Letter From the Dean

With every new program, student, staff and faculty member, I see incredible promise for the school and for the businesses and organizations our alumni will contribute to and lead.

Throughout the past six years, the one constant has been strategic growth. We’ve grown steadily while raising our standards in order to improve our degree programs and our scholarly impact on the world of business education. We’ve navigated issues like COVID and Hurricane Harvey and still managed to increase enrollment and add new programs to now include an undergraduate major, a Ph.D. in organizational behavior and a Hybrid MBA, and we’ve made plans to expand McNair Hall too.

While the final design for McNair is still being refined, we hope to break ground for the addition in early 2024 in order to accommodate our growth in enrollment along with the incoming faculty and staff who will support those new students.

With every new program, student, staff and faculty member, I see incredible promise for the school and for the businesses and organizations our alumni will contribute to and lead. It is through this magazine that we get to share that promise with you. Once again, I’m proud of the stories we are able to tell.

I hope you enjoy this issue and feel proud of your connection to Rice Business and to all the incredible people who teach, learn and work at your school.

— Peter