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A new study co-authoered by Rice Business’ Tommy Pan Fang provides the first large-scale statistical analysis of data center location strategies across the United States. It offers policymakers and firms a clearer starting point for understanding how different types of data qcenters get located in response to economic and strategic incentives.
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New research co-authored by Jing Zhou finds that generative AI can enhance employee creativity—but mainly for those with strong metacognition. Employees who actively plan, monitor and refine their thinking benefit most from AI, highlighting the need to pair AI tools with training that develops these skills.
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Poets&Quants highlights 2025’s most disruptive undergraduate startups, showcasing student founders applying business education to launch ventures across tech, health, education and consumer markets.
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Bloomberg Businessweek has ranked the Rice Business full-time MBA program No. 19 — rising ten spots from last year.
Rice Business has the wonderful tradition of “Partio”, short for Party on the Patio, every Thursday evening. Each partio has a theme, and we celebrate a diverse range of holidays and nationalities. It’s a way for students and faculty to connect outside of the classroom in a fun and social setting.
Rice University today introduced the Rice Biotech Launch Pad, a Houston-based accelerator focused on expediting the translation of the university’s health and medical technology discoveries into cures. Yael Hochberg, head of the Rice Entrepreneurship Initiative and the Ralph S. O'Connor Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, is on the accelerator’s founding advisory council.
A new initiative from Rice University is launching with an ambitious goal — to take biotech innovations from concept to clinical trials in five years or less. The founding advisory council includes Rice Business professor Yael Hochberg.
Vikas Mittal, the J. Hugh Liedtke Professor of Marketing at Rice Business, writes an opinion piece for the Houston Chronicle about the administrative requirements that can weigh down teachers and principals.
Can artificial intelligence (AI) select job candidates as well — or better — than traditional methods? A new, four-year study from the National Science Foundation seeks to find out. Fred Oswald, the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences and a Rice Business professor, is a co-principal investigator of the study.
Rice Business professor Michelle “Mikki” Hebl was awarded the Advancing Women in Leadership award by the diversity, equity and inclusion division of the Academy of Management, acknowledging her contributions to education to help the development of women in leadership.
The 20th Annual Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum will see industry leaders showcase energy tech innovations for the shift toward a more sustainable, reliable and lower carbon future on Sept. 21 at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
Move over, engineers — there’s a new major in town. According to the Office of Academic Advising, 26.7 percent of new students are interested in the business major, surpassing all other potential majors.
Whether it's the cost of a sandwich or a gallon of gas, the behavioral economics principle of reference prices shape our views of inflation. Rice Business professor Utpal Dholakia shares his knowledge on the subject.