In this episode, Dean Peter Rodriguez sits down with host Christine Dobbyn to reflect on the last few tumultuous years. He talks about the future of the business school, who his mentors are, and a new appointment that will give him a front row seat to what's happening in the economy.
Welcome to America’s most diverse city. Home to newcomers from around the globe, there’s no better place to live and launch. Think foodie heaven, off the grid culture, wildcatter innovation, sports, arts, culture and 38,394 acres of parks.
Graduate Entrepreneurship Program
Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine, 2020, 2021 & 2022
Full-Time MBA Program with The Most Minority Students in Top 25
Poets & Quants, 2020
Best MBA For Finance
Princeton Review, 2022
Best MBA For Consulting
Princeton Review, 2022
Prior to Rice, I started a career coaching business on top of my full-time job as a corporate tech recruiter. At Rice, I have been able to meet several folks who managed businesses outside of their "day jobs." I knew Rice is ranked #1 for its entrepreneurial program, but it was still so refreshing to meet people who share my same spirit of creating and innovating in business.
Full-Time MBA ‘22
The classes I have taken have taught me many new things that I have not been previously aware of. I have also made many new friends that I will cherish forever and continue to be friends with post-MBA.
Professional MBA '22
One of the things the MBA program has given me is confidence — the feeling that there’s nothing I can’t explore.
Executive MBA ‘21
Get an inside look as artist Kate Shepherd creates Rice Business’ stunning new wall painting in luminous shades of red and grey, a hypnotic visual connection to the architecture of McNair Hall’s octagonal atrium. The result, titled “Tricycle Red, Pelican Grey, etc., partial octagons,” is a work of art equal in boldness to the students of Rice Business.
Rice Business Wisdom is our online ideas magazine that features faculty research.
Based on research by Vikas Mittal
By Deborah Lynn Blumberg
Based on research by Siyu Yu
Successful business operations strategies are the foundation for growing and distributing a company’s products, services and profits in a post-pandemic world. Our growing operations management program is led by faculty who teach students to manage businesses confidently and effectively through design, planning, control, coordination and improvement of business processes.
Jing Zhou, the Mary Gibbs Jones Professor of Management and Psychology at Rice’s Jones Graduate School of Business, has been appointed deputy dean of academic affairs for the business school effective July 1. She succeeds Jeff Fleming, the Fayez Sarofim Vanguard Professor of Finance, who will complete a seven-year term as deputy dean this month.
Celebrations are underway after Houston was named one of 16 host cities for the 2026 World Cup. "Building things Houstonians need and use every day, that's the easy money and the great way to leverage this opportunity for us," said Peter Rodriguez, dean of Rice Business.
Amy Dittmar, a distinguished scholar with an extensive background in economics, finance and university administration, has been named the new provost of Rice University. She will be joined at Rice by her husband of 28 years, Robert “Bob” Dittmar, who will be a professor of finance at the Jones Graduate School of Business.
