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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 2023 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC), hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jones Graduate School of Business, will be held on Rice University campus May 11-13.
A new tool developed by Georgia Tech Scheller College of Business measures the ROI of the top 30 MBA programs. Rice Business is ranked ninth with a salary to tuition ratio of 1.11.
Rice Business announced that it will add a fourth round for full-time MBA applicants from Canada, Mexico, or the United States “who need a little extra time” to finish their essays and other app components.
Rice leaders met with members of the Danish parliament March 6 to discuss Rice and Houston’s innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem. Rice Business Executive Education organized the event to build and maintain bridges between the Danish and Houston business communities.
After 42 pitches and more than 300 meetings, investors and energy corporations have selected the eight “Most Promising Companies” at the 2023 Rice Alliance Energy Venture Day.
The inaugural CEO Foundation gala, held at the Houston Museum of Natural Science, raised a remarkable $315,000 courtesy of the auction and contributions.
The Liu Idea Lab for Innovation and Entrepreneurship has established a new startup accelerator program called the Summer Venture Studio. The program is open to students of any major or year, including recent graduates.
Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business ranks 17th among top U.S. business schools and 29th globally — up from 28th and 47th a year ago, respectively — and is No. 1 in Texas, according to 2023 rankings from the Financial Times.
“We believe that the recognition of online and campus MBAs as equal degrees will continue to increase, but that the ability for institutions to offer different modalities to different consumers will continue to be of utmost importance,” says George Andrews, associate dean of degree programs at Rice Business.
Rice Business professor of accounting Ben Lansford says graduating students who might have pursued accounting a decade ago are now going into investment banking, data analysis and consulting: “Those jobs pay more and also don’t require the fifth year of college education.”
