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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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Transactional communication can eat up as much as 44% of your work day, according to research from Rice Business Wisdom. Planned conversations work to inspire employees and keep them engaged.
Takeya Green '22 was recently awarded the AT&T Future Executive Leader of Distinction Award in Honor of Randall Stephenson from the Texas Business Hall of Fame.
Congratulations to Matthew Goldsby '21 and Bo Bothe '05 for being named Houston Business Journal's most admired CEOs.
The Houston Business Journal has named 105 women as honorees, including several Rice Business alumnae, for the 2022 Women Who Mean Business Awards, recognizing women in leadership roles who have demonstrated excellence in their careers and community.
Vikas Mittal, marketing professor at Rice Business, says when oil prices are high, many companies in the oil and gas industry spend like “drunken pirates” as they chase revenue growth, bigger market shares and higher profits. When prices fall, they’ll tighten belts — often too much — and fire workers.
In recent years, brands became associated with conservative or liberal views as companies or their CEOs increasingly took stands on prominent political issues, Vikas Mittal, a professor of marketing at Rice Business, who has studied the issue, told ABC News.
Challenges at Baker Hughes may foreshadow struggles for industry's transition to lower carbon energy
“A lot of oil field services companies have lost focus,” says Vikas Mittal, marketing professor at Rice Business. “They want to be a technology company, they want to be a digital company, they want to be a socially responsible company... The one thing they don't want to be is a service company.”