Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management
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The Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Management is one of seven academic units of Rice University. Named in honor of the late Jesse Holman Jones, a prominent Houston business and civic leader, the school received its initial funding in 1974 through a major gift from the Houston Endowment Inc., a philanthropic foundation established by Jones and his wife, Mary Gibbs Jones. The school offers the MBA and MBA for Executives degree as well as a joint MBA/ME with the George R. Brown School of Engineering and a MD/MBA with Baylor College of Medicine. The Jones school at Rice is also home to nearly 200 executive MBA students.
The Economist magazine, ranked the Jones School's finance program No. 1 in the U.S. in its January 2002 "Which MBA?" article. The school's marketing program tied for 8th in the world and was ranked 2nd in the U.S. The Jones school tied for 4th in the world and tied for 3rd in the U.S. for faculty quality and for program content tied for 14th in the world and tied for 5th in the U.S. The Financial Times 2005 ranks the Jones School Best in U.S. and 6th in the World for Career Progress.[1]
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First year students in the Rice EMBA program are required to complete a knowledge management paper for the Friedkin Chair of Management professor G. Anthony Gorry on how the principles of Wikipedia apply to businesses who are seeking to create a knowledge management system.
Dr. Gorry co-authored a paper entitled Creating a knowledge-sharing community: if you build it, will they come?
