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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.
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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.
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Poets&Quants asks its Best & Brightest MBAs and MBAs To Watch to share the faculty member who made the biggest impact on their business school experience. Rice Business professors John Wisneski and Eleanor Putnam-Farr have both been named in this year's list.
The state has yet to return to its pre-pandemic unemployment rate of about 3.5%, even as it leads the country in new jobs created. Rice Business dean Peter Rodriguez weighs in: “You can see the unemployment rate go down, but it will go down because of frustrated workers exiting the labor force and even exiting the state.”
Ten Houstonians are in the hot seat for deciding the best companies and individuals in Houston's innovation ecosystem, including Aziz Gilani, adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at Rice Business.
Four Rice students took the top prize and $2,000 in cash at the University of Houston’s Undergraduate Commodity Competition Sept. 9. The event allows undergraduate students from across the nation to demonstrate their proficiency in commodity knowledge and investment research and present to a panel of judges from top firms in Houston.
Deciding to get your MBA is a major decision. Rice Business ranks highly on this list of business schools with the best Full-time MBA median starting salary to total out-of-state tuition from the Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business.
Two new rankings have put the University of Houston and Rice University in the academic limelight. Rice Business climbed 10 spots — to No. 19 — in Bloomberg Businessweek’s 2023-24 ranking of full-time MBA programs. Rice holds the No. 1 spot among Texas programs.
Rice University’s Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning (CERCL) is partnering with DiverseCiti Houston to celebrate the influence and impact that 50 years of hip-hop has made on the world of business and entrepreneurship. The Go! ENTREPRENEUR Experience P.O.M - P.O.M Lifestyle Tour featuring New York hip-hop entrepreneur and record executive Damon Dash kicks off Sept. 23 in the Shell Auditorium of McNair Hall.
“Rising in the rankings for networking and diversity shows how Rice’s faculty and staff are dedicated to creating an entire environment and ecosystem that benefits our students, not just what happens inside the classroom,” Rice Business Dean Peter Rodriguez said. “I am especially proud of these metrics that highlight Rice’s ability to bring people together.”
Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business jumped ten spots to No. 19 on Bloomberg Businessweek’s full-time MBA ranking for 2023-24. The ranking places the Rice Business program as the top in Texas and among the nation’s most distinguished, including those at universities such as Yale, Carnegie Mellon, Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Bloomberg Businessweek has ranked the Rice Business full-time MBA program No. 19 — rising ten spots from last year.