Rice Business Wisdom

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
Corporate Reputation | Strategy

The New Rules of Corporate Reputation

As corporate value has become more intangible, leaders have less control over how their organizations are perceived. Anastasiya Zavyalova explains what that means for reputation strategy.

28 Aug

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Rethinking SEC Rules | Finance

Experiments In Short Selling

Changing short-selling rules alters stock prices and company choices.

January 26

Small Business | More Business Wisdom

When Love Is Not Enough

An adored small business goes on the block, and no buyers care.

January 08

Healthcare | More Business Wisdom

Money And Medicine

Could the MD/MBA be a first step in healing a broken health care system?

January 07

Investment Banking | Finance

Long-Term Partners

Long-term relationships between investors and underwriters influence pricing and trading.

January 07

Workplace Discrimination | Organizational Behavior

Weight Bias Isn’t Just a Women’s Issue

Research shows that obese men face subtle but consequential discrimination in retail settings — both as job seekers and as customers.

December 14

Business Partnerships | Strategy

The Hidden Work Behind Successful Business Alliances

The strongest business alliances are built not just on strategic fit but on trust, informal ties and ongoing relationship work.

December 14

Rethinking SEC Rules | Accounting

When the SEC Gave Wall Street a 15-Minute Edge

Before Reg FD, select traders could buy early access to corporate press releases through the financial media. Research shows that head start moved markets long before ordinary investors saw the news.

December 13