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Rice Business Wisdom: 2024 Highlights

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Rice Business research isn’t just shaping academia through top journals like Organization Science, The Accounting Review, and the Journal of Financial Economics — it’s also making waves in leading outlets like Forbes, NPR and Harvard Business Review.

Here are some of the year’s top highlights of Rice Business research in the media:

Harvard Business Review
Safety Should Be a Performance Driver: It’s more than just a compliance issue. (Professor Vikas Mittal & Alessandro Piazza)

Fast Company
How grocery data can help assess credit worthiness: In general, buying healthier but less convenient food predicts responsible payment behaviors. (Professor Jung Youn Lee)

Wall Street Journal
Credit-Card Autopay Can Benefit Consumers (a Little): New research suggests nudging consumers to automatically pay off credit-card balances can get complicated. (Professor Benedict Guttman-Kenney)

Bloomberg
Upstarts Challenge a Foundation of Modern Investing: A Nobel laureate’s theory supports betting on cheaper stocks and sets a benchmark for money managers. But the numbers keep changing. How much does it matter? (Professor Robert Dittmar)

Chicago Booth Review
Could a Change to the Goodwill Rule Boost Private Equity?: Writing off the value of customer loyalty and human capital might shrink and change the M&A market. (Professor Stehan J. Huber)

Business Insider
Flexible morals: A key reason American voters support divisive misinformation: For many people, it’s easy to defend misinformation if they think it serves a larger truth. (Professor Minjae Kim)

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A conversation with Rice Business Professor Tolga Tezcan on how we can improve hospital operations and payment systems. 

Features

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Features

Meet a few of the undergrads who claimed their spot among our first class of business major graduates. 

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Lee Ann and Alex Butler are not only esteemed faculty at Rice Business, but also a married couple. They share insights from their personal lives and nearly three-decades-long journeys in academia.

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Health Policy | Features
What habits make America’s newcomers so healthy?
February 18
Investing | Peer-Reviewed Research
How institutional ownership affects payout.
February 12
Institutional Crisis | Expert Opinion
What questions should you ask when a faith institution fails you?
February 11
Management | Peer-Reviewed Research
Before you can fix a broken group dynamic, you need to understand how its members see each other — and themselves.
February 06
Leadership | Expert Opinion
Why hiring women for jobs left by abusive men gets everyone back on track.
February 05
Marketing | Peer-Reviewed Research
Want better results from your call to action? Give people a clear way to say no.
January 28
Reputation Management | Expert Opinion
What is behind the ongoing scandal first exposed decades ago?
January 23
Real Estate | Features
Why does a horde of housecats have their own tiny house?
January 22
Ethics | Peer-Reviewed Research
Employees who feel sad are more likely to carefully analyze extreme, unethical behavior than those who feel happy or disgusted.
January 14
Mind Your Business
How did we get so hooked on exclamation points?
January 14