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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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The University of Houston and Rice University are once again celebrating top spots on the 18th annual Top Schools for Entrepreneurship Studies lists released by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine on Nov. 7.
For the fifth consecutive year, Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business has been ranked No. 1 for graduate entrepreneurship programs by Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.
The 12th annual Texas Life Science Forum takes place Nov. 7 at Rice University and will bring together 600 attendees for keynote speakers, panels and pitches from life science technologies.
The Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University ranks third globally for its entrepreneurship program, according to Poets&Quants’ fifth annual ranking of such programs announced today.
Prominent entrepreneurs and business leaders have committed to invest in Houston’s innovation landscape as part of the inaugural cohort of the Rice University Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Lilie)’s Leadership Council.
User Solutions has recently been working with Rice Business and Florida International University on capstone projects featuring manufacturing software launching and appropriate social media programs.
Leaders from Rice University and Mexico’s Anáhuac University will unveil a new international executive education program Nov. 6 at a signing ceremony at Rice. A second ceremony will take place Nov. 16 in Mexico City.
In an opinion piece in The Hill, Rice Business marketing professor Vikas Mittal says that Bud Light's sales fell due to product quality, low customer satisfaction, and management errors, not just one incident.
What keeps us from bridging the wage gap? In a peer-reviewed commentary regarding research that examines workplace victim-blaming, Rice Business professor Mikki Hebl and former Rice Ph.D. students interrogate the role victim-blaming plays in perpetuating the gender wage gap.
The annual diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) conference from Rice Business is slated for Oct. 27 and will provide a forum for awareness, dialogue and skill-building, according to event organizers.
