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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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Social Media | Marketing
There’s not enough reliable data about adolescent e-cigarette consumption. So, these researchers turned to Instagram.
July 23
Accounting | Accounting
The difference is in the way trading takes place on each type of market.
July 10
Education | Marketing
Putting students and families at the center of strategy will optimize resources and improve academic outcomes.
June 17
Technology | Strategy
Temporary gatherings — like conferences and hackathons — are essential to attracting third-party developers.
June 07
Status | Finance
Delaware's low-number tags yield astronomical prices, revealing the premium people will pay for status symbols.
May 25
Consumer Behavior | Marketing
The best solutions help consumers achieve their goals and make access to reusable bags easier.
May 10
Voter Behavior | Organizational Behavior
American voters hold opposing politicians to strict standards of factuality but support their favorite politicians as long as their statements express a “deeper truth” they support.
April 16
Strategy | Strategy
In emerging markets, pricing — not reputation — drives the partnership between underwriter and IPO.
April 08
Crisis Resilience | Organizational Behavior
Three critical leadership strategies that helped two prominent symphonies transform during the pandemic.
March 18
Accounting | Accounting
It's common for companies to “opinion shopping” the value of an asset. It's also risky.
March 06
