During the pandemic, the hybrid MBA model wasn’t considered hybrid anymore, it became the normal way to work and learn. While Jeffrey Moseley ‘21 was in Rice Business’ online MBA program, he was also living in Santiago, Chile, balancing a full-time job, two kids with cabin fever and coursework. 

Jeff took on his current role of strategy and operations manager for the U.S. Department of Defense in Santiago, Chile in March of 2020. 

Jeffrey obtained his MBA from Rice Business in 2021 through the online MBA program, with a focus on corporate strategy, marketing and brand strategy. He is a Young Alumni Ambassador and is helping design a Global Field Experience (GFE) for Rice Business. 

He chats with host Scott Gale ‘19 about joining the Army, what he gained there that he couldn’t find from the traditional undergrad experience, being stationed in Russia and his passion for international work and travel.

Episode Quotes:

On being in the military

05:19 - That's kind of the goal is to break you down and build you back up and make you comfortable being uncomfortable and comfortable with those things that you never would've considered yourself capable of doing in a previous life. 

On living abroad

12:13 - There's only so much of a culture that you can really understand through tourism. You can spend a week or two, you can see some things and it's eye opening and everyone should travel. Everyone should travel the world, but living there takes it to a different level. You see more of the underbelly, you see more of the good and the bad. You start to see the people for who they really are.

The beauty of the Rice program

30:53 - The beauty of the Rice program is that it's intentionally small. And I love that about it. You can't have a cohort of 200 people or 300 people and develop those relationships in an online format that you can get at Rice.

Building community through cohorts 

38:37 - That's kind of one of the things that I think Rice carries forward is when that Rice alumni or that Rice student calls, you answer. And you don't get that in other programs, those relationships are built,  that network transcends your cohort in your class, into cohorts past and present.

Show Links:

• Episode Transcript

Guest Profile:

• Jeffrey Moseley on LinkedIn