East Coast native Keith Anderson was

intrigued by Houston’s lively person-

ality during the years he spent at the ROM HIS VANTAGE POINT IN EW ORK ITY F N Y C , Jones School. “I was attracted to BLACKROCK FINANCIAL’S MANAGING DIRECTOR Rice because Houston is a city of KEITH ANDERSON STILL COUNTS HOUSTON AS growth and opportunity, where ONE OF ONLY A FEW DYNAMIC CITIES THAT businesspeople have a very positive COMBINES TOP BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY WITH attitude,” he explains. “I found it to be EXCELLENCE IN ART AND CULTURE. a very stimulating environment, and ...... the Rice campus was wonderful. It KEITH ANDERSON, RICE MBA ’83; MANAGING DIRECTOR, was attractive and serene; at the

BLACKROCK FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, NEW YORK same time, it was only three miles

from the downtown business district

of the fourth-largest city in America.”

One of Keith’s favorite on-campus

activities was attending the Dean’s

Lecture Series, where influential

speakers shared their thoughts on

different careers. “Lectures on cam-

pus—even outside the Jones

School—added tremendously to the

experience,” he says. He also enjoyed

the campus’s close proximity to both

the Texas Medical Center and Rice

Village. “The Village is a dynamic

place with great restaurants and shop-

ping, where students, professors,

medical doctors, and researchers

mingle to form a diverse, interesting

group,” he says.

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WELCOME TO THE RICE FAMILY ...... AT RICE, YOU’LL JOIN A CLOSE-KNIT COMMUNITY OF

FACULTY, STUDENTS, AND ALUMNI. “RICE HAS A VERY ...... STRONG ACADEMIC The Rice family shares a wealth of cultural, so- PROGRAM, AND cial, and athletic activities in the stimulating in- COMPARED TO THE tellectual atmosphere of one of the nation’s pre- EAST COAST mier academic institutions. SCHOOLS I Activities on campus include concerts at the CONSIDERED, THE renowned Shepherd School of Music; dramatic RICE CAMPUS IS EXTREMELY productions by the creative Rice Players; diverse COMFORTABLE AND art exhibits at the Rice University Art Gallery; VERY FRIENDLY.” lectures by world-class leaders in business, politics, and the arts; the competitive spirit of Kristen Weber, intercollegiate athletics; exercise and intramural Vanderbilt University BA ’95, play at the university’s spacious fitness facilities; Rice MBA 2000 and get-togethers at the campus pubs. Even if you do nothing else, you’ll find the tranquil Rice setting, with its graceful architec- ture and towering oak trees, a highly desirable place to be. The 300-acre campus is well-con- tained and easy to navigate, and it’s conveniently located in the heart of Houston. The campus is just a few miles from the downtown business district, across the street from the world renowned Texas Medical Center, and within one of the city’s most beautiful neighbor- hoods. Within walking distance are several superlative museums, the Houston Zoo, beauti- ful Hermann Park, and Rice Village, an eclectic shopping community with nationally known merchants, one-of-a-kind shops, and excellent restaurants. Rice University is also close to Houston’s Montrose area, an enclave of neighborhoods comparable to New York’s SoHo district, where students and young professionals enjoy the ca- maraderie of evenings and weekends at art films, ethnic restaurants, boutiques, and coffeehouses.

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A WORLD OF IDEAS ...... JONES SCHOOL STUDENTS HAVE FREQUENT ACCESS TO GLOBAL LEADERS IN BUSINESS, POLITICS, SCIENCE, PHILOSOPHY, AND THE ARTS......

With more than 25 research centers, institutes, SPEAKERS and consortia, the campus frequently hosts fo- WHO’VE RECENTLY rums and lectures by personalities whose names VISITED RICE: you know and names you need to know. NAMES YOU KNOW Of special interest to MBA students is the en- AND NAMES YOU riching international perspective offered through NEED TO KNOW events at Rice University’s James A. Baker III Insti- ...... tute for Public Policy, established in 1993 to advance World & Politics effective foreign and domestic policy by bringing • Yasir Arafat • Madeleine Albright together the worlds of ideas and action. • James A. Baker, III • Jerry Brown • George H. W. Bush • Jimmy Carter • Mikhail Gorbachev • Lani Guinier • Bernice King • Henry Kissinger • Colin Powell • Janet Reno • Helmut Schmidt • H. Norman Schwarzkopf • Edward Shevardnadze • Lee Kuan Yew

Business • Doyle L. Arnold • Greg Brenneman • Abby Cohen • Alfred D. DeCrane Jr. • Linnet Deily • M. Douglas Ivester • Edward W. Kelley Jr. • John Mackey • Drayton McLane Jr. • Robert Mosbacher, Sr. • Dexter Senft • Jeffrey K. Skilling • Alex Warren

