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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.
9 Mar
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The company, HopSkipDrive of Los Angeles, hires vetted caregivers to drive children 6 and older at the click of an app. HopSkipDrive and similar services, such as VanGo, which also operates in Houston, are part of a societal shift of paying for services that in the past may have been done by neighbors, friends or family, said Utpal Dholakia, a marketing professor at Rice University.
In a recent study, Rice Business professor Shiva Sivaramakrishnan found that board members actually need incentives — both short- and long-term — to act in stakeholders' best interests.
At Wharton, MBA apps fell by 5.4%. Thus far, only two top 25 schools have reported slight increases: Chicago Booth, where applications rose 3.4%, and Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Management, which experienced a 6.5% rise.
Turbines to run liquefied natural gas plants in the Arctic Circle. Lighter and easier-to-assemble equipment to extract oil and natural gas thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface. Drones to detect methane leaks from oil wells and pipelines. Cleaner power to run hydraulic fracturing operations and lower greenhouse emissions.
When it comes to investing, conservatives may have a built-in advantage, according to a study by business scholars at Rice University, the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), the University of Bath and Southern Methodist University (SMU).
When it comes to investing, conservatives may have a built-in advantage, according to a study by business scholars at Rice University, the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), the University of Bath and Southern Methodist University (SMU). A central tenet of long-term investing is to hold riskier investments such as stocks over holding cash or bonds, which are considered less risky.
The recent Democratic debates confirmed that universal access to health care insurance is a core issue for the 2020 election, although it’s difficult keeping up with all the proposals. "Medicare for All" gets the most press, but its cost may be prohibitive, and has no chance of surviving the health care industry lobbying in Congress.
If you’re considering an MBA, research supports that an MBA degree is a valuable investment, said Dean Peter Rodriguez, Jones Graduate School of Business, Rice University. He added that employers demand MBA talent, and alumni of MBA programs report an impressive career trajectory since graduation.
The ice cream maker’s response to these tampering incidents can either make or break the brand’s reputation. “I cannot imagine how these (ice cream licking) videos would not affect buying decisions and consumer confidence during the middle of ice cream season,” Utpal Dholakia, a professor of business and marketing at Rice University, recently told Houston Chronicle.
