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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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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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Entrance exams are not as ubiquitously required among the leading online MBA programs as they are in traditional master’s of business administration programs. Rice Business ranks among other schools with the top GMAT scores.
Rice Business professor Nicola Secomandi, along with University of Illinois at Chicago College of Business Administration professor Selvaprabu Nadajarah, were recently invited by the European Journal of Operational Research to conduct a review of the operations literature on real options in energy.
A paper co-written by Kunal Sachdeva, Assistant Professor of Finance at Rice Business, examines the evolution of ESG reports for S&P 500 companies and explores how the content of ESG reports has evolved in the absence of regulation.
Rice Business will offer a Ph.D. with a concentration in organizational behavior starting next fall. The deadline to apply is Jan. 13, 2023.
George Andrews, associate dean of degree programs at Rice Business, advises students to set up a designated workspace, and schedule time outside of class to study, prepare assignments and meet with their team for group projects.
The Consortium, whose members include Rice Business, has had a mission of the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion in graduate business education and American business since 1966.
“Leadership starts with a vision that inspires employees and sets expectations,” said Scott Sonenshein, organizational behavior area coordinator and the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Management at Rice Business and a New York Times bestselling author.
What’s the cheapest, quickest way to reduce climate change without roiling the economy? In the United States, it may be by reducing methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.
Nearly all emissions can be stopped with new components or regulations that prohibit routine flaring, says Jim Krane, fellow for energy studies at the Baker Institute for Public Policy and a lecturer at Rice Business
Houston entrepreneurs, take note. Rice University and the University of Houston again are at the top of their class among the country’s best entrepreneurship programs.