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Rice University student-founded companies took home a total of $115,000 in equity-free funding at the annual Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship's H. Albert Napier Rice Launch Challenge last week. 2025 Rice Innovation Fellow Alexandria Carter won the top prize and $50,000 for her startup Bionostic.
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Alex Cantin is graduating this May with a degree in business management, including a minor in entrepreneurship, from the Virani Undergraduate School of Business at Rice and will join McKinsey as a consultant. Cantin said he chose Rice because of the faculty-student ratio and because he would be one of the early graduates of the new Virani School.
24 Apr
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In The Media
Rice Business professor Emily Prinsloo comments on dynamic pricing and its recent use.
23 Apr
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Congrats to Samantha Lewis ’17, who recently joined the Houston-based Mercury Fund as principal. Formerly a director at GOOSE Capital, her passion for entrepreneurship and proven experience will serve her well. Good luck in this next chapter, Samantha!
“Employers are interested in attracting the best talent to their organizations. The delivery method of the program is less important than the level of talent that it graduates,” says Philip Heavilin, executive director of the Career Development Office.
Rice 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 number 6 spot for our newest program, MBA@Rice.
Rice Business alum Duncan Dickerson helps advise the world’s biggest oil companies on how to navigate the great carbon transition as the vice president of investment banking at Lazard in Houston.
Approximately 383,000 Texas residents chose health coverage on the marketplace from Nov. 1 to Nov. 21. "The combination of more carriers, little to no rate increases and the impact of job loss is what’s driving buying insurance,” said Ken Janda, adjunct professor of health policy management.
Prison farm improves food sustainability and reforms within the American correctional system. Doug Schuler, Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy, is quoted.
Panic buying has returned for its second round in the Bay Area, even though industry officials are assuring consumers the supply chain is fine. Utpal Dholakia, professor of marketing, makes the argument that it could even be viewed as rational consumer behavior.
In today's Monday roundup of Houston innovators, I'm introducing you to three innovators across industries — from sports tech to startup mentorship.
Rice Business Professor, Kunal Sachdeva 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.
We're proud to have the second highest gains in women MBAs over the last five years in the full-time program, according to Poets and Quants and Forté Foundation.
