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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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Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business has launched a leadership accelerator, a four-day program that teaches executives to become better leaders. “The value of leadership education is to prepare people for a set of responsibilities that they’re generally not prepared for, honestly,” said the course’s instructor, management professor and senior associate dean of executive education at Rice Business Brent Smith.
In the program, UFM students enroll in a 34-hour curriculum that includes 16 credit hours of foundation courses taught in Guatemala and 18 credit hours of coursework delivered by Tulane faculty in Guatemala and Panamá City. As part of the program curriculum, UFM students also participate in an on-campus business module in New Orleans. It is a program thoroughly corrupted by cheating, claims Fergus Hodgson, a New Zealand native who enrolled in the Tulane MFIN in 2017. Hodgson, who has since been admitted to the MBA program at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, tells Poets&Quants that he entered the Tulane-UFM doble titulación as a way to get a degree from a “credible” U.S. school for about half the price while studying in a country he knew well, where he could improve his self-taught Spanish and be among friends.
“I love to educate people,” says Skinner, who is also a business lecturer at Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University in Houston and has three books to his credit, including the respected “Introduction to Decision Analysis.”
Tucked amid the townhouses of Upper Kirby, the plain brick building draws little attention. Its lawn is neat, its stairs swept. Occasionally, hissing erupts inside. But that’s to be expected. All the residents are cats.
Prof. Prashant Kale, Associate Professor of Strategic Management at the Jessie H. Jones School of Business, Rice University and Faculty at FLAME Centre for Executive Education (FCEE) comments on bridging the gap during organizational redesign.
As I have written in earlier blog posts, price is a powerful tool used by marketers to get customers to push the “buy” button. Few marketing methods are as tried and tested as a price promotion, which is an incentive with an expiration date. Most of us have availed of limited-time offers like discount coupons, sales, daily deals, flash sales, etc.
A few of the leaders in the major developments of the profession are Major J. Lee Nicholson, Robert N. Anthony, Ross G. Walker, Charles T. Horngren, Robert S. Kaplan, Eliyahu M. Goldratt, James O. McKinsey, Kenneth A. Merchant and Marc J. Epstein who was, until 2014, a Distinguished Research Professor of Management at Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University in Houston, Texas. They and others have taken the management accounting profession to where it is today.
The program will be held twice on the Rice University campus and once in The Woodlands in 2019.
Peter Rodriguez, dean of Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business, discusses U.S.-China trade and President Trump’s proposed tariffs on Mexican goods on "Balance of Power." "There's such deep integration across the Mexico-US border, and the Canadian border for that matter, I think that's often misunderstood. So, when we're really trading goods, it's not a wholy-produced-Mexican export that's coming across...That cross border trade is really important." - Peter Rodriguez
Pradeep Anand has been helping businesses improve their revenue and margin growth for over 35 years. He is president of Seeta Resources, a marketing and business strategy/execution consulting firm that serves the oil and gas, technology and engineering industries.He has been an adjunct faculty member at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business’ MBA program.