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Rice Business announced the launch of a new Early Career Track within its MBA@Rice Online MBA program.
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Sameera Bhamidipati credits the sheer range of her Rice MBA with making her fluent in a new professional language. “The academic rigor and the breadth of the Rice MBA helped me, as a career switcher, to become proficient in business language.”
22 Jun
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School Updates
Rice Business has partnered with Service to School (S2S), a national nonprofit that helps veterans and service members access higher education, adding a new admissions and outreach partner to the school’s growing ecosystem of support for military-affiliated students.
11 Jun
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Rice University’s Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) is partnering with DiverseCiti Houston to celebrate the influence and impact that 50 years of hip-hop has made on the world of business and entrepreneurship. The Go! ENTREPRENEUR Experience P.O.M - P.O.M Lifestyle Tour featuring New York hip-hop entrepreneur and record executive Damon Dash kicks off Sept. 23 in the Shell Auditorium of McNair Hall.
“Rising in the rankings for networking and diversity shows how Rice’s faculty and staff are dedicated to creating an entire environment and ecosystem that benefits our students, not just what happens inside the classroom,” Rice Business Dean Peter Rodriguez said. “I am especially proud of these metrics that highlight Rice’s ability to bring people together.”
Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business jumped ten spots to No. 19 on Bloomberg Businessweek’s full-time MBA ranking for 2023-24. The ranking places the Rice Business program as the top in Texas and among the nation’s most distinguished, including those at universities such as Yale, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Bloomberg Businessweek has ranked the Rice Business full-time MBA program No. 19 — rising ten spots from last year.
Rice Business has the wonderful tradition of “Partio”, short for Party on the Patio, every Thursday evening. Each partio has a theme, and we celebrate a diverse range of holidays and nationalities. It’s a way for students and faculty to connect outside of the classroom in a fun and social setting.
Rice University today introduced the Rice Biotech Launch Pad, a Houston-based accelerator focused on expediting the translation of the university’s health and medical technology discoveries into cures. Yael Hochberg, head of the Rice Entrepreneurship Initiative and the Ralph S. O'Connor Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, is on the accelerator’s founding advisory council.
A new initiative from Rice University is launching with an ambitious goal — to take biotech innovations from concept to clinical trials in five years or less. The founding advisory council includes Rice Business professor Yael Hochberg.
Vikas Mittal, the J. Hugh Liedtke Professor of Marketing at Rice Business, writes an opinion piece for the Houston Chronicle about the administrative requirements that can weigh down teachers and principals.
Can artificial intelligence (AI) select job candidates as well — or better — than traditional methods? A new, four-year study from the National Science Foundation seeks to find out. Fred Oswald, the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences and a Rice Business professor, is a co-principal investigator of the study.
Rice Business professor Michelle “Mikki” Hebl was awarded the Advancing Women in Leadership award by the diversity, equity and inclusion division of the Academy of Management, acknowledging her contributions to education to help the development of women in leadership.
