Rice Business Wisdom

AI | Accounting

The Right Moves at the Right Time

During her Rice Business Ph.D. (Accounting ’26), Marcela Aguilar built a generative AI mentor called Mia that gives microentrepreneurs what big companies take for granted: a thinking partner for every business decision.

6 Nov

Customer Satisfaction | Marketing

Customer Satisfaction Predicts More About Company Performance Than Any Other Known Measure

Research links customer satisfaction to 12 measures of company performance, including customer metrics, accounting measures and stock market outcomes.

23 Oct
Work Motivation | Organizational Behavior

What Happens When a Calling Becomes Unsustainable?

Shannon Sciarappa studies how people engage with work after leaving a profession they once considered a “calling.” Here’s how leaders can help make career passion sustainable.

9 Oct

Leadership | Organizational Behavior

Lessons on Leadership From Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey”

Three organizational behavior scholars on outgrowing familiar strengths, managing from the middle and navigating the limits of control.

25 Sep

Credit & Lending | More Business Wisdom

Borrowing Is Set To Get Even Pricier

U.S. consumers and businesses are now facing a future of more expensive borrowing.

16 Sep
AI | More Business Wisdom

7 Questions Our Faculty Are Asking About AI

Rice Business faculty are exploring big questions about AI and how it’s reshaping business, technology and the classroom.

11 Sep

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Anastasiya Zavyalova

Jing Zhou

Kerry Back

Marketing | More Business Wisdom

Bending The Rules

Sometimes it's right to do the wrong thing.

April 13

Corporate Tax Structure | Accounting

Hidden Costs

Avoiding taxes can have unintended consequences.

April 06

Human Behavior | Organizational Behavior

Want People To Follow the Rules? Stop Explaining Them

The more perceived distrust people feel, the less likely they are to follow the rules.

March 30

Organizational Behavior | Strategy

Chain Reaction

How protest tactics end up influencing protesters.

March 23

Corporate Investment | Strategy

The Paradox of Successful Overseas Investments

The very traits that make global growth possible — size, age and ownership — can also make cultural distance harder to overcome.

March 16

Protests | Organizational Behavior

When Moral Outrage Spreads Online, Protest Violence Becomes More Likely

Spikes in moralizing social media posts can help predict when protests turn violent and that outrage becomes most dangerous when it’s actively validated by like-minded others.

March 02