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Rice Business offers several Executive Education courses that give aspiring leaders a jumpstart on their skills, including Leader as Coach, The Management Incubator and The Leadership Accelerator: a four-day, on-campus class geared towards more senior executives.
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The Jones Graduate School of Business is a power player in the MBA ranks, finishing 18th in Poets&Quants’ composite ranking of the top 100 U.S. programs and sixth in our ranking of the best online MBAs. As of fall 2021, Rice Jones also offers an undergraduate business major. Its first class will graduate this May.
22 Apr
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New research from Rice Business assistant professor Minjae Kim and MIT Sloan finds that American voters hold opposing politicians to strict standards of factuality but support their favorite politicians as long as their statements express a “deeper truth” they support.
16 Apr
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Rice University is among the schools that say they are tweaking their essay questions or adding new ones in light of the recent Supreme Court ruling.
Poets & Quants ranked the most expensive MBA from leading business schools in the United States and Europe. Although Rice Business is mentioned, we didn't rank in the top 25 in terms of expense.
If you've scrolled Instagram in the past week, you've probably seen notices that some of your friends have joined Threads, the social media-verse's buzziest new hangout spot. Chris Ferris, Rice Business alum and vice president of digital strategy at Pierpont Communications, weighs in.
New certificate programs in healthcare management and human resources management will be led by Rice Business professors Edward Kroger and Jeff Frey, respectively.
‘Career portfolioing’ is a trend where people assemble different sources of income, such as side gigs, to give them a measure of independence from employers who provide little job security. Rice Business professor Scott Sonenshein discusses the trend for The Conversation.
This month, the online MBA program at Rice Business celebrates five years since matriculating its first cohort of students. The online MBA has become the fastest growing program at the business school since its launch in 2018.
Business schools around the world are making a concerted effort to put their sustainability studies into practice on their own campuses. Rice Business ranks at number 17 in the U.S. on the Financial Times 2023 Carbon Footprint ranking.
Connie Porter, Senior Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion and Associate Clinical Professor of Marketing, weighs in on the recent U.S. Supreme Court's ruling to strike down affirmative action in college admissions.
