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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.

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.
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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
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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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A new mathematical model can help transplant centers make decisions about when to move forward with a matching donor and when to wait.
Bellwether companies play a surprising role.
What kinds of patents tend to be accepted as collateral?
How well-placed reminders help consumers build sustainable habits.
“Social mandates” can make a company’s response seem more genuine.
It matters how we talk about social and economic disparities.
Opinion by Professor Vikas Mittal
Opinion by Professor Vikas Mittal
“Career portfolioing” helps workers have agency over their jobs.