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More than 500 MBA graduates crossed the stage May 9 at the Jones Graduate School of Business MBA commencement ceremony in Tudor Fieldhouse. The ceremony marked the graduation of the 10,000th student from Rice Business.
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School Updates
Rice University conferred more than 250 doctoral degrees during its 112th commencement May 10 at Tudor Fieldhouse. Doctoral candidates along with friends, family and loved ones gathered for the ceremony, which included the awarding of doctoral regalia, congratulatory remarks, cheers and a few moments to reflect on this milestone.
11 May
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In The Media
In this edition of Real Numbers of MBA Admissions, we round up the percentage of students of the Classes of 2024 placed in tech.
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All but three of the leading B-schools in the U.S. saw increases in their international student populations; the other three were even. The average increase was 8.7 percentage points, with the biggest occurring at Rice Business: 19 percentage points, from 20% to 39%.
MBA students from Rice Business won the school’s second straight competition at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation’s MBA Case Competition. This year’s winners- Abhimanyu Bansal, Maya Stine and Nicholas Khater- won a total of $10,000 at the competition, beating 49 other schools from around the globe.
Get to know new members of the Rice Business MBA Class of 2023 in this edition of Clear Admit's Real Humans: MBA Students.
Effective December 8, 2021, Rice Business alumnus Brent Arriaga was appointed Chief Accounting Officer and Corporate Controller of Helix and designated as its principal accounting officer.
Green Room, a startup launched by Sophie Randolph '22, has been named a Poets & Quants Most Disruptive MBA Startup of 2021.
Ruth López Turley, a professor of sociology and director of Rice University's Houston Education Research Consortium, will head the Kinder Institute for Urban Research when current director Bill Fulton steps down on June 30.
Patents are becoming an innovative source of collateral for businesses borrowing money, and there’s a time-critical sweet spot for lenders trying to calculate how much those patents are worth, according to new research co-authored by Yan Anthea Zhang, chair professor of strategy at Rice Business
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has appointed Rice Business Dean Peter Rodriguez to its Houston Branch board of directors for a three-year term beginning January 1, 2022.
During the virtual 2021 MBA Case Competition, three finalist teams, including one from Rice Business, will present their solutions live to a panel of judges.
“More and more people are buying things online,” said Utpal Dholakia, marketing professor at Rice Business. “And that takes a lot out of the glamour, the image of Black Friday as something special.”