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Aurign from Georgia State University in Atlanta rose to the top in the 2020 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC) hosted June 17-19 by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business.
The competition kicks off June 17 with the Mercury Fund Elevator Pitch competition, a fast-paced, 60-second glimpse of all 42 startups. Round 1, set for June 18, will feature 10-minute pitches from each startup followed by a Q&A session with expert judges, and seven winners will advance to the live finals June 19.
The Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University has added nine faculty members with expertise ranging from management to marketing. It’s a record number of new tenured and tenure-track professors for the school.
With the Atlantic hurricane season beginning June 1, during the global coronavirus pandemic, Rice University experts are available to discuss a wide variety of storm-related topics with reporters. Terry Hemeyer, adjunct professor in Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, can discuss crisis management and communication challenges that communities, the public, corporations and government entities face in times of disaster.
The magic number is nine at UC-Berkeley Haas School of Business, Yale School of Management, and Rice University Jones Graduate School of Business, each of which have announced that number of new professors will join their faculty for the 2022-2023 academic year.
A pair of Rice MBA students are using their business skills to give medical staff and the economy a boost amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Coco Ma and Kathleen Harcourt have created a nonprofit organization, #SnacksForMedStaff, that delivers free meals to medical staff who are treating patients infected with the virus.
