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U.S. News ranks Rice Business among the top 20 MBA programs for high-paying finance and accounting careers, with 2024 graduates earning an average salary of $155,407.
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Rice Business will host the Rice Customer-Based Strategy Symposium on November 18, a recurring forum for sharing innovative ideas on customer-focused strategy and execution. The event features peer-reviewed research from top academics and industry insights from executives.
31 Oct
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Get to know some new members of the Rice Business MBA Class of 2027 in this edition of Real Humans: MBA Students from Clear Admit.
29 Oct
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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.
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.
