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Anas Atassi – Sumak (Excerpt)

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Anas Atassi – International MBA. IE Business School. Reading: Sumak: Mijn recepten en verhalen uit Syrië (excerpt) by Anas Atassi , 2019. My recipes are the recipes of my mother, and her recipes are largely from my grandmother. They were sharpened by time and formed by the availability of ingredients and adapted to the tastes of […]

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Brittany Barylski – Anne of Green Gables (Excerpt)

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Brittany Barylski – Accreditations Coordinator. IE Business School. Reading: Anne of Green Gables (excerpt) by Lucy Montgomery , 1908. My future seemed to stretch out before me like a straight road. I thought I could see along it for many a milestone. Now there is a bend in it. I do not know what lies around the […]

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Teresa Martín Retortillo – A poem (Un poème)

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Teresa Martín Retortillo – Executive President at IE Exponential Learning. IE University. Reading: A poem – Pour an art poétique (excerpt) by Raymond Queneau , from the book L´instant falal, 1966. Well set and well chosen some words make poetry words it suffices that you love them to write a poem you do not always know what you […]

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Zayne Imam – Long Walk to Freedom (excerpt)

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Zayne Imam – Engagement Officer. Strategy and Innovation. IE Business School. Reading: Long Walk to Freedom (excerpt) by Nelson Mandela , 1995. I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds […]

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Cristina Fernández Tesoro – Contemplate the painting

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Cristina Fernández Tesoro – Instructional Designer. Learning Innovation. IE Business School. Reading: Contemplate the painting by Cristina Fernández Tesoro , 2019. There’s something unsettling about Magritte’s Son of Man. Unsettling, because I can see the executive but the apple prevents me from seeing the person, the human being. Magritte’s visión is always entertaining. He offers a […]

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Giulia de Oliveira Camargo – The True Philosophy of Life ( A Verdadeira Filosofia de Vida)

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Giulia de Oliveira Camargo – Communication, class of 2020 Student. IE University. Reading: The True Philosophy of Life (A Verdadeira Filosofia de Vida) by Fernando Pessoa, from the book Anotações. To work with nobility, to wait sincerely, to feel people with tenderness, this is the true philosophy. 1 – Do not have firm opinions, or believe […]

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Michael Ellis Lanaux – Interview with the Vampire

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Michael Ellis Lanaux – MBA 2018 Student – President of IE Out & Alliies Club. IE Business School Reading: Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice, 1976. “New Orleans, though beautiful and desperately alive, was desperately fragile. There was something forever savage and primitive there. Something that threatened the exotic and sophisticated life both from […]

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Giorgi Kopadze – Don’t write me (ნუ მწერ)

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Giorgi Kopadze – Master in Management 2017 . IE Business School Reading: Don’t write me (ნუ მწერ) by მირზა გელოვანი – Mirza Gelovani, (1917 – 1944). Don’t write me, that the almond trees blossomed in our garden, That the sky came down on Mtatsminda hill, That Georgia in this spring, as always, looks like a […]

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Dora Skalicki – The Warning (Opomena)

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Dora Skalicki – Institutional Relations Coordinator IE Business School Reading: The Warning (Opomena) by Antun Branko Šimić, (1898 – 1925). Man, be careful not to walk small under the stars. May your whole body be filled with the dim light of the stars! To have no regrets when with the last glances you part with […]

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Karin Tailbot – The curve of your eyes (La courbe de tes yeux)

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Karin Tailbot – Associate Director, IE Exponential Learning. IE Business School. Reading: The curve of your eyes (La courbe de tes yeux) by Paul Éluard, from book Capitale de la douleur, 1926. The curve of your eyes goes around my heart, A round of dance and sweetness, Halo of time, nocturnal and safe cradle, And […]

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