Rice Business professor Zhou elected fellow of Academy of Management
Jing Zhou, the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management and Psychology at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business, has been elected as a fellow of the Academy of Management (AOM).
Juneteenth event addresses Rice's history and topics of African American life
Task force proposes competition to redesign Academic Quad, determine fate of statue.
Executives wildly overestimate financial benefits of strategy planning, research finds
Research shows executives likely to overestimate financial benefits of strategy planning
Rice U. study: Use rewards effectively to boost creativity
HOUSTON – (June 17, 2021) – To boost employees’ creativity, managers should consider offering a set of rewards for them to choose from, according to a new study by management experts at Rice University, Tulane University, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro and National Taiwan Normal University.
Rice celebrates Juneteenth and emancipations to come
Rice’s second annual Juneteenth celebration will bring together professors across the university — from Computational and Applied Mathematics to Modern and Classical Literature and Cultures — for three panels exploring ideas and questions central to the meaning and promise of the important holiday.
Executives aren't sold on strategy planning, research finds
New research shows executives doubt the effectiveness of strategy planning, which is conducted by an overwhelming majority of large companies in the United States. That attitude may doom such plans’ successful implementation, the researchers argue.
Smartphone app for convenience store owners wins 2021 Rice Business Plan Competition
An application that allows convenience store owners to remotely manage and monitor their businesses from their smartphones took home the grand prize during the 2021 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC).
Rice Business Plan Competition events to be livestreamed
Three events during this week's Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) — the world's largest and richest student startup competition — will be livestreamed.
Serving size, satisfaction influence food waste on campus
Understanding what drives food choices can help high-volume food service operations like universities reduce waste, according to a new study.
Rice graduate school programs score high in US News rankings
Eight Rice graduate programs rank among the country’s top 25 in the latest edition of U.S. News and World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools.”
Kumon or Montessori? It may depend on your politics, study of 8,500 parents finds
Whether parents prefer a conformance-oriented or independence-oriented supplemental education program for their children depends on political ideology, according to a study of more than 8,500 American parents by a research team from Rice and the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Internet-access spending improves academic outcomes, study of Texas schools finds
Increased internet-access spending by Texas public schools improved academic performance but also led to more disciplinary problems among students.
Rice Business names Constance Porter senior associate dean of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
Constance Porter, assistant clinical professor of marketing at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business, has joined the leadership team of the school's newly expanded Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI).
Rice offering undergraduate major in business starting this fall
HOUSTON – (March 1, 2021) – Rice University will offer an undergraduate major in business beginning this fall.
Rice mourns tragedy in Jones School family
The Rice community mourns with the family of Jones Graduate School of Business student Jackie Nguyen, whose mother and three young children died in a house fire Feb. 16 in Sugar Land.
