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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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Rice Business professor Emily Prinsloo comments on dynamic pricing and its recent use.
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The Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and Rice Business have announced the 42 student teams that will compete in the 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition, which returns to an in-person format on the Rice University campus in April.
Rice MBA Ope Amosu recently opened his fast-casual restaurant ChòpnBlọk in Post Houston, the renovated Barbara Jordon Post Office downtown.
“For an analyst or investor, it’s really easy to look at a company’s net income,” said Leila Peyravan, an assistant professor at Rice Business. "But there are a couple of issues with that.” One issue is that net income includes line items that are highly dependent on management’s financing and accounting decisions — but are unrelated to a company’s core business operations.
“Fortune 100s and 500s build and better one another and it’s great for people to associate us in Houston with great companies,” said Rice Business dean Peter Rodriguez.
A new wall painting by Kate Shepherd has joined the Rice University's permanent collection of public art. “Tricycle Red, Pelican Gray etc., partial octagons” was installed over a week in December in the lobby of McNair Hall at the Jones Graduate School of Business.
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.
Most schools in the Poets&Quants top 25 reported stable or growing salaries, and every one of the 23 schools for which data is available reported jumps — sometimes dramatic — in both job offers and acceptances. Rice Business had the biggest salary increase, a more-than-6% jump to $131,384.
Angel investors and venture capitalists value appearance more than experience, according to data collated by Rice Business assistant professor Alessandro Piazza, doctoral candidate Brian Chung and Dortmund University’s Daniel Reese.
More than 70 teams from over 40 universities participated to an audience of nearly 4,000 in the 2022 John Lewis Case Competition. Rice Business hosted the semifinals in December 2021.
The flexibility and low barrier to entry of short-term jobs gives would-be entrepreneurs fallback opportunities that reduce their financial risk, argues Yael Hochberg, professor in entrepreneurship and finance at Rice Business.
