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For 29 years, NFL executive Tony Wyllie, an MBA graduate from Rice, has helped sports organizations and their athletes with branding and communications, including nearly a decade as a senior vice president of communications for the Washington Redskins. Now, Wyllie, 51, is heading into his next chapter as the regional president and managing director for Special Olympics North America.

The company, HopSkipDrive of Los Angeles, hires vetted caregivers to drive children 6 and older at the click of an app. HopSkipDrive and similar services, such as VanGo, which also operates in Houston, are part of a societal shift of paying for services that in the past may have been done by neighbors, friends or family, said Utpal Dholakia, a marketing professor at Rice University.

In a recent study, Rice Business professor Shiva Sivaramakrishnan found that board members actually need incentives — both short- and long-term — to act in stakeholders' best interests.

Turbines to run liquefied natural gas plants in the Arctic Circle. Lighter and easier-to-assemble equipment to extract oil and natural gas thousands of feet below the ocean’s surface. Drones to detect methane leaks from oil wells and pipelines. Cleaner power to run hydraulic fracturing operations and lower greenhouse emissions.

At Wharton, MBA apps fell by 5.4%. Thus far, only two top 25 schools have reported slight increases: Chicago Booth, where applications rose 3.4%, and Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Management, which experienced a 6.5% rise.

When it comes to investing, conservatives may have a built-in advantage, according to a study by business scholars at Rice University, the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill, the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), the University of Bath and Southern Methodist University (SMU).