on the measures taken by the White House to reduce credit card fees and their potential response.
Army veteran Ken Jackson went from piloting Black Hawks to private wealth management at Goldman Sachs–the bridge being the Rice Business MBA program. In this edition of Real Humans: Alumni, see how Jackson’s MBA put him in the entrepreneurial mindset, his secret weapon that has allowed him to thrive confidently in the wealth management landscape.
Why do people support politicians who make blatantly false statements? A forthcoming study co-authored by Rice Business professor Minjae Kim dug into this phenomenon and found that people knowingly support falsehoods when it aligns with their personal politics.
The Conversation interviewed Eleanor Putnam-Farr, assistant professor of marketing at Rice Business and co-author of “Forgot Your Bottle or Bag Again? How Well-Placed Reminder Cues Can Help Consumers Build Sustainable Habits,” about the challenges of changing people’s behavior – even when their intentions are good.
Rice University's team, Prosperity Without Prejudice, clinched the first prize of $20,000, spotlighting the event's impact on promoting racial and economic justice through innovative corporate strategies.
According to a study co-authored by Rice Business professor Vikas Mittal, public schools can revitalize themselves by embracing a customer focus. “Ideally, every school’s customer should be the family—the student and their parents. Instead, leadership has become internally focused trying to appease different power brokers and stakeholders."
ClearAdmit gathered average GRE scores at the top U.S. programs from the class of 2025 to help potential applicants get a better idea of where they stack up against others.
“With the rise of AI, students in 2024 may need to focus more on digital skills compared to their predecessors. Online learning requires more technological familiarity and self-direction,” says George Andrews, the associate dean of degree programs at Rice Business.
Emma Konet '24 is featured in the latest episode of the Houston Innovators Podcast, discussing her software company, Tierra Climate.
