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Panel discussion sponsored by Advancial, Lincoln Leadership Advisors and The Village School. 11 a.m.-1 p.m., The Village School, 2005 Gentryside Drive. Zoran Perunovic of Rice University will moderate a panel with Olympic medalist Irene Montrucchio, Marife Alvarez of BP and Katherine Brewer of The Village School. Cost: Free for human resources professionals.
Investment has become global. That’s not news, of course, but the extent of the phenomenon might surprise you: Foreign funds today hold more than eight times more stock in listed companies than they did in 2000.
The documented increase in collisions appears to persist and even increase over time, and that rate has stayed steady through weekdays, weeknights, weekend days and weekend nights, according to John Barrios, assistant professor at Chicago Booth, and Yale V. Hochberg and Hanyi Yi, both of Rice University, in the working paper, The Cost of Convenience: Ridehailing and Traffic Fatalities.
A rare piece of good news for health care emerged from this year’s 86th Texas legislative session: A new law, SB 1264, protects certain insured patients from surprise medical bills. Its very existence shows that collaboration and compromise is not dead in Texas: With the right leadership, good bipartisan work can get done.
Andaya, a University of Houston hospitality management program alum and Rice University MBA grad, recently returned to Houston from Los Angeles where he was an operating partner for two restaurant concepts. He’s working with his childhood friend, Raymond Chan — owner of the local bar, East End Hardware — to bring Hando to the Heights.
Gerri Huck will replace Lisa Frost, of Roxbury, who resigned from the Montpelier-Roxbury Public Schools District board because she is moving to Plymouth, New Hampshire. She received a bachelor’s degree in literature and philosophy from the University of St. Thomas in Texas in 1993 and a Field of Study Project Management Certificate from the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management at Rice University in Houston in 2001.
Saying "no" teaches valuable lessons. "It goes beyond 'you can't have anything you want.' It helpd to develop crativity and resilience, because always saying 'yes' makes children grow up unable to cope with setbacks," says American teacher Scott Sonenshein, a professor of Psychology at Rice University in Texas (USA). (Translated from Portuguese)
Another challenge for St. Luke’s is ownership. It’s the third major management shuffle for Baylor St. Luke’s in under 10 years. “Lots of changes in leadership over that point in time — distractions,” said Ken Janda, a health care economics professor at Rice University and a consultant with Wild Blue Health Solutions.