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.
Rice Business Plan Competition to announce 2021 teams
The Rice Business Plan Competition — the world's largest and richest student startup competition — will announce the teams invited to participate in this year's edition on Friday.
Celebrations at home will sweeten America’s pandemic Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day consumer spending will look different this year, according to an expert from Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
Rice Business' MBA@Rice scores top 10 ranking from US News & World Report
HOUSTON – (Jan. 26, 2020) – The MBA@Rice program at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business is No. 9 on U.S. News & World Report’s Best Online MBA Programs rankings for 2021.
Rice Business online MBA program earns high marks in its first year
Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business placed in the top 10 of five categories in The Princeton Review's latest rankings of the Best Business Schools for 2021, including the No. 6 spot for its newest program, MBA@Rice.
Rice professor’s research wins 2020 Moskowitz Prize
A Rice University professor is among three researchers who have won the 2020 Moskowitz Prize awarded by Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management for their work showing how shareholders can positively influence a company’s environmental impact.
