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Rice University’s Virani Undergraduate School of Business is introducing the Moody Business Scholars Program, a highly selective, cohort-based undergraduate experience designed to prepare high-achieving business students for careers in competitive industries.
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The 26th annual Women in Leadership Conference (WILC) welcomed hundreds of women to Rice Business’ McNair Hall for a day of networking, learning and inspiration for climbing the ladder in their careers. This year’s theme was “Pass the Torch: Together, We Will Carry the Flame.”
11 Mar
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Research from Rice Business professors John Barry, Bruce Carlin, and Alan Crane shows how firms use hurdle rates differently in practice than finance theory predicts.
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The University of Houston captured the #1 spot on the undergraduate entrepreneurship studies ranking list, up from the #2 last year. Rice University finished #1 on the graduate list, up from #3 last year. In all, 59 institutions made one or both of the lists.
Two Houston universities — Rice University and the University of Houston — have been ranked as having the best graduate entrepreneurship program and the best undergraduate entrepreneurship program in the country, respectively.
Houston is the best city for studying entrepreneurship in 2020, according to a report released Tuesday by the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. The University of Houston is the best undergraduate school for entrepreneurship studies in North America, and Rice University is the best graduate school.
“Increasingly what we’ve seen is that individuals working for organizations, especially organizations with big platforms, whether they be sports teams are probably the most prominent example, (…) are increasingly willing to speak their minds,” Scott Sonenshein, management professor at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, told News 88.7.
“I was willing to support this action as long as, on the condition, that it was accompanied with a clear articulation that for the time being the setting of monetary policy was, quote unquote, ‘appropriate,’” Kaplan told reporters after a talk at an energy conference run by Rice University’s Rice School of Business students.
Marie Kondo has another book in the works: “Joy at Work: Organizing Your Professional Life” to hit shelves April 7th, 2020. Working with organizational psychologist Scott Sonenshein, Kondo wrote a book to help you drain your life from redundant meetings, mounds of disorganized paperwork, a never-ending inbox and unnecessary tasks.
MBAs were behind some of this decade's most lucrative startups, including Rice Business alum Vinay Acharya '19. The Class of 2019 has more in the works. Check out this year's most promising MBA startups.
In the debut of an inaugural ranking, Rice Business claims the #11 spot among the world's best entrepreneurship programs.
“If there is not a pipeline of diverse applicants getting their professional degrees, there are simply fewer diverse people to choose from,” says Mikki Hebl, a professor of management and psychology at Rice University in Houston.
Rice’s Cohen House was the site of a celebratory occasion Oct. 4 as the Jones Graduate School of Business community gathered for the Rice Business Alumni Awards, which annually recognize alumni in six categories for outstanding achievements in their professional fields and exemplary leadership.
