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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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Subprime Mortgage | Peer-Reviewed Research
Limited competition may have fanned the flames of the 2008 financial crisis.
November 27
Energy Policy | Commentary
A new perspective on energy and politics.
November 20
Personal Finance | Peer-Reviewed Research
Seeing life as a cycle makes savings rise in a line.
November 14
Travel Trends | Features
The long and winding road: Travel joins the slow revolution.
November 10
Socioeconomic Status | Peer-Reviewed Research
Since 1982 it has become harder and harder to stay in the middle class.
October 29
Small Business | Features
Competition never tasted so good: Gourmet food truck owners band together to succeed.
October 24
Ethics | Peer-Reviewed Research
Businesses need to nurture leaders who know the right thing to do — and do it
October 12
Leadership | Peer-Reviewed Research
Why you should manage employees as if they’re artists.
October 10
Bank Regulations | Peer-Reviewed Research
Strong external governance makes top managers more prone to cheat.
October 04
Online Communities | Peer-Reviewed Research
Firms that sponsor online communities should develop strategies to safeguard vulnerable consumers.
September 29