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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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School Updates
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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Rice MBA Mercedes Moncada-García shares the best practices for making connections and building relationships in business school.
Intero Biosystems — a life science company that has developed the first cell-derived human “mini gut” replicating cell types, spatial structure and function of the human intestine — took home the grand prize at the 2025 Rice Business Plan Competition.
Five student-founded startups have been named finalists for Rice University's prestigious pitch competition, hosted by Rice University’s Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship later this month. The teams will compete for a share of $100,000 in equity-free funding at the H. Albert Napier Rice Launch Challenge (NRLC).
"When you see in big red letters that your stocks are losing money, it's hard to not react," says Rice Business professor Benedict Guttman-Kenney. “But a fantastic way to lose money is to sell in a panic.”
Rice University continues to stand out for its academic excellence with several graduate programs earning high marks in the latest edition of U.S. News & World Report’s “Best Graduate Schools” rankings.
Wagner Kamakura, the Jesse H. Jones Professor Emeritus of Marketing at Rice University, passed away peacefully March 11 surrounded by his family.
Congratulations to Caroline Mazur-Sarocka for being named one of Poets&Quants Best & Brightest Undergraduate Business Majors Of 2025.
Georgian legislation directly mirrors a contentious law Russia passed more than a decade ago to stifle dissent and quash the power of civil society groups.
Research co-authored by Rice Business professor Jung Youn Lee found that variables such as shopping frequency, consistency in spending, choice of products, and use of discount programs correlate strongly with credit risk profiles.
An endowment was recently created for the Gibborim Scholarship at the Jones Graduate School of Business, which aims to provide a scholarship to one non-U.S. veteran a year, preferably for those who “have advanced knowledge of the mission and fundamental values” of the Israeli Defense Forces.
