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Rice University ranks first in Texas for 10-year return on investment, with alumni seeing roughly $334,000 in gains. Its strong earnings outcomes keep Rice at the top of both short and long-term ROI comparisons statewide.
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Rice Business professor Mijeong Kwon finds that viewing passion for work as a moral virtue can harm employees and teams, leading to guilt, burnout and biased treatment of colleagues who are seen as less passionate.
26 Nov
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Rice Business professor Mijeong Kwon argues that moralizing a love of work can undermine workplace well-being. Her research shows that treating intrinsic motivation as a virtue fuels guilt, burnout and biased judgments that disrupt team dynamics.
25 Nov
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Medical device company Rhaeos and BrewBike, a student-run coffee company, brought home big honors — and funding — in the 2019 Rice Business Plan Competition hosted by Rice University earlier this month.
“An IPO doesn’t create a new company,” says Alexander Butler, professor of finance at the Jones School at Rice University. “It does, however, generate significant liquidity for the firm, for employees, and for other shareholders who go forth into the community to spend their new cash.”
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Psychologist and Rice University professor Erik Dane finds that the more expertise and experience people gain, the more entrenched they become in a particular way of viewing the world. Compared to novices, experts are overconfident in their ability to understand problems outside their expertise, leading them to develop worse solutions.
Companies that go public on the stock market provide an economic boost to the local communities where they’re based, according to new research from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business. After businesses file for an initial public offering (IPO), ZIP codes close to the company’s headquarters see certain home prices and consumer spending rise, according to researchers led by Alexander Butler, professor of finance at the Jones School.
Nashville-based SafeStamp, which created a nanotech indicator to seal medicine packaging and allow consumers to verify its authenticity, was offered $55,000 as the winner of the fifth annual Veterans Business Battle at Rice University.
Vince Kaminski is a professor in the practice of energy management at Rice University’s Jesse Jones Graduate School of Business. In this podcast he examines the recent spate of commodity defaults, looking at why they occurred and whether enough has been put in place to avert future calamities.
The team - led by Noah Asher, a senior finance and economics major at UA Little Rock, who has previous experience and success working on startups and commercializing medical technology and who has previously worked with Trigeaud on past ventures - traveled to Rice University in Houston to compete in the prestigious Rice Business Plan Competition, the largest new venture competition in the world. “Out of 42 teams comprised of some of the top universities and smartest graduate students in the world, we finished in the top ten,” Asher says. “We are really happy with how we did, and I am extremely proud of our team.”
In a recent study, Rice Business professor Utpal Dholakia and colleagues René Algesheimer of the University of Zurich and Călin Gurău of GSCM-Montpellier Business School looked closely at what motivates remote teams and how to measure what they do.
Halfway through my 73rd year, I often find myself wondering what my other selves would be like, and what and how they would be doing. By other selves, I mean the different persons I have been at various points in my life.