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Rice University ranks first in Texas for 10-year return on investment, with alumni seeing roughly $334,000 in gains. Its strong earnings outcomes keep Rice at the top of both short and long-term ROI comparisons statewide.
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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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In an opinion piece in The Hill, Rice Business marketing professor Vikas Mittal says that Bud Light's sales fell due to product quality, low customer satisfaction, and management errors, not just one incident.
What keeps us from bridging the wage gap? In a peer-reviewed commentary regarding research that examines workplace victim-blaming, Rice Business professor Mikki Hebl and former Rice Ph.D. students interrogate the role victim-blaming plays in perpetuating the gender wage gap.
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.”
