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Jiayang Wan – Bamboo Amidst Rocks

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Jiayang Wan – Director – IE Greater China Region (Chinese Mainland, Hong Kong SAR, Macao SAR, Taiwan Region). IE University. Reading: Bamboo Amidst Rocks (竹石) by Zheng Xie, commonly known as Zheng Banqiao (1693 – 1766). Biting down on the green mountain, never letting go. Its roots were originally established inside the broken rocks. […]

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Javier López – Auroa (excerpt)

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Javier López – Associate Director, Vice-Rectorate for Academic Affairs. IE University Reading: Auroa (El Legado de Auroa) (excerpt) by Macarena Martín Sacristán (2026). Chapter 1: The Point of No Return I have never believed in miracles, but when reality bends beneath your feet and a wormhole opens like a wound in time, it becomes […]

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Pablo Marco – The war of The End of the World (excerpt)

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Pablo Marco – Associate Vice Dean, IE School of Politics, Economics & Global Affairs. Reading: The war of The End of the World (La guerra del fin del mundo) (excerpt) by Mario Vargas Llosa (1981). The man was tall and so thin he seemed to be always in profile. He was dark-skinned and rawboned, […]

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Carlos González – Theory of shadows

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Carlos González – Director – Infrastructure and Operations. IE University. Reading: Theory of shadows (Teoría de las sombras) by Andrés Mirón (2005). It is not true that shadows raise barricades for us to stumble against. Shadows welcome us into their glorious bosom. And they possess the rare gift of granting a sun to those […]

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Guillermo de Haro – The small book of stoicism (excerpt)

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Guillermo de Haro – Vice Dean of External Relations – IE School of Science & Technology. Reading: The small book of stoicism (El pequeño libro de la filosofía estoica) by Guillermo de Haro y Javier Recuenco (2022). What do a Roman emperor, a slave turned philosopher, and someone facing a world in perpetual crisis […]

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Juan José Güemes – The Merchant of Venice (excerpt)

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Juan José Güemes – Senior Vice President of Strategy & Corporate Development. IE University. Reading: This quote is a famous line spoken by Portia in Act 1, Scene 2, The Merchant of Venice (excerpt) by William Shakespeare (1596 – 1597). If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, […]

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Maite Urraca Caviedes – Sonnet 1

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Maite Urraca Caviedes – Executive Director Finance & Operations Department. IE University. Reading: Sonnet 1. (Soneto 1.) by Garcilaso De la Vega (1491/1503 – 1536). When I stop to consider my state, and see the steps along which I have been brought, I find considering the road where I got lost, I could well […]

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Pedro Gómez Rueda – Sonnet 16. For the Tomb of Don Hernando de Guzmán

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Pedro Gómez Rueda – Administration & Accounting Department. IE University. Reading: Sonnet 16. For the Tomb of Don Hernando de Guzmán (Soneto 16. Para la sepultura de Don Hernando de Guzmán) by Garcilaso De la Vega (1491/1503 – 1536). Neither the hateful French arms arrayed against my wrathful breast, nor from well-guarded walls, with […]

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Estelle Eberlein – Joyful and Sorrowful

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Estelle Eberlein – International Relations Student . IE Business School. Reading: Joyful and Sorrowful (Freudvoll und leidvoll) by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 – 1832). Joyful And sorrowful, Head full of memories, Regretting And fretting, Pain seems to freeze; To heaven rejoicing, Cast down to foul death, Only lovers are voicing Happiness with each […]

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Cristina Pérez Muñoz – The Black Heralds

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Cristina Pérez Muñoz – Senior Associate Director – Career Discovery Advisor (IMBA). IE University. Reading: The Black Heralds (Los heraldos negros) by César Vallejo (1892-1938). Some blows in life, they’re so heavy . . . I don’t know. Blows as if dealt by God’s own wrath, as if, ahead, the rip of every single […]

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