MBA2022 IESE Yearbook

MBA 2022 Graduation

Yearbook

Class President & Class Vice President Distinguished President of the University of Navarra, Ms Maria Iraburu; Mr. Juvencio Maetzu; Professor Franz Heukamp, dean of IESE; Professor Marc Badia; members of the faculty; family members, and, of course, the IESE MBA graduating class of 2022.

Is it worth it?

It’s a question many of us here will have asked ourselves before taking the leap and becoming an IESE MBA student in the class of 2022.

Is it worth going back to school if we can’t attend classes in person? Is it worth joining an MBA when we can’t network over dinners and other events. Is it worth spending up to €90k to change careers in an unpredictable job market?

Despite all these questions. Each of us said yes. We wanted to be part of IESE’s class of 2022.

I can remember as soon I joined I was added to a WhatsApp group full of excited students eager to get to know each other and start the MBA adventure.

Reading all the characters argue about everything from the optimal time to arrive in Barcelona, the best laptop for taking notes and, yes, whether we should be communicating on WhatsApp, Telegram or Slack made me wonder, is this worth it?

Despite all that, we quickly reached August 2020 and we were off, straight into practicing our logos speeches for comms classes, forcing ourselves to watch our cringeworthy elevator pitches and deciding what metaphor best fit us.

And perhaps as importantly, we finally got the chance to meet each other in person. I can remember meeting 10 of you in 10 seconds on that first (and only) night in the Mallorca Airbnb. I can remember racing to be one of the 30 people to sign up to a dinner organised initially for just 12 for Camila Notaro’s birthday. I can remember the party at Mallorca 336 which had people of all nationalities queuing to get into a four bed flat.

The middle of September came and we were finally on campus to start the MBA we’d all signed up for. We are all told the MBA can be broken into three elements: academics, the job and the social life.

From ABP, to accounting, decision analysis and many more topics, IESE has helped us build a solid foundation of knowledge that will support us as we move back into the professional world. For me at least it was in the academic side where I experienced the imposter syndrome which affects so many of us. I’ll never forget confidently briefing my team on the first ABP case before spending the following 75 minutes in class being told everything I had said wasn’t even worthy of appearing on the blackboard. It wouldn’t be the last time.

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But for me one of the joys of class was the chance to hear and learn from all of you here. I couldn’t tell you the number of times I’d kick myself because I wasn’t able to come up with that one point that makes the professor’s eyes light up at hearing a different, intelligent point of view. You all drove me to work hard, improve and change how I approach business problems. I hope you all felt the same.

There are some parts of the academic side I won’t miss. That moment when you open a new case and realise it’s more than 20 pages long. The attendance app which just never seemed to work or you forgot to use.

Getting up at 630 in the morning after a late night working on cases. I admit there were many mornings when I had to ask myself was it worth it.

Overall, they say that IESE is the most rigorous MBA school for academia and, despite all of our complaints, I think we can all agree that we have learned more on this campus than we could have at any place anywhere in the MBA world.

The topic that comes up the most both on and off campus is of course the question of where you are going to be when the MBA finishes. If we didn’t know it already a lot of us had to learn how to bounce back after receiving rejection upon rejection.

Not only that but thinking about your career is when you can feel the most lost at IESE. Like deciding what to watch on Netflix on a relaxing Sunday we have so many choices that we can end up looking at everything without knowing exactly what we want. It is also where the MBA bubble can be at its most overwhelming.

Seeing so many people around us getting work and celebrating is hard. It’s hard to share in the happiness of others who have found exactly what they want when you are so lost.

The majority of us came here because somehow we felt lost in our professional lives. We hoped that two years at IESE would provide us with that magic pill which will bring us fulfilment in our careers and make the experience worth it. But the truth is more complicated.

When asking if it’s worth it, I remind myself that we live in the Tinder generation. A lot of us here might feel like we’ve matched with the perfect job but in two short years will go back swiping looking for that next perfect situation. At times we can find ourselves but it’s very easy to get lost once again. This is when we need perspective. We are the one percenters of the world. No matter how many times we compare ourselves with our fellow students, the truth is there are more than 6 billion people who would do anything to be in our situation. We should enjoy moments like these, and relish the ones when things get a little tougher.

When we weren’t in class or at home stressing about academia and careers, we were busy socialising. I personally was part of so many trips that will stay with me forever.

Mallorca, Valencia, Croatia, Prague, Malta, Tenerife, Nairobi, Ibiza, Faro, La Marsella, SkIESE, Cádiz sometimes it felt like we were never in Barcelona.

But when we were in Barcelona I think we made the most of it. The dinners, the parties, the events. Crowned in my view by multi culti, an amazing experience with incredible food and drink and even better performances. When I debate now whether or not it’s been worth it, I think of that night organised by Inés, Valeria and Ignacio.

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Besides the social aspect it was amazing to get to know each person here and find out your secret skills. Who knew Jorge Días was one of the world’s best pádel players? That Ryo Nagata was an incredible photographer? That Hasani Brooks was a singer who could reduce any grown man to tears.

