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We at Poets&Quants–24/7 Wall St. have written plenty about the high cost of the MBA degree at the top schools. But what about highly ranked schools where the price tag is more affordable? But the fact is, you have to go well down the ranking to get into the realm of anyone’s idea of “affordable.” Only three schools ranked by P&Q in the top 25 find their way into the “bottom” 20 for cost: No. 24 Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business is eighth overall at $116,530; No. 25 Indiana University Kelley School of Business is 16th overall at $137,910; and No. 18 Texas-Austin McCombs School of Business is 20th, at $146,908.

Two Northwestern startups were awarded a combined total of over $500,000 in the Rice Business Plan Competition earlier this month, according to a Northwestern news release. Rhaeos, a medical device company founded by engineering Prof. John Rogers and the department of neurological surgery, and BrewBike, a student-run coffee company, placed fourth and sixth in the competition, respectively.

Psychologist and Rice University professor Erik Dane finds that the more expertise and experience people gain, the more entrenched they become in a particular way of viewing the world. Compared to novices, experts are overconfident in their ability to understand problems outside their expertise, leading them to develop worse solutions. 

Medical device company Rhaeos and BrewBike, a student-run coffee company, brought home big honors — and funding — in the 2019 Rice Business Plan Competition hosted by Rice University earlier this month.

“An IPO doesn’t create a new company,” says Alexander Butler, professor of finance at the Jones School at Rice University. “It does, however, generate significant liquidity for the firm, for employees, and for other shareholders who go forth into the community to spend their new cash.”

Email is one of the biggest sources of workplace overload, taking a toll on our well-being and overall productivity.

Companies that go public on the stock market provide an economic boost to the local communities where they’re based, according to new research from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business. After businesses file for an initial public offering (IPO), ZIP codes close to the company’s headquarters see certain home prices and consumer spending rise, according to researchers led by Alexander Butler, professor of finance at the Jones School. 

Nashville-based SafeStamp, which created a nanotech indicator to seal medicine packaging and allow consumers to verify its authenticity, was offered $55,000 as the winner of the fifth annual Veterans Business Battle at Rice University.

Vince Kaminski is a professor in the practice of energy management at Rice University’s Jesse Jones Graduate School of Business. In this podcast he examines the recent spate of commodity defaults, looking at why they occurred and whether enough has been put in place to avert future calamities.

The team - led by Noah Asher, a senior finance and economics major at UA Little Rock, who has previous experience and success working on startups and commercializing medical technology and who has previously worked with Trigeaud on past ventures - traveled to Rice University in Houston to compete in the prestigious Rice Business Plan Competition, the largest new venture competition in the world. “Out of 42 teams comprised of some of the top universities and smartest graduate students in the world, we finished in the top ten,” Asher says. “We are really happy with how we did, and I am extremely proud of our team.”