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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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Identifying the best circumstances to make creativity bloom is one of the driving questions in a study by Rice Business Professor Jing Zhou and colleague Inga J. Hoever, a professor at the Barcelona School of Management in Spain.
The Management Incubator, an interactive two-day program will return October 26-27, 2022, hosted at The Howard Hughes Corporation® The Woodlands Towers.
Detractors are suspicious of the anonymity that comes with blockchain technology. Supporters say it's exactly the point. Rice Business adjunct professor Manolo Sánchez explains.
The Rice Business MBA for Executives ranks at #11 on the latest Poets & Quants EMBA list.
The Rice Alliance Clean Energy Accelerator named the early- to mid-stage startups that will participate in its second annual class — five of which are based in Houston. The 10-week program kicks off at the Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum in September.
Discussing the Texas commercial real estate market with Christine Mastandrea, adjunct professor in management – real estate at the Rice Business.
Beyond everyday items, having inflation on the brain is likely making people think more about prices than they normally would, explains Utpal Dholakia, professor of marketing at Rice Business.
Congratulations to Pierre Aristide and Keri Sprung for being featured in Poets and Quants Best & Brightest Executive MBAs Of 2022.
Cart.com CEO Omair Tariq '16 began by hawking jewelry in Houston flea markets. Now he's out to prove his tech company is a giant-killer. Rice Business lecturer Rafael Alvarez added, "...something great is in store for Houston because of the immigrants here.”
Andrew Clifton, MBA '13, has been named president of Zing Health. "Andrew embraces our mission to bring whole-person care to urban and rural areas with fewer medical resources," says Dr. Eric E. Whitaker, Zing Health founder and CEO.