We also had some tough moments at the MBA. Two stand out for me. First hearing about Nicole Van Allen’s crash. Visiting you when you came out of hospital and see how hard it was for you to move was a reminder of how vulnerable human life is. But your recovery was shown by the fact that months later it was you pushing me to run those hills every morning in Croatia.

And finally, one of the biggest personalities at the start of the MBA. I think a lot of us remember the moment when we found out Kamran Cheema was hospitalised with covid. Those 3 days you spent in intensive care when we didn’t hear from you felt like 3 years. I’ll never forget that video call with you on New Year’s Eve when you had what felt like hundreds of tubes inside you and you couldn’t even speak it was so hard to breathe. I thought I was going to lose a friend I’d only just started to know. However, underneath his jovial persona Kamran is strong. No virus was going to get him down.

I want to finish with something I was pondering on the long bus ride to the ancient ruins during our 80 person trip in Lebanon. I was reading an excellent book called How To Survive A Plague by David France. It’s about the Aids epidemic and how the gay community got together to fight both the virus and prejudice against them from the American government and media. Here’s an excerpt from a speech by New York mayor Edward Koch at a rally in 1984: “It seems to me that when we come before God, God is not going to ask whether we are Jews or Protestants or Catholics or non-believers, or whether we are homosexual or heterosexual. God is going to say ‘What did you do on Earth? Should your actions on Earth entitle you to come into heaven?’”

It got me thinking about my contribution to the world. IESE does a great job helping us with our professional CV. But what about our life CV? What have I done to make the world a better place? The sad answer for me is not enough. When I die and I present my lifetime CV I think I’ll get nothing more than that rejection email familiar to lots of us here.

I ask each of you to sit for a moment when you can and ask yourself the same question. How does your lifetime CV look? Have you done enough to make this world a better place? And what can you do with this privileged position afforded us post MBA to improve it? When asking was the MBA worth it, we shouldn’t just think about how it impacts us but also those around us.

Besides the impact it’s the little moments you remember which make the MBA worth it. When I ask myself has IESE and these last two years been worth it? I think of all of you and tell myself, yes it has. Thank you.

Joe & Cacau

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Dean’s Message Congratulations! You should be proud of this great accomplishment.

The MBA is a special program for IESE. We think very carefully about the make-up of each MBA class, and the types of leaders we want to nurture in this program. It is not an easy path getting here. And in moments like this one, it has not been easy getting through it, either. We are proud to call each of you a IESE MBA Class of 2022 graduate.

Looking back to your first days on campus in Barcelona, it is unlikely you imagined that you would be graduating at a time of such global uncertainty. Now that the world seems to be starting to leave Covid behind, a war is taking place in Europe, and our prayers go out to all those in harm’s way. Thanks for the positive attitudes and the fortitude you have shown in this tumultuous year.

You are graduating in changing times and challenging times, and with change comes opportunity. I encourage you to look to the future with a sense of hope and responsibility. The world needs responsible business leaders now more than ever, and you have the opportunity to define what the future will look like. You all have all the tools to make your careers meaningful for yourselves, and positive for society at large.

While on the one hand this is a farewell, it is also very much a welcome. It is a welcome into IESE´s active alumni community, which counts on more than 50,000 executives around the world. As alumni, you become ambassadors of the school and of its mission. I trust that you will bear that badge proudly and wisely. You are part of a privileged group of people that have great capabilities and that have a lot of opportunities in front of you. You can create that good new world that we all want.

The learning doesn´t stop at graduation. In fact, now’s the time to put what you’ve learned – and the desire to continue learning -- into action. I know that all of you have what it takes to be those leaders we can trust.

Warm regards, Franz Heukamp IESE DEAN

Dear MBA’2022 class. It has been a pleasure to meet you all. You are about to finish two years of personal and professional transformation. Two years of re-thinking and reorienting your professional career and, for some, also your personal life. You leave IESE with high aspirations, you want to be good professionals and good managers, you want to have an impact in the world, you want to give back to society. That 's great! Do not forget it along the way. Life goes very fast, do not let social pressure, professional stress or inertia lead your decisions. Periodically take your time to reflect and think: am I making an impact? Am I good? How can I improve? Learning is a lifelong journey. Enjoy! inés

Dear IESE MBA 2022 class, it has been a great pleasure interacting with you inside and outside the classroom during these last 18 months. I wish each of you all the best personally and professionally. Remember that the true value we create in our lives is like the CLV: sometimes we pay high upfront costs with the expectation to recover the investment, so be bold and get involved in endeavors that really matter in the long-run; that the value is dynamic, it changes over time, so be resilient in tough times; and that the value depends largely on how we act on it, it’s not pre-determined, so be a force for good into helping out others. Congratulations on your graduation! And keep in touch! Albert

