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Rice Business ranks number one as a top business school with the most first-generation college students, 26% in a three-year average.
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Rice Business research shows that when K-12 public schools focus on student and family priorities, they optimize resources and improve academic outcomes.
18 Jun
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School Updates
Provost Amy Dittmar announced Rice faculty member promotions who demonstrated excellence in scholarship, teaching, mentoring, service and leadership. Promotions are effective July 1.
18 Jun
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"As I researched MBA programs in Houston, it became apparent that Rice is THE business school in Houston. Rice made a lot more sense for us and it checked the box for all my other criteria such as cohort size, tuition, and job outcomes."
"The biggest myth about Rice Business is that everyone is crazy smart and intensely competitive. Everyone is legitimately crazy smart, but the “all competition all the time” myth is not true. I have made incredible friends during this program. We’re all in it together."
Transactional communication can eat up as much as 44% of your work day, according to research from Rice Business Wisdom. Planned conversations work to inspire employees and keep them engaged.
Takeya Green '22 was recently awarded the AT&T Future Executive Leader of Distinction Award in Honor of Randall Stephenson from the Texas Business Hall of Fame.
Congratulations to Matthew Goldsby '21 and Bo Bothe '05 for being named Houston Business Journal's most admired CEOs.
The Houston Business Journal has named 105 women as honorees, including several Rice Business alumnae, for the 2022 Women Who Mean Business Awards, recognizing women in leadership roles who have demonstrated excellence in their careers and community.
Vikas Mittal, marketing professor at Rice Business, says when oil prices are high, many companies in the oil and gas industry spend like “drunken pirates” as they chase revenue growth, bigger market shares and higher profits. When prices fall, they’ll tighten belts — often too much — and fire workers.
In recent years, brands became associated with conservative or liberal views as companies or their CEOs increasingly took stands on prominent political issues, Vikas Mittal, a professor of marketing at Rice Business, who has studied the issue, told ABC News.
Challenges at Baker Hughes may foreshadow struggles for industry's transition to lower carbon energy
“A lot of oil field services companies have lost focus,” says Vikas Mittal, marketing professor at Rice Business. “They want to be a technology company, they want to be a digital company, they want to be a socially responsible company... The one thing they don't want to be is a service company.”
Identifying the best circumstances to make creativity bloom is one of the driving questions in a study by Rice Business Professor Jing Zhou and colleague Inga J. Hoever, a professor at the Barcelona School of Management in Spain.
