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"Since my career in the Army involved healthcare, I was drawn to Rice Business because of the number of classes focused on the healthcare industry. These classes give me the opportunity to align my Army experience with the business side of healthcare."
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A study reveals that 13% of scientific articles show signs of AI, raising a debate about the integrity of research. Rice Business professor Kathleen Perley says that AI can play a decisive role in democratizing access to academic research, especially for non-English-speaking researchers or those suffering from learning disabilities.
10 Jul
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"Rice was the only school I seriously considered. As a Houstonian, I wanted to root myself locally while still learning from one of the best programs in the country. Rice’s reputation, combined with its values and community, made it the clear choice."
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It’s no exaggeration to say that Indian and Chinese students are essential to both the academic and financial health of universities in the United States. The same is true of graduate business education. Rice Business has the third highest percentage of Indian students in the U.S. at 50%.
Nine energy startups from across the country were recognized as the most promising in a pitch competition during the Offshore Technology Conference earlier this month. The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship staged its annual pitch competition at the Ion in Midtown.
On May 10, Craig Taylor, founder and CEO of Houston-based Iapetus Holdings, was named as one of the Entrepreneur Of The Year 2022 finalists in the program’s Central South region. Meanwhile, Taylor last month was named 2022 Veteran Entrepreneur of the Year by the Rice Business Veterans Association at Rice Business.
This week, 39 energy startup companies from all over the world pitched in Houston — and nine were recognized as being the most promising of the batch. The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship returned its Offshore Technology Conference pitch event to its in-person capacity.
The Rice Business Veterans Association at Rice Business elected Craig Taylor as the recipient of the 2022 Veteran Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Taylor is the founder and CEO of Iapetus Holdings LLC.
Takeya Green '22 made the cut of Poets & Quants 2022 Best and Brightest MBA students. " I chose Rice because of its location. Houston is a beautiful, diverse, up-and-coming city that doesn’t carry a large price tag."
Rice Business is one of the 10 smallest prestige MBA programs in the U.S. Our students form impactful connections with most of their peers and professors and that's why Princeton Review ranks our classroom experience No. 5 in the U.S.
In trying to appear neutral on some current hot-button issues, experts say, Houston-based Exxon Mobil has done the opposite. “It's hard to think of any good reason that they (Exxon Mobil) would backtrack on this issue,” said Rice Business associate professor Doug Schuler.
Rice University’s Class of 2024 has been the first to experience the school’s new undergraduate business major, which launched this past fall. And it seems like most students are enjoying what the new business major has to offer.
The annual Rice Business Plan Competition, the largest such university-based competition in the world, awarded more than $2 million in prizes in early April. Lidrotec, a student startup that aims to increase production in the semiconductor industry, took home the grand prize at the competition.