Owl Have You Know
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.
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Finding What Drives You Mid-Career feat. Stuart Bell ’23 (opens the original)
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With over 15 years of experience at Chevron Phillips Chemical Company, Stuart Bell ’23 is leaving his mark on the sustainability world through his mission-driven and service-oriented mindset – a mindset that, he says, Rice Business helped him unlock. Beginning as a process engineer, Stuart has held a multitude of positions across the Chevron Phillips ecosystem and is now the senior manager of sustainability. Stuart joins co-host Maya Pomroy ‘22 to discuss why, a decade into his career, he decide
The Business of Live Entertainment feat. Javier Simons ’25 (opens the original)
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If you told a young Javier Simons that he would one day own his own talent agency and hold an MBA from Rice Business, he would have been in disbelief. Growing up in Panama, Javier’s path into the music industry was anything but conventional, he says. After years of waiting tables, Javier taught himself the business of entertainment from backstage, and fell in love with the in’s and out’s of talent booking and artist management. It was this passion that drove him to creating KOQ Agency, a global
You’ve Been Laid Off: Now What? feat. Marie Bergeron (opens the original)
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It’s one of the most feared moments in anyone’s career – finding out you’ve just lost your job. After a layoff or an unexpected career transition, it can be hard to know where to start when it comes to finding your next opportunity, especially in the age of AI tracking systems and applicant pools of hundreds or even thousands of job candidates. So what can you do to stand out from the crowd? On the inaugural episode of Owl Have You Know’s “Field Notes,” Marie Bergeron, director of career develop
Don’t Take a Job Just Because It’s Available feat. Henry Richardson ’09 (opens the original)
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Henry Richardson, a former national champion diver, has built a career centered around health, wellbeing, and community. After earning his MBA at Rice Business, Henry founded the fitness studio chain, DEFINE body & mind, a nod to a professor’s words about defining your role in this world. Henry’s work with DEFINE has since evolved into Define Living, apartment communities with health and wellbeing at their core. In this episode of Owl Have You Know, hosted by Brian Jackson ‘21, Henry shares his
A New Chapter for the Rothko Chapel feat. Alecia Harris ’23 (opens the original)
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For Alecia Harris ’23, art is as essential as breathing, and it’s something everyone deserves to have access to. So she’s turned that belief into a career that sits at the intersection of art and business, with a mission focused on making art accessible. After years working in arts programming and visitor engagement at Rice University’s Moody Center for the Arts, she earned her Professional MBA from Rice Business, then pivoted into private wealth management at J.P. Morgan, where she built a clie
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