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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.
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School Updates
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.
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In The Media
Houston’s ChopnBlok, founded by Chef Ope Amosu '14, was named to The New York Times’ 2025 list of America’s 50 best restaurants. The Montrose spot earned praise for its vibrant West African dishes and was hailed as a standout dining destination.
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Amazon’s 'This Is Small Business' podcast launched a spinoff miniseries, 'This Is Small Business Next Generation', in partnership with Rice Business. The miniseries is hosted by Andrea Marquez, a future small business owner, and Mitchella Gilbert (“Mitch”), founder of OYA Femtech Apparel and an ex-RBPC competitor, as co-host.
Meet the Rice Business MBA Class of 2024 through in-depth profiles on the extraordinary students, their stories, and their dreams.
Full-Time MBA candidate Jahnavi Gudi is determined to break barriers for first-generation women in finance. "I think it’s important to address the systemic and academic barriers for women with my background to break into these competitive fields."
Meet Tareck Haykal, a Rice MD/MBA candidate pursuing plastic surgery and entrepreneurship. "I am very interested in entrepreneurship and Rice has been #1 for four years now."
"People today definitely want to continue to learn and to work," said Rice Business Dean Peter Rodriguez. "They want it to be accessible, affordable, and to make a tangible difference in their career."
Brad Burke, managing director of the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship, received the Outstanding Contributions to Advancing Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education Award at the 2023 Deshpande Symposium for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Higher Education.
nCourage Entrepreneurs has awarded two teams, Atma Leather (Banofi Leather) and Thryft Ship the investment award for Courageous Women Entrepreneurs at the 2023 Rice University Business Plan Competition.
The Corporation of Brown University recently welcomed five new members to its Board of Trustees. Among the newly elected members was Eldridge H. Gilbert III, who graduated with his Rice MBA in 2010.
Executive Director of Recruiting and Admissions Coni Zingarelli gives ClearAdmit the inside scoop on the Rice MBA application process. She dives into how interviews are conducted, what happens between hitting "submit" and getting an admissions decision, and which Rice courses are popular.
A recent study co-authored by Rice Business Professor Jing Zhou found that offering workers a choice of what type of reward they would like for offering good suggestions increased the volume of submissions and their creativity too.