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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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The Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University has added nine faculty members with expertise ranging from management to marketing. It’s a record number of new tenured and tenure-track professors for the school.
In contrast to their reaction to gay rights or the war in Ukraine, relatively few companies have openly criticized the Supreme Court ruling ending a constitutional right to abortion. Alessandro Piazza, Assistant Professor of Strategic Management at Rice Business, writes for The Conversation.
Rice University will expand global education and research opportunities for its students and faculty with the opening of the Rice University Paris Center, which holds its ceremonial launch this week.
"Regardless of what the terms and conditions are or how good the offer is, just the fact that there's a sale signals that something different is happening," says Utpal Dholakia, marketing professor at Rice Business. "That's the core value of a sale, both from the marketer's and consumer's perspective."
Jing Zhou, the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management and Psychology at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, has been appointed deputy dean of academic affairs for the business school effective July 1. She succeeds Jeff Fleming, the Fayez Sarofim Vanguard Professor of Finance, who will complete a seven-year term as deputy dean this month.
Inflation is doing a number on the economy, and there is no end in sight. Rice Business marketing professor Utpal Dholakia says brands don’t usually shrink all of their items at once. You can still get a good deal if you buy a variation of the product that wasn’t downsized.
Celebrations are underway after Houston was named one of 16 host cities for the 2026 World Cup. "Building things Houstonians need and use every day, that's the easy money and the great way to leverage this opportunity for us," said Peter Rodriguez, dean of Rice Business.
The Houston Business Journal has named Rice University President David Leebron as the Lifetime Achievement Award recipient for the 2022 Diversity in Business Awards, which will be held June 23. Leebron became Rice's seventh president in 2004, and he will retire June 30. During that time, Rice has not only grown significantly but also became more diverse.
Amy Dittmar, a distinguished scholar with an extensive background in economics, finance and university administration, has been named the new provost of Rice University. She will be joined at Rice by her husband of 28 years, Robert “Bob” Dittmar, who will be a professor of finance at the Jones Graduate School of Business.
A little complexity helps companies raise prices without customers noticing. But at some point, it drives consumers away. Utpal Dholakia, the George R. Brown Professor of Marketing at Rice Business, explains.
