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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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Leadership Succession | Peer-Reviewed Research
Company performance and a female CEO's job survival can suffer if her predecessor was male.
October 21
Workplace Psychology | Peer-Reviewed Research
Throw out assumptions to better understand the impact of emotions on the workplace.
October 19
Workplace Psychology | Peer-Reviewed Research
Do your work clothes influence how well you do your job?
October 19
Municipal Bonds | Peer-Reviewed Research
America's most corrupt states have to pay more to lure bond buyers.
October 16
Nonprofit Recognition | Peer-Reviewed Research
Recognizing donors does not always lead to increased giving.
October 07
Workplace Psychology | Peer-Reviewed Research
Where people locate their sense of self influences their decision making.
October 04
Market Game Theory | Peer-Reviewed Research
The profit potential of shrinking markets is rooted in how firms respond to competitor actions in the marketplace.
September 29
Healthcare | Peer-Reviewed Research
A study of the 2007 Avandia controversy reveals how specialists and generalists responded differently to contradictory information.
September 29
Product Marketing | Peer-Reviewed Research
How do you sell a product that’s hard to use?
September 29
Virtual Communities | Peer-Reviewed Research
How do customer communities really create value for firms?
December 04
