People, papers and presentations for July 25, 2022
July 25, 2022
Kunal Sachdeva, assistant professor of finance at the Jones Graduate School of Business, and his team won second place and $10,000 Canadian dollars (about $7,770) in the International Centre for Pension Management’s 2022 Call for Research for their paper titled “The Real Effects of Environmental Activist Investing.”
Ten new professors join Rice Business
July 6, 2022
The Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University has added ten faculty members with expertise ranging from management to marketing. It’s a record number of new tenured and tenure-track professors for the school.
Rice Business Plan Competition announces 2022 teams
February 23, 2022
The 2022 Rice Business Plan Competition (RBPC), hosted by the Rice Alliance for Technology and Entrepreneurship and the Jones Graduate School of Business, will be back in person and on campus April 7-9.
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.