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Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business MBA programs have been ranked among the top five in the country in The Princeton Review’s 2025 Best Business Schools rankings.
6 Aug
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Rice Business MBA programs are ranked among the top five in The Princeton Review’s Best Business Schools rankings for 2025. The school is No. 3 in the nation for Best MBA Program for Finance, up two spots from last year, and No. 5 for Best Online MBA.
24 Jul
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Rice Business will host the fifth annual and first virtual Diversity and Inclusion Conference Oct. 30. With racial equity and social justice at the forefront of public discourse, this year’s conference provides a forum to discuss how these issues impact the workplace.
"My biggest accomplishment so far with Women Offshore is operating a mentoring program that has grown from just a few mentors and mentees to 150 participants. This year, we expanded the capacity to 500 spots."
Congratulations to Cyndie Fredrick, Rice MBA '06 and Senior Vice President and General Manager for Merichem Co, who was awarded a Women Who Mean Business Award by Houston Business Journal for her leadership in energy.
Peter Rodriguez, dean of the Jones Graduate School of Business, called the recent increase in layoffs “evidence that we didn’t take the short route out of the recession. We’re going to be here for a little while."
Take a look at some of the most promising MBAs from the Class of 2022 at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business.
Returning to work after having a baby can be pretty stressful. Abbey Donnell, founder and CEO of Work and Mother and Rice MBA '17, lays out barriers for new moms and how her company might be a solution on this new podcast episode.
Sqirl was internet famous for its house-made jams. Then a photo of mold made them internet infamous. Professor Anastasiya Zavyalova talked to Lauren Ober on the Spectacular Failures podcast about the best way to get out of this kind of reputational jam.
"I applied at a few other universities but was sold when I came to campus for my interview. It was a close-knit, diverse, and unique school in a great city. I felt like I belonged there the moment I walked through the doors."
With its industry reeling, the Fort Worth–based airline giant is quietly betting that diminished competition will keep passengers coming. Anastasiya Zavyalova, associate professor of strategic management, weighs in.
With Election Day just over a month away, Rice University’s School of Social Sciences and Department of Political Science are hosting a virtual discussion about the presidential, congressional, state and local contests. The panel includes former Houston Mayor Annise Parker ’78, who previously served as a professor in the practice at Rice Business.
