Owl Have You Know
The Rice Business Podcast
Owl Have You Know is Rice Business’ podcast created to share the experiences of alumni, faculty, students and other members of our business community – real stories of belonging, failing, rebounding and, ultimately, succeeding. During meaningful conversations, we dive deep into how each guest has built success through troubles and triumphs before, during and after they set foot in McNair Hall.
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We release new episodes every other Wednesday.
Recipient of the 2024 Communicator Award of Distinction
We're proud to announce that our podcast received the 2024 Award of Distinction (Individual Episodes - Business) from the Academy of Interactive & Visual Arts (AIVA). This honor is made possible by our dedicated hosts, Maya Pomroy '22 and Scott Gale '19, and the generous guests who tell their stories. We're grateful to AIVA and those who were critical to OHYK's early success: Rice Business external relations team, the alumni board, and past hosts Christine Dobbyn '20 and David Droogleever '12.
Check Out A Special Episode
Innovating Out of a Crisis feat. Professor Scott Sonenshein & John Mangum
Eager to learn how organizations can innovate their way out of a crisis? You may be surprised that the key to this comes from an arts organization. Tune into a special live recording of our podcast, with John Mangum, the executive director/CEO of the Houston Symphony, and Scott Sonenshein, the Henry Gardiner Symonds Professor of Management – Organizational Behavior at Rice Business and a New York Times bestselling author.
Following their conversation, musicians from the Houston Symphony perform Fanny Mendelssohn’s String Quartet in E-flat major.
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Season 3, Episode 15
Listen as host Scott Gale sits down with Ruth and Brent to discuss their cutting-edge insights on the science of leader development, managing zillennials, and what we’ve learned post COVID-19.
Season 3, Episode 14
Dan shares the risks he took early in his career to get him to the level of success he is at now, the importance of “work/life fit” and the incredible story of how Velentium became a major player in ventilator production in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Season 3, Episode 13
Amanda chats about the benefits of getting an MBA at a smaller school, what has kept her working with passion at Constellation for 15 years, and how her Japanese-American background and the internment camps of WWII are a central part of her family’s history and her commitment to DEI work.
Season 3, Episode 12
Joanna shares her career journey, passion for healthcare, deep connection to Rice, and how the heartbreaking loss of her young son serves as inspiration to continue her work in finding groundbreaking medical technologies to help others.
Season 3, Episode 11
Takeya shares her incredible journey from the chemical engineering lecture halls of a top-ranked program to the control rooms of world-scale chemical manufacturing facilities, from NRG Stadium cheering for the Houston Texans to an investment banking career focused on clean energy.
Season 3, Episode 10
On October 24, we hosted our first live podcast taping event at Rice Business, with Owl Have You Know host Maya Pomroy ‘22 and Associate Professor of Strategic Management, Anastasiya Zavyalova. Listen as they dive into Anastasiya’s research on reputation management, how social media has changed the landscape of the field, how that relates to the Russia-Ukraine war, and her hopes for the future.
Season 3, Episode 9
Danielle is the director of corporate social responsibility and ESG (environmental, social and governance) for Silicon Valley Bank. She chats with host Scott Gale ‘19 about her start in the world of finance and banking, getting acclimated to Houston and its weather as an out-of-towner, the future of ESG, and her travels with her family.
Season 3, Episode 8
This Houston native sits down with host Maya Pomroy ’22 to talk about how his son pushed him to get his MBA, maintaining connections with his cohort even though he did the online MBA program, and being a lifelong learner.
Season 3, Episode 7
Chuck sits down with host Scott Gale '19 at the Digital Wildcatters Podcasting Studio right here in Houston to talk about his long-standing ties to Rice, pursuing a career in investment banking, his connections to Nashville and the music industry, and his hopes for rebranding the energy industry.
Season 3, Episode 6
Mike Dey ‘20 talks with host Maya Pomroy '22 about building a cohort community in the online MBA program, how Rice Business inspired him to pivot from avionics engineering to business ownership and the importance of networking and connections.