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Rice University today introduced the Rice Biotech Launch Pad, a Houston-based accelerator focused on expediting the translation of the university’s health and medical technology discoveries into cures. Yael Hochberg, head of the Rice Entrepreneurship Initiative and the Ralph S. O'Connor Professor of Finance and Entrepreneurship, is on the accelerator’s founding advisory council.

September 12
In The Media

A new initiative from Rice University is launching with an ambitious goal — to take biotech innovations from concept to clinical trials in five years or less. The founding advisory council includes Rice Business professor Yael Hochberg.

September 12
In The Media

Vikas Mittal, the J. Hugh Liedtke Professor of Marketing at Rice Business, writes an opinion piece for the Houston Chronicle about the administrative requirements that can weigh down teachers and principals.

September 08
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Can artificial intelligence (AI) select job candidates as well — or better — than traditional methods? A new, four-year study from the National Science Foundation seeks to find out. Fred Oswald, the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences and a Rice Business professor, is a co-principal investigator of the study.

September 05
In The Media

Rice Business professor Michelle “Mikki” Hebl was awarded the Advancing Women in Leadership award by the diversity, equity and inclusion division of the Academy of Management, acknowledging her contributions to education to help the development of women in leadership.

September 05
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The 20th Annual Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum will see industry leaders showcase energy tech innovations for the shift toward a more sustainable, reliable and lower carbon future on Sept. 21 at Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business.

August 31
In The Media

Move over, engineers — there’s a new major in town. According to the Office of Academic Advising, 26.7 percent of new students are interested in the business major, surpassing all other potential majors.

August 30
In The Media

Whether it's the cost of a sandwich or a gallon of gas, the behavioral economics principle of reference prices shape our views of inflation. Rice Business professor Utpal Dholakia shares his knowledge on the subject.

August 25
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Renewable Energy Alliance Houston (REAL Houston) and Rice Business Executive Education hosted the second annual Renewable Energy Leadership Conference Aug. 22 on Rice’s campus to explore the impacts of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) one year after it was signed into law.

August 25
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Michelle “Mikki” Hebl , the Martha and Henry Malcolm Lovett Professor of Psychological Sciences and professor at Rice Business, is the 2023 recipient of the Advancing Women in Leadership Award from the Academy of Management (AOM).

August 22