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We\\u2019re so excited to bring you another conversation from this year\\u2019s alumni reunion!\\xa0
Tracy Dennis `00 and John Dennis `93 met the first week of freshman year as undergrads at Harvard and have been together ever since, even both eventually coming to Rice Business for their MBAs!\\xa0
Tracy is a lecturer of management at Rice Business, teaching Principles of Survey Design. She started two research and insight agencies and is currently a lead UX researcher for Globalization Partners. John has been a principal, managing director, and managing partner of WoodRock & Co. since he founded the firm in 1998.\\xa0
Tracy and John join host Maya Pomroy \'22 to talk about their lives together, what brought them to Houston and to Rice, post-Partio Lamaze classes, and why they continue to give back to the Rice community.
Owl Have You Know is a production of Rice Business and is produced by University FM.
Episode Quotes:
How an MBA transforms lives and inspires people to give back
On giving back to the Rice community
14:00: [Tracy Dennis] I don\'t think of what I do with Rice Business as volunteering. I do it because I feel strongly about Rice Business, and I personally get so much out of it, and I want to give back to the school because it\'s given me so much.On what made John choose Houston
04:47: [John Dennis] While I enjoyed growing up here, I never thought I would come back. But I think seeing Houston through Tracy\'s eyes gave me the opportunity to kind of look at it with an open mind, and it\'s been very, very good to us.
Learning more through business school
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