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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.
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Indra Nooyi (center), former chairman and CEO of PepsiCo, was the John L. Weinberg Distinguished Speaker at the Weinberg Center’s 2019 Corporate Governance Symposium. Joining Nooyi were, left to right, Weinberg Center Associate Director Ann Mule, Weinberg Center Director Charles M. Elson, UD President Dennis Assanis and College of Arts and Sciences Interim Dean John Pelesko.
The Artemis Fund recently launched to provide seed money and Series A financing to women-led companies. Its first $100,000 award will be given at the Rice Business Plan Competition held April 4 through April 6.
I recently made a donation on a friend’s GoFundMe page. I paused over the box to hide my name before clicking it. Then as I finished up, the website asked me if I wanted to share my donation on Facebook. I clicked “skip.” To study this phenomenon, I teamed up with two other marketing scholars, Vikas Mittal at Rice University and Karl Aquino at the University of British Columbia.
Sitting on a panel, he told conference attendees that Rice had not put an emphasis on bolstering innovation and entrepreneurialism outside of the university in the past.
Houston's Noble Energy will take the lead on exploring the offshore oil and gas potential of Colombia with Royal Dutch Shell. (No quote from Bill Arnold)
A team of business students from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock has been selected as one of 42 teams from some of the world’s top universities who will compete for more than $1.5 million in prizes at the Rice Business Plan Competition April 4-6.
As a cloud of toxic darkness hovered above, spokeswoman Alice Richardson was asked if the Intercontinental Terminals Co. would apologize to all of the residents of Deer Park for the petrochemical fire that raged for almost four days, releasing a seemingly endless plume of noxious smoke that would stretch hundreds of miles in the sky.
Williams and fellow researchers Julia George-Jones, a Ph.D. student at the University of Texas at Austin, and Mikki Hebl, a professor at Rice University, examined the role that appearance might play in determining who is thought to have math or STEM ability.
Concerns are mounting about slowing US economic growth overall, but Austin's latest unemployment figures signal the local…
Twenty veteran-owned businesses will participate in the annual Veterans Business Battle held at Rice University on April 12-13.