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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.

A team of business students from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has been selected as one of 42 teams from some of the world’s top universities who will compete for more than $1.5 million in prizes at the Rice Business Plan Competition April 4-6.

Kroger first launched its driverless delivery vehicles last summer in Scottsdale, Arizona. Now, Houston will be the program’s second location. Utpal Dholakia, a marketing professor at Rice University’s business school, said whether or not the program is practical, it’s valuable from a marketing perspective. “This gives some kind of ammunition to fight really strong competitors in a really strong market,” Dholakia said. “It makes sense that you would want to pick an area where you can make a big splash.”

Rice University tied at No. 26 for its full-time MBA and tied at No. 17 for its part-time MBA. It also tied at No. 17 for its entrepreneurship specialty.

Davenport University announced today that it has named Rachel Render as its new executive vice president of alumni and development. For the last four years, Render served as a senior director within the Leeds School of Business at the University of Colorado Boulder, working with alumni and donors in New York City and Chicago. Prior to joining the University of Colorado Boulder, she was with the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, where she led the school to the successful completion of the $65 million Rice Centennial Campaign.

Nearly a quarter of a million people in the Houston area lack access to healthy food. A new report from Rice University’s Kinder Institute for Urban Research says collaboration between hunger-fighting organizations is necessary to address the problem. “Challenges of Social Sector Systemic Collaborations: What’s Cookin’ in Houston’s Food Insecurity Space?” is authored by Doug Schuler, a Kinder Fellow and associate professor of business and public policy at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, and Balaji Koka, an associate professor of strategic management at the Jones School, examines the nature of collaborations between nonprofit, for-profit and governmental organizations working on food insecurity and food deserts in Houston.

Houston TV viewers will soon say goodbye to Christine Dobbyn, although it's not farewell. "I love my job but was feeling the need for a new challenge," the ABC 13 reporter told Chron.com. Dobbyn is currently getting a Master of Business Administration from the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. She has been juggling school and work since the beginning of the school year.

Dobbyn, who is currently getting a Master of Business Administration from the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, has been juggling school and work since the beginning of the school year.

The extent to which students look racially stereotypical—that is, more or less like members of their racial group—influences how likely they are to persist in a STEM-related field, according to a new study. “I think we live in a presumed meritocracy where people believe what you get on tests and how you do in the classroom is what matters,” says Mikki Hebl, chair of psychological sciences and professor of management at Rice University. “Our research says that your looks do matter and can impact your likelihood to depart or remain in a STEM field. And that is pretty shocking.”

When Bloomberg Businessweek cranked out its latest ranking of full-time MBA programs last year, the magazine’s lineup was informed by completed surveys from 3,698 employers who recruit MBA graduates. Typically, Businessweek doesn’t share the full results of those recruiter surveys but today (March 6) released a new set of findings from them. When it came to reputation, Stanford Graduate School of Business came out first, with the University of Washington’s Foster School of Business second, UC-Berkeley’s Haas School of Business third, Georgetown fourth and Rice University fifth.