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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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Vikas Mittal, a business professor and oil field service company expert at Rice University, is hopeful but skeptical about the ability of the clean energy initiatives to successfully deliver profits. The professor believes there might be some “herd mentality” psychology at play.
Being from Venezuela, at a young age, I learned the value of energy and oil in society. More specifically, I learned the importance of the good management of oil and natural resources. Rice is a globally-ranked university and, in my point of view, it has the strongest energy and finance program.
As Hurricane Laura nears the Texas coast, Rice University has a number of experts that can discuss a wide variety of storm-related topics.
The Houston Business Journal will once again honor an exceptional group of business and community leaders in the 40 Under 40 Class of 2020. Among the honorees are Rice Business alumni Chris Bentley and Daran Gaus.
William “Bill” Arnold, a popular professor in the practice of energy management at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, died Aug. 5 after a battle with gallbladder cancer. He was 75.
Students often dramatically underestimate how long they will spend looking for the next professional opportunity after graduation, says George Andrews, associate dean of degree programs at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business in Texas. Balancing a career search with a job, study and family obligations is a “Sisyphean task”, he adds.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, no other social phenomenon has been as widely written about, discussed, and argued over as cancel culture. Everyone uses their own definition, contradicting others, sowing confusion, arousing anger, scorn, and moral outrage, and stifling debate. Many psychology researchers view cancel culture as synonymous with social media activism, but this doesn't fully explain the psychology behind it says Professor Utpal Dholakia.
Target Retirement Funds are touted as a simplified investment option for people saving money for their golden years, but Rice University researchers have discovered retirees can be shortchanged by a curious behavioral phenomenon known as “zero bias.”
Named one of the Best & Brightest by Poets & Quants, Ruy Lozano, assistant fire chief for the Houston Fire Department, used data analytics to identify future needs within his operation. “I conducted a study on the Houston Fire Department apparatus spatial allocations with the Rice Data Science lab that not only won the Rice Data Science competition but got presented to the City of Houston’s Homeland Security Public Safety Session,” Lozano writes.
All Rice University's graduate business programs are now certified as STEM, making Rice Jones the last top-25 U.S. B-school to have a STEM pathway.