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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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Life science investors, leaders and innovators gathered at the Jones Graduate School of Business to discuss Houston’s role in the future of health care, medical technology innovation and life science commercialization during the 10th annual Texas Life Science Forum.
Shell, BP & ExxonMobil are pulling out of Russia even though it means steep financial hits for them. Rice Business Professor Yan Anthea Zhang explores how Western energy companies are recalculating the cost of doing business in Russia for The Conversation.
The 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC), hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jones Graduate School of Business, will be back in person and on campus April 7-9.
The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and Rice Business have announced the 42 student teams that will compete in the 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition, which returns to an in-person format on the Rice University campus in April.
Rice MBA Ope Amosu recently opened his fast-casual restaurant ChòpnBlọk in Post Houston, the renovated Barbara Jordon Post Office downtown.
“For an analyst or investor, it’s really easy to look at a company’s net income,” said Leila Peyravan, an assistant professor at Rice Business. "But there are a couple of issues with that.” One issue is that net income includes line items that are highly dependent on management’s financing and accounting decisions — but are unrelated to a company’s core business operations.
“Fortune 100s and 500s build and better one another and it’s great for people to associate us in Houston with great companies,” said Rice Business dean Peter Rodriguez.
A new wall painting by Kate Shepherd has joined the Rice University's permanent collection of public art. “Tricycle Red, Pelican Gray etc., partial octagons” was installed over a week in December in the lobby of McNair Hall at the Jones Graduate School of Business.
If the social cost of carbon were a tax paid by consumers, gas would cost 50 cents more per gallon--but it has no direct effect on the price of gas. Instead, it influences government policy & investments, write Rice Business lecturer Jim Krane & Baker Institute fellow Mark Finley.
Most schools in the Poets&Quants top 25 reported stable or growing salaries, and every one of the 23 schools for which data is available reported jumps — sometimes dramatic — in both job offers and acceptances. Rice Business had the biggest salary increase, a more-than-6% jump to $131,384.
