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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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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.
Every business school in the top 25 (and many more outside of it) saw its foreign student numbers rise from 2020 — and most are up big.. Rice Business leaped more than 18 points to 39% international enrollment from 2020 to 2021.