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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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Cultural Literacy | More Business Wisdom
What Rubi's Quinceañera can teach the U.S. about Latinos.
December 14
Bankruptcy | More Business Wisdom
Interest rates have outsized effects on final value of a bankrupt company.
December 13
Urban Renewal | More Business Wisdom
How do you create more public parks? By bringing in private partners.
December 06
Business School Rankings | More Business Wisdom
Rankings, though illusory in many ways, can make a difference for business schools.
December 02
Commodities | Finance
In weather-sensitive commodity markets, prices fluctuate even when trading is closed. That gives researchers new evidence that information flow plays a major role in volatility.
December 01
Subprime Mortgage | Accounting
Limited competition may have fanned the flames of the 2008 financial crisis.
November 27
Energy Policy | More Business Wisdom
A new perspective on energy and politics.
November 20
Personal Finance | Marketing
Research suggests that people save more when they see the future as a recurring cycle, rather than a distant destination.
November 14
Travel Trends | More Business Wisdom
The long and winding road: Travel joins the slow revolution.
November 10
Socioeconomic Status | Marketing
Since 1982 it has become harder and harder to stay in the middle class.
October 29