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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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Organizations trying to create cultures of innovation increasingly turn to teams of employees instead of individuals, but there have been few studies on how to build teams for best results. Now a new paper incorporating decades of research offers insights on the best way to design innovative teams.
Tuition will be $66,000 for students in the full-time MBA program at Rice Business. Tuition for other programs will be $57,000 for the Master of Accounting, $113,400 for the online MBA@Rice and the Evening MBA for Professionals, $120,000 for the Weekend MBA for Professionals and $135,000 for the Executive MBA.
Our career development office had record highs with 97% offers by three months post-graduation and a median base salary of $135,000. Rice Business students have a 0.32 debt-to-income ratio two years after graduation, one of the top 10 lowest ratios among business schools.
In a recent op-ed piece, Douglas Schuler, Associate Professor of Business and Public Policy and Laura Marie Edinger-Schons, Professor of Sustainable Business at the University of Mannheim in Germany, explained that there are three major factors driving companies to speak out on employee activism.
If the U.S. moved forward with creating its own digital dollar, banks, as we know them, could be a thing of the past. "It would be probably as simple as opening up an app, and you can have some banking services, including loans," said Peter Rodriguez, dean at Rice University's School of Business.
The latest QS World University Rankings has named the top business schools for an online MBA. Rice Business came in at the number twelve spot.
Many companies in the U.S. and elsewhere have been quick to sever ties to Russia – going well beyond applying the sanctions ordered by their governments.
Life science investors, leaders and innovators gathered at the Jones Graduate School of Business to discuss Houston’s role in the future of health care, medical technology innovation and life science commercialization during the 10th annual Texas Life Science Forum.
Shell, BP & ExxonMobil are pulling out of Russia even though it means steep financial hits for them. Rice Business Professor Yan Anthea Zhang explores how Western energy companies are recalculating the cost of doing business in Russia for The Conversation.
The 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC), hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jones Graduate School of Business, will be back in person and on campus April 7-9.
