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Rice Business Wisdom: Celebrating 10 Years
A special anniversary issue dedicated to artificial intelligence and how it is reshaping the way we work, decide and lead.

AI | Accounting
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
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Customer Satisfaction | MarketingResearch links customer satisfaction to 12 measures of company performance, including customer metrics, accounting measures and stock market outcomes.23 Oct
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Work Motivation | Organizational BehaviorShannon 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
Three organizational behavior scholars on outgrowing familiar strengths, managing from the middle and navigating the limits of control.
25 Sep
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Credit & Lending | More Business Wisdom
U.S. consumers and businesses are now facing a future of more expensive borrowing.
16 Sep -
AI | More Business Wisdom
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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Institutional Investors | Finance
How did one court decision transform corporate ownership in America?
July 09
Comic Relief | Marketing
How creating a sense of disgust can unleash bad behavior.
July 06
Branding | More Business Wisdom
What happens when a brand we know (or think we know) and love turns out to be something altogether different?
July 05
Intellectual Property | Strategy
Is there a way to stop institutional leaks?
June 21
Acquisitions | Strategy
What happens to shareholders when a CEO fails to be named top dog?
June 17
Giving | More Business Wisdom
The best way to give when you’re not sure whom to trust.
June 11
Negotiations | Organizational Behavior
Does erratic behavior work in deal-making?
June 11
Careers | Organizational Behavior
Being “between jobs” can mean being in a wasteland, or a place of growth.
June 10
Corporate Social Responsibility | Strategy
Corporate responsibility shouldn’t just be about efficiency. A new framework asks businesses to consider the intrinsic value of the natural world — and act accordingly.
June 03
Forecasting | More Business Wisdom
An interview with Eric Berger, Houston-based meteorologist and local hero.
June 03