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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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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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Investing | Peer-Reviewed Research
Why companies are actually doing investors a favor by not paying dividends.
February 05
Organizational Behavior | Peer-Reviewed Research
Our emotions affect our decision making more than we know.
January 29
Oil & Gas | Commentary
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
Careers | Peer-Reviewed Research
Star performers earn higher pay and receive faster promotion. But these perks tend to have a social cost.
January 25
Business and Political Influence | Peer-Reviewed Research
What happens when the highest leader in the country comes to call?
January 21
Technology | Expert Opinion
Businesses like technology as a way to reach audiences quickly and nimbly. What could go wrong?
January 21
Workplace Culture | Peer-Reviewed Research
Why fighting workplace discrimination of gay, lesbian and bisexual employees boosts business.
January 16
From the Dean | Commentary
Rice Business' Dean Peter Rodriguez on the power of presenting scientific research in plain language so important ideas are accessible to all.
January 08
Marketing | Peer-Reviewed Research
Marketing methodology helps marketers group customers by geography, psychological profile — and desire.
January 08
Startups | News Feed
Eating healthy can be difficult: A Rice Business alum may have a solution.
January 08