Arts & Culture • Cecilia Bartoli • Alan Dershowitz • Carlos Fuentes • Werner Herzog • Rolando Hinojosa • Richard Howard • Philip Levine • Yo Yo Ma Pictured From Top to Bottom: • Vanessa Redgrave • Susan Sontag General Colin Powell. • Kurt Vonnegut • Derek Walcott Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. • Andre Watts Sixty-first Secretary of State James A. Baker, III, visits with Jones School Media students after he delivered an address at the Dean’s Lecture Series. • David S. Broder M. Douglas Ivester, chairman and chief executive officer of Coca-Cola • Thomas Friedman Company. • Katharine Graham • David Halberstam • Molly Ivins

Science and Mathematics • James L. Cushing • Daniel S. Goldin • Jaron Lanier • David H. Levy • Roger Penrose • Steven Pinker • Neal Lane

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H ERE’S HOUSTON! FAMILY MATTERS ...... IF YOU HAVEN’T VISITED TEXAS YET, HOUSTON WILL WHAT HAPPENS TO YOUR FAMILY WHILE YOU’RE EARNING

“ HOUSTON HAS A SURPRISE YOU. YOUR MBA AT RICE? ...... SURPRISINGLY VIBRANT INVEST- It’s green: the climate is very pleasant during the A THRIVING ECONOMY MENT BANKING school year. It’s cosmopolitan: more than sixty COMMUNITY. THE languages are spoken by the city’s diverse popula- If you’re married, your spouse won’t have to put RICE MBA ENABLED tion. It’s dynamic: the skyline glistens with his or her career on hold while you attend the ME TO BECOME A stunning architecture. Jones School. As the nation’s fourth largest city, PART OF IT. I Houstonians love to eat out, and they’ve got Houston enjoys a thriving economy with abun- PARLAYED MY PRIOR CAREER EXPERIENCE their choice of more than 8,000 restaurants fea- dant opportunity for professional growth in many AND MY NEW MBA turing global ethnic cuisines. There’s a lively diverse industries, including law, banking, inter- SKILLS INTO A GREAT night scene at the newly revitalized downtown, national trade and finance, energy, engineering/ CAREER IN EQUITY along with performance halls that house world- design, health care, high technology, biotechnol- RESEARCH.” renowned resident companies in ballet, opera, ogy, space technology, and communications. symphony, and theater. The Uptown District fea- Greg Haas, tures some of the world’s best shopping. A GOOD FAMILY TOWN Rice MBA ’99; Galveston, with its beaches and Strand Historic Equity Research Analyst, Raymond James & Associates District, is less than an hour’s drive away. The Houston is a very family-friendly city. Family golf season lasts year-round, with more than 100 entertainment runs the gamut from baseball and courses nearby. Professional sports action in- soccer leagues to themed amusement centers. “COMING TO TEXAS cludes the NBA Houston Rockets, Houston The city offers 52,000 acres of parks and quality FROM PHILADELPHIA, Astros baseball, Houston Aeros ice hockey, and attractions such as the Houston Zoo, the Mu- I FEARED THAT I the WNBA Comets. seum of Natural Science, the Cockrell Butterfly WOULD HAVE TO As an added bonus, Houston is exception- Center, Space Center Houston at NASA, and the DODGE HORSES AND ally affordable, with a cost of living 17 percent Children’s Museum of Houston. Annual family COWBOYS TO GET TO below the national average for cities of compa- events include the Houston International Festi- CLASS. WHAT I REALLY FOUND WAS rable size and average annual pay of nearly 8 per- val and the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. A BEAUTIFUL, TREE- cent above the national average. Family health care costs in Houston are 11 LINED CAMPUS IN A percent below the national average for large METROPOLITAN AREA ...... metro areas, in part due to the resources of the WITH ART, MUSIC, HOUSTON’S AVERAGE SCHOOL-YEAR TEMPERATURES (F) Texas Medical Center, the world’s largest medi- THEATER, AND ...... cal care and research community. MUSEUMS. EVEN MY September ------80° CLASSMATES IN October ------69° A FFORDABLE HOUSING COWBOY BOOTS November ------56° KNOW HOW TO December ------54° Whether your lifestyle is best suited to an urban SWING AND SALSA ° (AS WELL AS TWO- January ------53 loft, a historic bungalow, or a new home in a mas- ° STEP).” February ------56 ter-planned suburban community, numerous March ------61° residential options are convenient to the Rice Lisa H. Beckman, April ------65° University campus. Housing costs in Houston fall Temple University BA ’94, May ------73° almost 30 percent below the average for large Rice MBA 2000 urban areas. You may wish to live in the new ...... university-sponsored housing for graduate stu- AIR HOURS FROM HOUSTON dents, which opened in fall 1999. Ranging from ...... efficiencies to four bedrooms, the graduate Chicago ------2:25 apartments are within easy walking distance of Hong Kong ------19:55 campus and also are served by a university London ------9:05 shuttle bus. Other rental property options are Los Angeles ------3:26 posted at Rice University’s Student Center Mexico City ------2:10 Information Desk. New York ------3:15 Paris ------10:20 San Francisco ------3:51 Singapore ------25:10

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