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Rice Business reveals how having a “promotion focus” can mean the difference between fostering innovation and letting it slip by.
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On April 14, Rice made history by hosting its inaugural Rice Day at the Capitol. More than 50 students, faculty and staff traveled to Austin for a full day of advocacy, education and celebration. The event served as a showcase of the university’s statewide impact in areas ranging from innovation to the arts and sciences.
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A Houston-area university will soon offer a new hybrid Master of Business Administration program, allowing for a flexible learning style. Beginning over the summer, the program will allow working professionals to pursue the master’s degree with a flexible schedule.
Rice University is making it easier to get an MBA. The Houston university has launched a new hybrid program. The program "preserves the benefits of the in-person educational experience while leveraging the flexibility offered by online learning through live Zoom sessions and asynchronous course content."
For working professionals who want to pursue a Master of Business Administration degree with a flexible schedule, the new Hybrid MBA program at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business opens this summer.
Rice Business professor Daan van Knippenberg and colleagues performed a meta-analysis and found that strategic dissent, often thought to provide positive outcomes to their organizations, actually does the opposite.
When Charles Hurwitz, CEO and President of Houston-based MAXXAM, Inc. addressed a “thought leadership” discussion at Rice Business recently, you can be assured of one thing. Everyone listened.
The vast majority of parents believe social media is a major distraction for students, according to a new nationwide study conducted by Vikas Mittal, a professor of marketing at Rice Business. The online study surveyed a nationally representative sample of more than 10,000 parents of K-12 students.
Want to get better at a task? It may be possible to shop — or imagine — your way to success. This Rice Business Wisdom article was based on research from Jaeyeon (Jae) Chung, an assistant professor of marketing at Rice Business.
‘Career portfolioing’ is a trend where people assemble different sources of income, such as side gigs, to give them a measure of independence from employers who provide little job security. Rice Business professor Scott Sonenshein discusses the trend for The Conversation.
Rice Business professor Vikas Mittal weighs in with this opinion piece featured in The Hill. "Research proves that higher customer satisfaction increases customer retention and referrals, pricing power, sales, margins, cash flow and stock price."
Minjae Kim, assistant professor of management in organizational behavior at Rice Business, was ranked one of 2022’s 50 best undergraduate business professors by Poets and Quants.
