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Rice Business Wisdom: 2024 Highlights
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Our Faculty in the News
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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Mergers | Strategy
After firms merge, how does the new company's practices affect outcomes?
February 19
Education | Marketing
Public school parents are consumers — and they demand safety.
February 19
Virtual Communities | Marketing
How to help online communities love your company.
February 12
Pricing | Marketing
When high prices attract consumers and low prices repel them.
February 11
Technology | More
Facebook recently invented a new unit of time, the “flick.” What time units will they launch next?
February 05
Investing | Finance
Why companies are actually doing investors a favor by not paying dividends.
February 05
Oil & Gas | More
What's the forecast for the U.S. energy industry and its effect on our global competitiveness? Looks sunny, reports Rice Business Professor Bill Arnold.
January 29
Organizational Behavior | Organizational Behavior
Our emotions affect our decision making more than we know.
January 29
Careers | Organizational Behavior
Star performers earn higher pay and receive faster promotion. But these perks tend to have a social cost.
January 25
Business and Political Influence | Strategy
What happens when the highest leader in the country comes to call?
January 21
