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Angel investors and venture capitalists value appearance more than experience, according to data collated by Rice Business assistant professor Alessandro Piazza, doctoral candidate Brian Chung and Dortmund University’s Daniel Reese.
Universities, for their part, also want to ensure that their forays into online programs are consistent with their reputations. Peter Rodriguez, dean of the Jesse H. Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University, told me of Rice’s online M.B.A., “This is the first online degree at Rice University, [so branding] is a big concern. You want to handle it well as you march into this new territory.”
Poets&Quants’ Professor of the Week, Erik Dane of Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business, has studied epiphanies and the role of nonconscious thought in decision making. His paper, “Suddenly Everything Became Clear: How People Make Sense of Epiphanies Surrounding Their Work and Careers,” published in the journal Academy of Management Discoveries, attempts to uncover how people understand and utilize their epiphanies.
One of the top questions we get about the online MBA student experience is how do you become part of the Rice Business community if you’re taking classes solely online?
The documented increase in accidents appears to persist and even increase over time, and that rate has stayed steady through weekdays, weeknights, weekend days and weekend nights, according to John Barrios, assistant professor at Chicago Booth, and Yale V. Hochberg and Hanyi Yi, both of Rice University, in the working paper, “The Cost of Convenience: Ridehailing and Traffic Fatalities.”
"The thrill of using a coupon and getting a better deal than other consumers takes precedence and shoppers lose sight of the actual cost," Utpal Dholakia, a professor of marketing at Rice University, wrote in Psychology Today.