We ended last night at the Rice University MBA Reception in Brazil. It was great to see the exceptional student leaders, their clients & Dean Rodriguez. It is relationships, business partnerships and friendships that create opportunity and build Houston’s global reputation. 🇧🇷

Great news! Rice Business earned the No. 24 Best MBA Program spot, according to US News. Our jump from No. 27 is a true testament to our faculty, staff and students' hard work and commitment to excellence. business.rice.edu/news/rice-grad… #RiceBusiness #MBA #USNewsRankings

Excited for the start of a new chapter. Today marks the beginning of my learning journey at the Jones Graduate School of Business at Rice University. I’ll be teaching alongside my new colleagues in the Organizational Behavior Research Group.

Rice Business is delighted to introduce five new faculty members! Join us in welcoming our new faculty: Cyrus Aghamolla, Diana Jue-Rajasingh, Emily Prinsloo, Yvonne Taylor, and John Wisneski. Read more about them: bit.ly/46vntiT #RiceBusiness #YouBelongHere #Faculty

The Organizational Behavior group Stanford Graduate School of Business is hiring! We're looking for candidates with a macro orientation (e.g. sociology, strategy, management, computational social science) with at least 2-3 years of post-PhD experience. Deadline Oct 1. Please RT gsb.stanford.edu/jobs/faculty-r…

Exciting news! Bloomberg Businessweek has ranked our full-time MBA program No. 19 — up from 29 last year! This follows another top 20 ranking, the No. 17 business school in the U.S. from the Financial Times, which also ranked us the No. 1 business school in Texas. #TopRankedMBA

Not only humbled by the recognition, but also continually grateful for the opportunity to be part of the journey for so many talented future business leaders. poetsandquants.com/2023/10/04/the…

Exciting News! 🥇 We're No. 1 in Entrepreneur and The Princeton Review's grad entrepreneurship rankings for the 5th year in a row! Plus, top rankings in Poets&Quants, Bloomberg, and U.S. News. 🚀 Read more: bit.ly/3u6L1ft #Entrepreneurship #TopMBA #RiceBusiness #BSchool

Peter Rodriguez, dean of Rice University's Jones Graduate School of Business, joins the Houston Innovators Podcast to discuss the school's growth and development as an innovation leader. houston.innovationmap.com/rice-universit…

Hello, top 20! Poets&Quants announced their list of the top 100 U.S. MBA programs, and Rice Business climbed up 11 spots to No. 18, ranking highest in Texas. We thank our community for their commitment to excellence. 📲 Read more: bit.ly/3uNnC2T #RiceBusiness #TopMBA

Rice Business broke ground on a new 112,000-square-foot building designed to accommodate unprecedented growth at the school. This remarkable new building embodies the evolution of Rice Business over the past five decades. #RiceBiz bit.ly/4dAZKBx

A special thanks to Dr. Alex Curmi for inviting me on The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Therapy. It was great fun talking about emotional intelligence open.spotify.com/episode/3h8kEb…

I’ve procrastinated too long! Let’s roll.

.Matt Fontana More special teams mistakes. Has to be the most poorly coached unit I’ve seen in years. Bubba has to be the first one to go next week.

.Matt Fontana How about a Trey Hendrickson for Myles Garrett trade straight-up? I know it may sound crazy, but both want to leave their respective teams for reasons that the other team seems capable of satisfying 👀

Just a reminder, you can reinvent yourself at any moment.

Upcoming MBA roundtable event for entrepreneurs features my past employers Kelley Direct Online MBA and W. P. Carey School of Business, as well as my current employer Rice Business - I feel seen, and you have good taste Poets&Quants 👏

Rice is leading a major new initiative to advance space technology. We have signed an $8.1M cooperative agreement with the U.S. Space Force University Consortium to lead the Center for Advanced Space Sensing Technologies at Rice. news.rice.edu/news/2026/rice…

Just another beautiful spring morning on South Main 🌸

For the 3rd year in a row, Rice University is named one of Forbes' "New Ivies!" We’re leading in AI adoption — prepping students for the future of work by teaching them to engage with these tools in thoughtful, hands-on ways across disciplines. Read more: tinyurl.com/2uy5f99a