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Rice Business offers several Executive Education courses that give aspiring leaders a jumpstart on their skills, including Leader as Coach, The Management Incubator and The Leadership Accelerator: a four-day, on-campus class geared towards more senior executives.
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The Jones Graduate School of Business is a power player in the MBA ranks, finishing 18th in Poets&Quants’ composite ranking of the top 100 U.S. programs and sixth in our ranking of the best online MBAs. As of fall 2021, Rice Jones also offers an undergraduate business major. Its first class will graduate this May.
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New research from Rice Business assistant professor Minjae Kim and MIT Sloan finds that American voters hold opposing politicians to strict standards of factuality but support their favorite politicians as long as their statements express a “deeper truth” they support.
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The Conversation interviewed Eleanor Putnam-Farr, assistant professor of marketing and co-author of “Forgot Your Bottle or Bag Again? How Well-Placed Reminder Cues Can Help Consumers Build Sustainable Habits,” about the challenges of changing people’s behavior – even when their intentions are good.
Rice Business professor Mikki Hebl co-authors this writeup for Psychology Today about Hollywood dynamics surrounding recent Oscar nominations excluding the film's female director and lead actress.
Brad Burke has been named associate vice president for industry and new ventures by Rice’s Office of Innovation. According to Burke, this new role serves as an alliance between the Brown School of Engineering, Wiess School of Natural Sciences, Jones Graduate School of Business and the Office of Research.
Organizational leaders may benefit from operating more like a jazz ensemble during crises in order to utilize their resources in unconventional ways, according to new research from Rice Business professor Scott Sonenshein.
International students are coming to America to attend undergraduate and graduate programs in ever-greater numbers. Rice Business reported higher in 2023 than in previous years.
In 2023, the PhD Excellence Initiative attained an important milestone: former fellow Brandy Edmondson became the first to earn her PhD, graduating from the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, and is now a postdoctoral fellow at Rice Business.
Rice Business is included in this list of five U.S. universities that host fully funded Ph.D. programs. Upon admission, students receive complete financial assistance, preparing them for instructional roles in areas such as accounting, finance, organizational behavior, and strategic management.
What questions can you expect in your MBA interview? Each year, Clear Admit calls for applicants to submit interview reports, revealing school-specific questions.
Keep an eye on these business schools in 2024, as they range from significant investments to innovative programming, with Rice Business being among them.
How can leaders inspire agility during a crisis? Learn three critical leadership strategies that helped two prominent symphonies transform during the pandemic.