Rice Business
What It Amounts To
A lab, a fund, a club, and the state's ETA conference, all run out of one school.
At a Glance
- Courses
- 1 named course, below.
- Club
- The Enterprise Acquisition Club, which exists to teach the path rather than to place people in finance.
- Money
- An acquisitions fund with named investment partners, aimed at the deal rather than the search.
- Conference
- The Texas ETA Conference each autumn, in its fourth year in 2026.
The Classes
- Enterprise Acquisition
Who teaches and leads it
- Al Danto, senior lecturer in entrepreneurship, who advises the lab
- Don Porr and Kyle Fletcher, owners of the companies they bought, who advise alongside him
What Else It Runs
- An acquisitions lab that runs as an intensive in a final term and stays open after graduation.
- An acquisitions fund with named investment partners, for the purchase itself.
Open to readers outside the school
- A conference written for searchers, investors, operators, lenders and advisers rather than for students alone.
Where to Look
Other Schools
Stanford GSBHarvard Business SchoolChicago BoothCase Western WeatherheadUVA DardenKelloggWhartonDartmouth TuckUT Austin McCombsMIT SloanIndiana KelleyWashU OlinDuke FuquaGeorgetown McDonoughColumbia Business SchoolNYU SternYale SOM
The Intern & Job Board carries the programmes that pay a salary to search, and Investor Match the firms that fund one. What a student group runs on is in the club kit.