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"Traditionally you might have seen Chevron as the loser in this case. But I don't think so at all. I think it really burnishes their reputation, and they've got a war chest if they see some other assets," Rice University professor of energy management Bill Arnold said on the outcome of the competition between Occidental Petroleum and Chevron Corp. for rival oil and gas producer Anadarko Petroleum Corp. Chevron's shares climbed 3.1% the day it walked away from the deal.

Two decades ago, two oilfield services rivals merged to create a company with big ambitions. Rice University Business Professor Vikas Mittal said oilfield service companies cannot only rely on higher oil prices alone. Based on past studies and industry surveys, Mittal said oilfield service companies would see a better return on their investments by improving customer service and listening to their needs, rather than spending money developing new technology and products. Smaller service companies, he said, need to merge, lower their costs and improve customer service to compete with larger ones.

Escalating trade tensions with China could jeopardize or delay proposed liquefied natural gas projects on the Gulf Coast by raising construction costs in the United States and prices in China, hurting the emerging industry's competitiveness in one of the world's biggest energy markets, analysts and economists say. The trade war adds uncertainty into long-term planning for energy projects, said Peter Rodriguez, dean of the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University.

So how do people make sense of the epiphanies when they experience them? In a set of unprecedented studies, Rice Business professor Erik Dane set out to find answers, first examining people who'd experienced general epiphanies, then analyzing a set of accounts of work- and career-related epiphanies themselves.

Do you feel like you're able to be fully yourself at work? “In our research, we’ve talked to a lot of employees who feel like they’re concealing a ‘stigma,’ and in many of those cases we’ve seen that there’s a real cost to hiding,” says Mikki Hebl, PhD, a management professor and the Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Chair of psychology at Rice University.

Yael Hochberg, Head of Entrepreneurship Initiative, Rice University is on the The 2019 CNBC Disruptor 50 Advisory Council

Rice University’s Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business plans to launch its first open enrollment off-campus program in The Woodlands this fall, responding to demand for its executive education programs for those in business and leadership roles. Executive education consists of non-degree programs for working professionals in management or executive roles, said Zoran Perunovic, director of executive education at Rice Business School.

William Arnold, a professor in the practice of energy management at Rice University’s graduate school of business, said if Chevron acquires the company it could signal an opportunity for a new stage in the area’s evolution as an energy employer.

Houston billionaire Tilman Fertitta has raised $316.25 million through a blank-check company for a future business deal.

To provide the online MBA program, UC-Davis is partnering with 2U Inc., an education technology company. Among 2U’s partners are the Harvard business analytics program, Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, and the data science program at Southern Methodist University.