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Peter Rodriguez, dean of Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business, said the annual festival has "a significant impact on the standing of the city and on the perception of Austin as a regional hub of technology and creativity," benefits that will be difficult to reproduce if the event can't continue. "Anytime you lose a brand, that's costly," Rodriguez said. "That would be a big loss for Austin and for Texas."
The past two years have been a rollercoaster for real estate.
As omicron recedes, Rice shifts its strategy and eases campus restrictions.
The likelihood of contagion is even higher when the person behaving badly is in a position of power, says Marlon Mooijman, a professor of organizational behavior at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business. “Some research has shown that abusive practices (such as bosses humiliating others and using degrading language) tend to trickle down in organizations.,” Mooijman says.
Lizette Melendez grew up in El Paso, one of the poorest cities in Texas, and was the first in her family to go to university. Now she is part of the first cohort in the MBA @ Rice, launched by Houston’s Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University in 2018 on the 2U online learning platform.
How Rice transformed an aging Sears building to create an innovation hub that could help make Houston the next Silicon Valley.
A letter from Peter Rodriguez, Dean of Rice Business
The impact of accelerators remains open to debate, according to research co-authored by Yael Hochberg, Rice University’s Ralph S. O’Connor Professor in Entrepreneurship. Some researchers have found accelerators help startups grow, attract venture capital and add a spark to the innovation ecosystem. Other researchers, however, found the effects on a young company’s performance are muted or even negative.