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Rice Business professor Vikas Mittal says Buc-ee’s has developed deep customer commitment, with visits becoming an emotional and habitual ritual. He predicts loyalty will grow as Buc-ee’s expands nationwide.
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Congratulations to Kathleen Perley, recognized by Poets & Quants among the 2026 Best and Brightest Executive MBAs.
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Beginning with the class entering in fall 2027, Rice will offer free tuition to admitted university students from families earning up to $200,000 per year, the university announced today (August 3). Students from families earning less than $100,000 will have tuition, mandatory fees, room, and board fully covered.
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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.
Renewable Energy Alliance Houston (REAL Houston) and Rice Business Executive Education hosted the second annual Renewable Energy Leadership Conference Aug. 22 on Rice’s campus to explore the impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) one year after it was signed into law.
Michelle “Mikki” Hebl , the Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Professor of Psychological Sciences and professor at Rice Business, is the 2023 recipient of the Advancing Women in Leadership Award from the Academy of Management (AOM).
Startup founders are often fired by investors who want the company to steer into a new direction, yet new research co-authored by Rice Business professor Minjae Kim shows that these entrepreneurs have what it takes to effect change.
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