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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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Rice Business received top billing on two prominent lists rating academic excellence that were announced today: Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine’s entrepreneurship ranking (No. 1) and Poets and Quants’ online MBA ranking (No. 5).
Two Houston universities are celebrating top spots on the 17th annual Top Schools for Entrepreneurship Studies lists released by The Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine.
Ben Lansford, accounting professor and director of the Master of Accounting program, discusses the reason accounting is a major in decline at schools across the country — and why it’s worth the time.
Rice Business has released its first annual report on diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI). The report highlights internal efforts to become a more welcoming and accepting community, a major priority for Peter Rodriguez, dean of the Jones Graduate School of Business.
Rice Business professors Kevin Crotty and Kerry Back, and Ph.D. student Seyed Mohammad Kazempour, recently evaluated whether new predictors based on option prices really are a valuable forecasting tool in their paper, “Validity, Tightness, and Forecasting Power of Risk Premium Bounds.”
The largest crowd in the history of the Global Consortium of Entrepreneurship Centers (GCEC) Conference gathered last week in Las Vegas to celebrate creativity and innovation in university-based entrepreneurship education. The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship is the global headquarters for the GCEC.
Rice Business professor Jing Zhou discusses her research in organizational behavior and the factors that facilitate or inhibit creativity and innovation.
Schlumberger, Halliburton and Baker Hughes saw revenues increase in a three-month period. Rice Business marketing professor Vikas Mittal says that oil field services companies are chasing new technology and trying to expand their offerings instead of focusing on customer service.
Part of Rice Business’ mission is to create a rich learning environment that considers and appreciates different viewpoints — a critical mindset and leadership skill in today’s increasingly global and inclusive workplace. The conference is designed to provide a forum for awareness, dialogue and skill-building.
Cody Bass '22 equates studying business to mastering a different language: “I mean you now understand (on a deeper level) what the execs are trying to do, or what and why investors are asking for certain metrics.”
