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Rice University ranks first in Texas for 10-year return on investment, with alumni seeing roughly $334,000 in gains. Its strong earnings outcomes keep Rice at the top of both short and long-term ROI comparisons statewide.
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Rice Business professor Mijeong Kwon finds that viewing passion for work as a moral virtue can harm employees and teams, leading to guilt, burnout and biased treatment of colleagues who are seen as less passionate.
26 Nov
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In The Media
Rice Business professor Mijeong Kwon argues that moralizing a love of work can undermine workplace well-being. Her research shows that treating intrinsic motivation as a virtue fuels guilt, burnout and biased judgments that disrupt team dynamics.
25 Nov
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What’s the cheapest, quickest way to reduce climate change without roiling the economy? In the United States, it may be by reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.
Nearly all emissions can be stopped with new components or regulations that prohibit routine flaring, says Jim Krane, fellow for energy studies at the Baker Institute for Public Policy and a lecturer at Rice Business
Houston entrepreneurs, take note. Rice University and the University of Houston again are at the top of their class among the country’s best entrepreneurship programs.
Rice Business received top billing on two prominent lists rating academic excellence that were announced today: Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine’s entrepreneurship ranking (No. 1) and Poets and Quants’ online MBA ranking (No. 5).
Two Houston universities are celebrating top spots on the 17th annual Top Schools for Entrepreneurship Studies lists released by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.
Ben Lansford, accounting professor and director of the Master of Accounting program, discusses the reason accounting is a major in decline at schools across the country — and why it’s worth the time.
Rice Business has released its first annual report on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The report highlights internal efforts to become a more welcoming and accepting community, a major priority for Peter Rodriguez, dean of the Jones Graduate School of Business.
Rice Business professors Kevin Crotty and Kerry Back, and Ph.D. student Seyed Mohammad Kazempour, recently evaluated whether new predictors based on option prices really are a valuable forecasting tool in their paper, “Validity, Tightness, and Forecasting Power of Risk Premium Bounds.”
The largest crowd in the history of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) Conference gathered last week in Las Vegas to celebrate creativity and innovation in university-based entrepreneurship education. The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship is the global headquarters for the GCEC.
Rice Business professor Jing Zhou discusses her research in organizational behavior and the factors that facilitate or inhibit creativity and innovation.
