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Rice University’s Virani Undergraduate School of Business is introducing the Moody Business Scholars Program, a highly selective, cohort-based undergraduate experience designed to prepare high-achieving business students for careers in competitive industries.
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The 26th annual Women in Leadership Conference (WILC) welcomed hundreds of women to Rice Business’ McNair Hall for a day of networking, learning and inspiration for climbing the ladder in their careers. This year’s theme was “Pass the Torch: Together, We Will Carry the Flame.”
11 Mar
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Research from Rice Business professors John Barry, Bruce Carlin, and Alan Crane shows how firms use hurdle rates differently in practice than finance theory predicts.
9 Mar
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The impact of accelerators remains open to debate, according to research co-authored by Yael Hochberg, Rice University’s Ralph S. O’Connor Professor in Entrepreneurship. Some researchers have found accelerators help startups grow, attract venture capital and add a spark to the innovation ecosystem. Other researchers, however, found the effects on a young company’s performance are muted or even negative.
As the climate debate heats up ahead of the 2020 elections, the country’s oil and gas companies want to get in front of the curve. But they may be hampered by a longstanding culture of playing defense, according to an energy industry expert at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
Houstonians care disrupted because fewer hospital systems can bargain with more insurers. Vivian Ho is the Baker Institute Chair in Health Economics at Rice University and professor at Baylor College of Medicine
A new survey finds men are more willing to rack up credit card debt if Valentine’s Day gifts are involved. In fact, research shows some behaviors tend to reinforce people’s gender identity — and that includes Valentine’s Day gift-giving behavior, according to a marketing and customer relationships expert at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
“Trade wars aren’t worth it and this one wasn’t worth it, either,” Peter Rodriguez, dean of Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business told the editorial board. “It may have been faster, but we could have gotten here in much easier ways.”
Like dieting, though, self-deprivation from stuff is hard to sustain. Now Rice Business professor Utpal Dholakia and former Rice Business doctoral students Jihye Jung, now at the University of San Antonio, and Nivriti Chowdhry, now with Amazon, have devised an alternative. In four separate studies, the team found that it’s possible to redirect the urge to buy by reflecting on what we already have.
Astros general manager Jeff Luhnow and manager A.J. Hinch were fired by team owner Jim Crane Monday after Major League Baseball suspended them for a year each following an investigation that discovered Houston cheated using technology en route to winning the 2017 World Series.
Craving a cortado? Rice now has another option when it comes to getting caffeinated: Audrey’s, which is now open for business after a soft launch last semester.
The march toward gender equity in full-time MBA programs is experiencing what’s called halting progress. Analysis of a handful of schools outside the U.S. reveals gradual progress — but makes clear that U.S. schools are leading the way in the drive to achieve and maintain equal gender representation in MBA programs.
Rebellion Photonics, an oil and gas technology company co-founded in 2009 by Rice Business alumna Allison Lami Sawyer, was acquired by Honeywell. The company will become part of Honeywell's Safety and Productivity Solutions business and also will be used in Honeywell's Performance Materials and Technologies business to help manufacturers improve safety and compliance.
