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DesRoches outlines 2023 goals to faculty

President Reginald DesRoches delivers his inaugural State of the University

Strategic planning process to be launched in January

President Reginald DesRoches shared the news with the Rice community in an email Nov. 21.

Rice Business launches new organizational behavior Ph.D. program

Rice Business will offer a Ph.D. with a concentration in organizational behavior starting next fall. The deadline to apply is Jan. 13, 2023.

Expert available to discuss Twitter’s leadership

An expert in leadership and organizational change is available to speak on Twitter employees’ exodus.

Rice Business No. 1 for entrepreneurship, No. 5 for online MBA

Rice Business received top billing on two prominent lists rating academic excellence that were announced today: Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine’s entrepreneurship ranking (No. 1) and Poets and Quants’ online MBA ranking (No. 5).

People, papers and presentations for Nov. 7, 2022

Phoebe Wang, a Rice Business alumna and clean tech venture capitalist who serves as an investment director at Shell Ventures, was selected as Clean Energy Education and Empowerment’s (C3E) 2022 Business Award winner and accepted the honor during the C3E symposium Nov. 2.

First annual Rice Business DEI report shows action toward fostering culture of respect, opportunity

Rice Business has released its first annual report on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI).

Rice Business’ annual diversity, equity and inclusion conference set for Oct. 28

Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business will host its annual Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) conference on campus Oct. 28.

Business major serves community as pipe organ player at Houston-area church

Bruce Xu ’24 is a business major at Rice doesn’t mind hitting the road every week to play the organ at a church in The Woodlands.

Rice Business and MD Anderson launch health care leadership program

Rice Business and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have launched a new health care leadership program designed to help executives navigate the complexity of running health care organizations.

Rice ranked by Niche as one of nation’s top 10 universities

Rice earns an “A+” grade and ranks as one of the nation’s top 10 universities in the latest ratings of American colleges compiled by Niche.

People, papers and presentations for July 25, 2022

Kunal Sachdeva, assistant professor of finance at the Jones Graduate School of Business, and his team won second place and $10,000 Canadian dollars (about $7,770) in the International Centre for Pension Management’s 2022 Call for Research for their paper titled “The Real Effects of Environmental Activist Investing.”

Ten new professors join Rice Business

The Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University has added ten faculty members with expertise ranging from management to marketing. It’s a record number of new tenured and tenure-track professors for the school.

Jing Zhou named Rice Business’ deputy dean of academic affairs

Jing Zhou, the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management and Psychology at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, has been appointed deputy dean of academic affairs for the business school effective July 1.

Semiconductor technology startup wins 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition

LIDROTEC, a student startup from RWTH Aachen University in Germany that aims to increase production in the semiconductor industry, took home the grand prize at the 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC).