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Congratulations to Marissa Minter and Alan Vu, recognized by Poets & Quants among the 2026 Best and Brightest Online MBAs.
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A Houston venture capital analysis co-authored by Rice Business Executive MBA candidate Stephanie Schmidt highlights the city's growing innovation ecosystem, arguing that stronger startup formation is key to building on recent successes like Fervo Energy's IPO.
21 Jul
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Rice University names its new $54.5 million business building after donors Asha and Farid Virani, the undergraduate business school's namesakes.
21 Jul
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When the final pitches wrapped and the judges cast their votes, one team rose to the top of this year’s Veterans Business Battle: IntuBlade. Their win capped a competitive two-day event at Rice Business that brought together veteran entrepreneurs from across the country.
Kyle Zarosky ’25 shares why he chose Rice Business as his next step after serving in the United States Marine Corps
BRCĒ is a material-tech startup replacing failure-prone textiles with polymer composites engineered for strength, fire resistance and intrinsic stability. The recent “Shark Tank” participant won over judges during the Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) and walked away with 11 prizes totaling $611,500.
U.S. News & World Report's newest rankings for graduate programs are out, with Rice and the University of Houston taking the lead for the most local schools and programs on the lists.
Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business continues to be recognized among the nation’s top graduate business programs in the latest rankings released by U.S. News & World Report.
Nine Houston-area universities are earning new national acclaim in a just-released report of the best graduate schools in the U.S. for 2026.
Congratulations to Kensington Zwerner of the Virani Undergraduate School of Business, recognized by Poets & Quants as a Best and Brightest Undergraduate Business Major.
Research from Rice Business professor Alessandro Piazza shows that in startup accelerator programs, gender diversity alone doesn't attract investors — what matters more is that founder and mentor teams match in gender composition.
Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business has been ranked among the world’s leading online MBA programs in the Financial Times Global Online MBA Rankings, placing No. 13 globally (tied with the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University) and No. 6 in the United States.
Congratulations to Lauren Jackson '25 and the business she co-founded, SubSpark, for being selected as one of Poets&Quants' Most Disruptive MBA Startups 2025.
