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Businesses know customer satisfaction drives success, yet rates keep falling. Research co-authored by Rice Business professor Vikas Mittal shows that leaders often rely on guesswork without credible data to identify and rank what customers truly value.
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Houston Energy and Climate Startup Week begins Sept. 15 and exemplifies how Houston is developing and scaling real solutions for the challenge of meeting growing global energy demand while reducing carbon emissions.
10 Sep
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Vikas Mittal, J. Hugh Liedtke Professor of Marketing at Rice Business, directs C-CUBES, where research on customer-based strategy drives insights for organizations to improve value, engagement and long-term performance.
9 Sep
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The annual diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) conference from Rice Business is slated for Oct. 27 and will provide a forum for awareness, dialogue and skill-building, according to event organizers.
Experts in corporate communications offer mixed advice. Some say the smartest move is to say nothing. Vikas Mittal, a professor of management and marketing at Rice Business, cautions against statements that appear to take a side or justify actions as “right or wrong.”
Jada Ferreira '22 worked full-time while earning her MBA at Rice Business. “I was analyzing clients’ carbon footprints during the day and learning how to build valuation models in Excel during the evenings. It was difficult, but incredibly rewarding, and I was able to finish the program with a 3.8 GPA.”
The conference, which saw its largest attendance in history this year, is the flagship event of the GCEC, which facilitates collaboration of global entrepreneurship center leaders with the goal of advancing, strengthening and celebrating the role universities fulfill in educating future entrepreneurs.
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.
