Access to gig economy may spur small business creation, study finds
January 31, 2022
Access to the gig economy may help facilitate the creation of new businesses, according to a new study. The gig (or short-term job) market is often more transitory than the traditional freelancing market. The flexibility and low barrier to entry of these jobs gives would-be entrepreneurs fallback opportunities that reduce their financial risk, argues Yael Hochberg, professor in entrepreneurship and finance at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business.
Acting like an expert even without experience can help secure venture capital funding, study finds
January 25, 2022
A report from Alessandro Piazza, assistant professor of strategic management at Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business; Brian Chung, doctoral candidate at Rice Business; and Dortmund University’s Daniel Reese analyzed data on 4,190 new ventures and their founders. They found that “expertise signaling” by founders — self-presentation that might not align with reality when it comes to their experience, skills or background — played a significant role in their companies' success.
People, papers and presentations for Dec. 20, 2021
December 20, 2021
A paper co-authored by Vikas Mittal, the J. Hugh Liedtke Professor of Management at Rice's Jones Graduate School of Business, was named a finalist for the American Marketing Association-EBSCO-Responsible Research for Business Management Award for Responsible Research in Marketing.
People, papers and presentations for Dec. 6, 2021
December 6, 2021
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas has appointed Peter Rodriguez, dean of the Jones Graduate School of Business, to its Houston Branch board of directors, and assistant professor of chemistry Julian West has won a Thieme Chemistry Journals Award for early career synthetic chemists.
Audubon project wins D2K Showcase
December 3, 2021
Students whose computer vision system can classify birds by species and count them from the air won the Data to Knowledge Lab Showcase.
Rice Business ranked No. 1 for entrepreneurship by Princeton Review
November 16, 2021
Rice Business is ranked the No. 1 graduate entrepreneurship program in the United States for 2022 by the Princeton Review and Entrepreneur magazine. This is Rice Business’ third No. 1 ranking in a row, its sixth year in the top three and the 13th year in which it has ranked in the top 10 on this prestigious list.
Conservative customers are more satisfied than liberal ones, according to new study
November 11, 2021
Across industries, conservatives are more satisfied than liberals with the products and services they consume, according to a study of more than 326,000 U.S. consumers by an international research team from Rice University, the Catholic University of Portugal, Boston College, the University of Texas at San Antonio and Korea University.
