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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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Book Excerpt | Mind Your Business
Read an excerpt form Tony Gorry's book, Memory's Encouragement.
January 10
Corporate Lobbying | Peer-Reviewed Research
Is it time to treat corporations’ political activity as an academic field?
January 09
Small Business | Features
Food means belonging and feeling of home in immigrant business.
January 04
Workplace Creativity | Commentary
Are we are paying too much to quell our fear of boredom?
December 18
Workplace Trends | News Feed
If sitting is the new smoking, has standing made a stand?
December 15
Cultural Literacy | Features
What Rubi's Quinceañera can teach the U.S. about Latinos.
December 14
Bankruptcy | Peer-Reviewed Research
Interest rates have outsized effects on final value of a bankrupt company.
December 13
Urban Renewal | Features
How do you create more public parks? By bringing in private partners.
December 06
Business School Rankings | News Feed
Rankings, though illusory in many ways, can make a difference for business schools.
December 02
Commodities | Peer-Reviewed Research
Weather-sensitive commodity markets are buffeted by important information 24/7.
December 01
