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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Investment Fraud | Accounting

Boiler Room

What you absolutely need to know about microcap stock scams.

November 12

Strategy | Organizational Behavior

Every Company Runs on Competing Stories

Organizations sustain multiple, clashing narratives at once. Leaders who track the unofficial versions, instead of suppressing them, can spot risk earlier and find clearer paths to real change.

November 11