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The team - led by Noah Asher, a senior finance and economics major at UA Little Rock, who has previous experience and success working on startups and commercializing medical technology and who has previously worked with Trigeaud on past ventures - traveled to Rice University in Houston to compete in the prestigious Rice Business Plan Competition, the largest new venture competition in the world. “Out of 42 teams comprised of some of the top universities and smartest graduate students in the world, we finished in the top ten,” Asher says. “We are really happy with how we did, and I am extremely proud of our team.”

In a recent study, Rice Business professor Utpal Dholakia and colleagues René Algesheimer of the University of Zurich and Călin Gurău of GSCM-Montpellier Business School looked closely at what motivates remote teams and how to measure what they do. 

Halfway through my 73rd year, I often find myself wondering what my other selves would be like, and what and how they would be doing. By other selves, I mean the different persons I have been at various points in my life.

UC-Davis is now one of only a handful of six-figure online MBAs with Carnegie Mellon, UNC, the University of Southern California, Rice University, and George Washington University. The other top-ranked option in California from USC’s Marshall School of Business now costs a total of $106,197

If being disliked isn’t bad enough, there’s a second, less discussed downside for women who establish a reputation for competence: They’re often considered less inspirational. For a 2009 Harvard Business Review study, Herminia Ibarra of the London Business School and Rice University’s Otilia Obodaru interviewed women business leaders and found that, like Warren, many had built a reputation for competence.

Rice University's student startup competition awarded a total of $2.9 million to 42 competitors over the weekend at its annual business plan competition.