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Janire Ortega Ezkerra – The opportunity of the journey (Bidaiaren trenpu)

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Janire Ortega Ezkerra – Controller Control Administrative Office. IE Business School. Reading: La oportunidad del viaje (Bidaiaren trenpu) by Pako Aristi , from book Urari ostatutako poemak , 2014. The journey is a blank page moved by the passion of ferment. It dawns with the imagination And even though it means leaving the well-being of home, […]

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Marco Trombetta – Silence (Silenzio)

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Marco Trombetta – Professor of Accounting and Management Control – IE Business School. Reading: Silence (Silenzio) by Giuseppe Ungarett, from book Il porto sepolto), 1916. Giuseppe Ungaretti is one of the greatest Italian poets of modern Italian literature. I adore him, because behind the apparent simplicity of his poems we find all the complexities of […]

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Isabela del Alcázar – Carpe Diem

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Isabela del Alcázar – Global head of sustainability at IE University. Reading: Carpe Diem (Verses by Horace & Omar Khayam). Our worries are eternal. Hence Horatio’s celebrated carpe diem: “Seize the day, place in the hours that come as little faith as you can,” which has been echoed over the centuries in every poetic form. […]

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Juliana Pereira – I Am A Shepherd (Sou um guardador de rebanhos)

3 months ago57519 0

Juliana Pereira – IE Campus Director. IE University. Reading: I Am A Shepherd (Sou um guardador de rebanhos) by Alberto Caeiro, one of Fernando Pessoa´s noms de plume. I am a shepherd. The sheep are my thoughts and all my thoughts sensations. I think with my eyes and ears, my feet and hands my nose […]

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Joaquin Garralda – Hotel California (Excerpt)

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Joaquin Garralda – Dean of Academic Affairs. IE Business School. Reading: Hotel California (Excerpt) by Joaquin Garralda. On my way back that night, I headed for Marlene’s room. During the walk, the scene at the meal kept coming back to me, going round and round my head, leaving me feeling uncomfortable. I stood in front […]

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Patrice Juah – Tell Your Story

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Patrice Juah – MIR Student & Kistefos Young Talented Scholars. IE School of Global and Public Affairs. Reading: Tell Your Story by Patrice Juah, from book Under Ducor Skies, 2018. Tell your story, The old ones. The new ones. The recycled ones. The forgotten ones. The ignored ones. Stories from yesterday Hidden between the pages, […]

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Georgia Harris – Atlas

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Georgia Harris – Dean´s Office representative. IE Business School. Reading: Atlas by UA Fanthorpe, from Safe as Houses (Peterloo Poets, 1995). There is a kind of love called maintenance Which stores the WD40 and knows when to use it; Which checks the insurance, and doesn’t forget The milkman; which remembers to plant bulbs; Which answers letters; […]

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Natalia Loungou – Excerpt from Conversation avec Picasso

8 months ago7106 0

Natalia Loungou – Program Coordinator. IE Law School. Reading: Excerpt from Conversation avec Picasso by Christian Zervos (1935). My greatest passion, to which I have dedicated my life for as long as I can remember, is painting. I spend my free time visiting museums, exhibitions and art galleries, but above all, painting. It has allowed […]

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Oliver Gigler – Excerpt from The Judge and His Executioner (Der Richter Und Sein Henker)

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Oliver Gigler – Associate Finance Manager . IE Business School. Reading: Excerpt from The Judge and His Executioner (Der Richter Und Sein Henker) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (1950). Barlach spent the night in his armchair, without leaving it even once. The tremendous vitality that had risen within him earlier in the evening had subsided and now threatened […]

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María-Eugenia Marín – Veguellina de Órbigo

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María-Eugenia Marín – General Director International Relations . IE Business School | IE University. Reading: Veguellina de Órbigo by María-Eugenia Marín (2014). In the silence of the hills On a bed of copper-colored clay I bathe in the beauty Of the landscape In this piece of nature Untouched I release I must release I breathe in […]

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