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US News MBA ranks Rice Business among top 20 tied at 17th for part-time programs

Most students from Poland travel to study in cities with large Polish populations, such as Chicago, New York and Los Angeles, Rusiecki said. Having the scholarship opportunity available at the Bush School will add value for students looking at Texas as an option, he said. Representatives from the largest oil refinery in Poland paid tribute to George H.W. Bush on Monday during a visit to Texas A&M University. The three members of Grupa LOTOS were joined Monday by Mazurkiewicz, Rusiecki and Bill Arnold, a professor in the practice of energy management from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business.

Psychologist and Rice University professor Erik Dane finds that the more expertise and experience people gain, the more entrenched they become in a particular way of viewing the world. Compared to novices, experts are overconfident in their ability to understand problems outside their expertise, leading them to develop worse solutions.

A team of business students from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has been selected as one of 42 teams from some of the world’s top universities who will compete for more than $1.5 million in prizes at the Rice Business Plan Competition April 4-6.

Kroger first launched its driverless delivery vehicles last summer in Scottsdale, Arizona. Now, Houston will be the program’s second location. Utpal Dholakia, a marketing professor at Rice University’s business school, said whether or not the program is practical, it’s valuable from a marketing perspective. “This gives some kind of ammunition to fight really strong competitors in a really strong market,” Dholakia said. “It makes sense that you would want to pick an area where you can make a big splash.”

Nearly a quarter of a million people in the Houston area lack access to healthy food. A new report from Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research says collaboration between hunger-fighting organizations is necessary to address the problem. “Challenges of Social Sector Systemic Collaborations: What’s Cookin’ in Houston’s Food Insecurity Space?” is authored by Doug Schuler, a Kinder Fellow and associate professor of business and public policy at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, and Balaji Koka, an associate professor of strategic management at the Jones School, examines the nature of collaborations between nonprofit, for-profit and governmental organizations working on food insecurity and food deserts in Houston.

Rice University tied at No. 26 for its full-time MBA and tied at No. 17 for its part-time MBA. It also tied at No. 17 for its entrepreneurship specialty.

Davenport University announced today that it has named Rachel Render as its new executive vice president of alumni and development. For the last four years, Render served as a senior director within the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder, working with alumni and donors in New York City and Chicago. Prior to joining the University of Colorado Boulder, she was with the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, where she led the school to the successful completion of the $65 million Rice Centennial Campaign.

Houston TV viewers will soon say goodbye to Christine Dobbyn, although it's not farewell. "I love my job but was feeling the need for a new challenge," the ABC 13 reporter told Chron.com. Dobbyn is currently getting a Master of Business Administration from the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. She has been juggling school and work since the beginning of the school year.

Dobbyn, who is currently getting a Master of Business Administration from the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, has been juggling school and work since the beginning of the school year.