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Rice Business professor David Zhang explains how low mortgage rates are keeping homeowners from selling, contributing to the housing market’s ongoing “sideways struggle” as rates remain elevated.
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Rice Business professor Vikas Mittal says Buc-ee’s has developed deep customer commitment, with visits becoming an emotional and habitual ritual. He predicts loyalty will grow as Buc-ee’s expands nationwide.
17 Aug
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Congratulations to Kathleen Perley, recognized by Poets & Quants among the 2026 Best and Brightest Executive MBAs.
14 Aug
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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.
This year's Best & Brightest honors 51 students from 275 online MBA programs who represent the best of graduate business education. Three Rice Business only MBA students are featured: Brad Simmons, Arwa Hasanali and Mark Watson.
This week's roundup of Houston innovators includes recent Rice Business alumna Kelly Avant. "[Venture capital] is an awesome way to shape the future in a more positive way because you literally get to wire money to the most innovative thinkers, who are building solutions to the world’s problems,"
Take a look at some of the most promising MBAs from the Class of 2023 at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business.
New research from Rice Business Ph.D. student Sung Hun (Brian) Chung and colleagues shows that the more CEOs take credit for positive results, the more they will be credited for a company's shortcomings -- whether they are at fault or not.
If the social cost of carbon were a tax paid by consumers, gas would cost 50 cents more per gallon--but it has no direct effect on the price of gas. Instead, it influences government policy & investments, write Rice Business lecturer Jim Krane & Baker Institute fellow Mark Finley.
Aziz Gilani, a Rice Business lecturer and general partner and managing director at the Houston-based Mercury Fund, was one of 32 industry leaders and experts named to the advisory committee by Commerce Secretary Gina M. Raimondo.
It’s no exaggeration to say that Indian and Chinese students are essential to both the academic and financial health of universities in the United States. The same is true of graduate business education. Rice Business has the third highest percentage of Indian students in the U.S. at 50%.
Nine energy startups from across the country were recognized as the most promising in a pitch competition during the Offshore Technology Conference earlier this month. The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship staged its annual pitch competition at the Ion in Midtown.
