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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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Technology | Strategy
How a Rice Business professor found a life-saving technology.
April 30
Customer Service | Strategy
Customer narratives boost service, prompt innovation and feed a healthy corporate culture.
April 29
Gig Economy | More Business Wisdom
Grit Grocery was conceived by a Rice Business student while taking classes.
April 28
Marketing | Marketing
Buying American is not just a matter of price and quality.
April 19
Competition | Organizational Behavior
What happens when food trucks mix business, peer pressure and high standards?
April 18
Peer-to-Peer Lending | Marketing
Personal narratives in loan applications — however unverifiable — can sway lenders, lower interest rates, and even predict repayment behavior.
April 18
Workplace | Organizational Behavior
What happens when the person providing your service feels empowered?
April 16
Reputation | Strategy
How United got in a PR mess. And how it could get out.
April 11
Nonprofit Management | More Business Wisdom
Not everyone with an MBA follows a corporate career path.
April 03
Conversations | More Business Wisdom
A conversation with Alison Weaver, Executive Director of the new Moody Center for The Arts.
April 03