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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 dean Peter Rodriguez called Samsung's expansion plans "a traditionally significant investment in the U.S. economy. It has few or no peers in terms of scale and strategic importance."
"For summer internship we hired our biggest summer internship class ever at about 500 just for MBAs across all U.S. schools. It could vary anywhere from places like Booth, HBS, Kellogg, Wharton, Stanford—to Rice, CMU, UT Austin, Notre Dame."
Back in the Paleolithic Age of online marketing — say, 15 years ago — the idea of online sales as a significant business vehicle for brands such as Target or Walmart was almost unimaginable. According to research from Rice Business professor Utpal Dholakia, it's time to update your thinking.
The Boston Consulting Group, one of the premier recruiters of MBA talent, is a highly selective employer. This year, they expanded what had been a largely U.S.-centric group of schools by nine other additional MBA programs, adding many of the best European players as well as a few in the U.S., including Rice Business.
Global supply chain and operations implementation consulting firm, SGS Maine Pointe, announced today that it has appointed Rice Business alumna Tiffany Pankratz-Umbehrto the position of Executive Vice President, Consumer Goods & Retail.
Three schools, including Rice Business, haven’t changed their estimates in four years. Kellogg and Emory Goizueta only increased their estimates this year after years of not doing so.
Rice Business Entrepreneur in Residence Jay Steinfeld speaks with Modern Diplomacy: "Anyone can build a business and a life of consequence by following 4 principles. My 4 Es: 1. Evolve continuously 2. Experiment without fear of failure 3. Express yourself and 4. Enjoy the ride."
The Class of 2022 shares the best practices to future online MBAs.
The magic number is nine at UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business, Yale School of Management, and Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business, each of which have announced that number of new professors will join their faculty for the 2022-2023 academic year.
Rice Jones Graduate School of Business has made its biggest-ever addition to the faculty, hiring nine new professors. It is one of three top B-schools this week to announce hiring nine new instructors for the fall.
