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Rice Business professor Scott Sonenshein was recently featured on the Dare to Lead podcast with Brene Brown. They discussed the pandemic, the racial reckoning, and work—specifically, what it means for people going to the office for the first time, or staying hybrid, or working from home. 

Rice University brought back its international student startup competition to its in-person format in a big way, giving out nearly $2 million in investment and in-kind prizes to over a dozen student teams.

LIDROTEC, a student startup from RWTH Aachen University in Germany that aims to increase production in the semiconductor industry, took home the grand prize at the 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC).

Last fall, the Jones Graduate School of Business added to its offerings for undergraduates by launching a business major. Rice undergraduates in the Classes of 2024 and 2025 can declare a business major with either a finance or management concentration.

Thinking of getting a tattoo but worried about consequences on the job ? Maybe you shouldn’t be so concerned: New research co-authored by Rice Business professor Mikki Hebl finds that customers don’t necessarily look down on employees with tattoos – and in some settings, ink is seen as a plus.

What matters more when investing in a startup? Expertise or self-presentation? Research from Rice Business professor Alessandro Piazza, doctoral candidate Sung Hun (Brian) Chung, and Daniel Reese provides an analysis of more than 4,000 firms, their founders, and their funders.

During 2017-21, Fortune 1000 companies paid senior executives more than $180 billion to develop and execute strategy. But execution requires that senior executives come to agreement on that strategy, and our research shows that this doesn’t always happen. Rice Business professor Vikas Mittal explains.