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“Research shows that some behaviors tend to align with and reinforce our gender-identity – and that includes Valentine’s Day gift-giving behavior,” said Constance Porter, a professor of marketing in the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. “It is well-known that men have assumed the societal role of taking on more of the gift-giving burden on Valentine’s Day. They spend more, and are more willing to go into debt to do it. 

This week's question about applying to an MBA program comes from an anonymous BusinessBecause reader. Their question is answered by Marta Andaluz, who has worked in the admissions team at The Lisbon MBA for over 10 years. Next week, George Andrews, associate dean of degree programs at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business, will be here to answer your Applicant Question of the Week.

Members of the C-suite can earn higher salaries and potentially obtain seats on their organizations' corporate boards by parroting their CEO's language style, according to a May 2018 study cited by Phys.org. For the study, researchers at the Houston-based Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business and the University of Miami Business School in Coral Gables, Fla., analyzed more than 2,300 companies' conference calls with investors and security analysts between 2002 and 2013.

Selectivity. More often than not it’s the first thing a potential business school applicant looks at when choosing where to apply. What percentage of applicants are admitted to a school? In one number, one data point, comes an answer to the essential question: What are my chances of getting in?