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Accounting
Our accounting faculty are trailblazing scholars who have made major contributions to accounting research and pedagogy. Their passion for educating future leaders — that means you — is apparent in their classrooms and frequently recognized by teaching awards.
Communication
Everything our communication professors teach is designed to turn you into a strategic communicator. In the global and digital landscapes of business today, the ability to communicate effectively — to inform, motivate, persuade and listen — has never been more important. You'll hone your skills through both classroom instruction and small-group coaching.
Energy
Our faculty bring the commercial acumen and leadership from the vibrant energy and oil and gas sector of Houston. Courses in geopolitics of energy, safety, business analysis and operations are widely regarded as conduits to leadership positions in energy industry midstream and upstream organizations.
Entrepreneurship
Rice Business is a recognized leader in entrepreneurship education, ranked No. 1 by the Princeton Review. Our courses, labs, competitions, career guidance and extracurricular programming will give you a thorough understanding of all areas of business as well as the ability to create business plans that address real market opportunities.
Finance
Our finance faculty's distinguished scholarship and teaching helped us achieve a No. 3 ranking as the Best MBA for Finance by the Princeton Review. You’ll gain cutting-edge insights in everything from basic financial management to more technical subjects such as options and other derivatives as well as financial modeling.
Healthcare
Our healthcare faculty bring their expertise from the field into the classroom to provide students with an understanding of how management principles are interpreted and applied in the different sectors of the industry, such as providers, hospitals/small practices, payers, pharmaceutical and biotechnology.
Marketing
Marketing shapes successful strategy to distinguish a company’s products and services. Our faculty embrace the multidisciplinary, quick-changing art and science of marketing. Their research-backed insights, steeped in analysis, will help you find the strategies that work to set your company apart.
Operations Management
Our operations management faculty deliver a deeper understanding of a firm’s operational competencies, processes and supply chain. They approach operations from a desired business strategy rather than a technical engineering view, teaching you to manage a business through design, planning, control, coordination and improvement of business processes and systems.
Organizational Behavior
Our faculty have published groundbreaking research on topics including affect, creativity, emotions, ethics, expertise, intuition, personality and sensemaking. Through innovative exercises, cases and assignments, our professors will teach you the applications and importance of organizational behavior in today's dynamic business world.
Real Estate
Our program educates leaders to navigate the complex institutional world of real estate.
Strategy and Environment
Our strategy and environment faculty publish pioneering work on emerging markets, entrepreneurship, corporate governance, alliance and merger strategies and corporate responsibility that bring a fresh, relevant foundation for understanding the material they teach. You'll develop expertise in strategic alliances, mergers and acquisitions, global market entry and management, business model innovations and organizational change.
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Rice Business Wisdom features faculty research applied in the classroom.
Marketing | Peer-Reviewed Research
AI Is Providing a Fresh Perspective to Everyday Problems
ChatGPT enhances creativity and problem-solving in ways that traditional search tools can’t match.
Based on research by Jaeyeon (Jae) Chung
Finance | Peer-Reviewed Research
The Front Line Against Elder Financial Abuse
A “permissive governance” policy is empowering financial advisers to fight the exploitation of older Americans.
Based on research by Bruce Carlin and Tarik Umar
Strategy | Peer-Reviewed Research
Corporate Activism Tends To Follow, Not Lead, Social Change
Companies often avoid using a “collective action frame” in their messaging until after a controversial issue is legally and politically settled.
Based on research by Alessandro Piazza
Organizational Behavior | Peer-Reviewed Research
Loving Your Work Is Good. But It’s Not a Virtue.
Loving your work can be valuable — but treating it as the only “right” reason to pursue a career can cause harm.
Based on research by Mijeong Kwon
Accounting | Peer-Reviewed Research
Companies Talk More Clearly When Business Is Booming
In years with strong performance, corporate disclosures are more helpful for stock price discovery — in bad news years, not so much.
Based on research by K. Ramesh
Operations Management | Peer-Reviewed Research
How Advance Selling Helps Businesses Weather a Crisis
New research shows how to tap customer support when times get tough.
Based on research by Yiangos Papanastasiou