Dear MBA class of 2022, congratulations for the big achievement! Now we count on you as mission critical leaders in the world to create solutions to real problems. Always balance the hard and rational with the soft and intuitive because the essential is invisible to the eye. Live our values of spirit of service, respect for people, loyalty, truthfulness, transparency and, in short, integrity, avoiding a neutrality not committed to these realities. Aim high, love what you do and do it with love. If things ever go wrong, then be humble, forgive, be generous, get up again and keep fighting for your purpose in life. How to do that? Start by doing what is necessary, then do what’s possible and suddenly you will be doing the impossible. And remember you can always count on me for whatever you need. All the best. Joan

Dear IESE MBAs 2022, heartfelt congratulations for your MB-Accomplishments!! It was a pleasure to share (some of) your time here in Barcelona with you, and I thank you for being great company in the darker and then also the lighter times of the pandemic. I hope to see many of you again in the post-MBA future and I wish you the very best of luck for the all new projects you will be embarking on now :). Look after yourselves and don’t lose sight of what really matters. Un fuerte abrazo, Johannes

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Our Professors Beloved MBA Class of 2022: These days I should have walked through the North Campus seeing you practicing for your graduation ceremony... Unfortunately, as I am in Madrid, I have not been able to see it.

But, even if I have already seen this many times in the past, it always shocks me seeing you there. It’s a happy picture but at the same time a sad one because that means that you will leave IESE in a few days.

Of course, the verb "leave" is not the right one. Instead, it should be "hasta luego". As you may have heard many times, you will always be an IESE Alumni, which means that IESE will be your home forever. I'd love to see you back many times.

I really hope IESE has changed your lives, as it changes mine every year that I have the chance to teach such special people like you, guys. I do hope you have the opportunity to end up working in companies that treat you well, that you can put into practice everything learnt and also apply the values you have lived at IESE. And, as the mission of the School says, make a mark wherever you go. Think big and make better companies and a better society too. Be humble, help others and enjoy every single minute of your new life out there. Work hard but play hard too, with your families and friends!

I wish you all the best in the future, both professionally and personally! Please keep coming back to IESE as many times as you can. And, of course, count on all of us for whatever you may need!

Un fuerte abrazo, Edi

Dear Class, These two years have been a very intense period of your life - learning, fun, personal change. Sure you will remember it for life. You did a huge investment - in time and emotional dedication more than money - , and I am sure that in the long term, you will see the payout again not only moneywise but personally. But for this, you will have to think long term and take into consideration several of your operational learnings: seek meaning and not happiness (happiness is an outcome not an objective), don’t let false ambitions and frustration be the bottleneck in your mind and, when thinks turn wrong in a unfair manner, think that life does not need to be fair to you to be enjoy it. Alejandro

Dear MBA Class 22. It has been a great honor meeting you!

It has been a long journey! A tough journey, but I am sure it has been rewarding and fun. I wish you all the best personally and professionally. Time goes by very fast. Focus on what really matters, on what really counts for you!

Hope to see you in the future. Congratulations again for your graduation! Pietro

Yearbook Committee Dear Class of 22, We gathered this yearbook so that all of us, no matter where we end up in the world, can read it to bring back memories from these incredible 2 years together. We hope you enjoy your ride through this time tunnel that starts with modest early birds dinners of 10-20 ppl and ends up with great trips we organized trying to be as together as possible until the end! What a ride it has been, it was a pleasure experiencing so many special moments with this class full of kind- and open-hearted people.

Cheers, Tsveta, Uri, Cacau, Sam, Ine, Nati, Carlota, Josefa

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Barcelona section

Barcelona

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Beloved Section Barcelona, What a journey… What a 2 years experience!! It has been a truly honor for me to represent you all during this lifetime experience which is the MBA at IESE. All of it, it has not been without many challenges due to our first covid year but looking back at it, it really deserved every effort we made to make our experience the best during these 2 years.

When the years will pass and our memories from the MBA will not be very bright in our memories, I would

kindly ask you to think about our first day when we sat all together for the first time in front of Carlos and think about the excitement that we all had to share many memories and good times with our new classmates. This brings me lots of energy!

would like that we always have a family feeling between us over the years, because we have been together into many storms, happy days, and amazing moments that we will never forget in our life. Hence, when we will see us again over the years when we see someone from For about 18 months we have been a our section having our best of smiles family and we have developed a to see a member of our beloved beautiful feeling to belong to section section Barcelona family.

Barcelona. Fate brought us to this section, as we were not able to Muchos besos y cariño from my side, choose neither our section not our -Ignacio Carricas teams, in the same way as we do not choose our family. That’s why, I

Team BCL1

Javier Pardo González-Aller

Santiago Vargas

Renan Motta

Kiren Shunmugham

Takafumi Ishido

Laila Nara Maria Brenninkmeijer

Linda Savinova

Diego Fernández Noguera

Juan Fernando Escudero di Brindisi

Team BCL2

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Miguel García Centenera

Ruixiao Lu

Rodrigo Robinson Bours Gándara

Tian Yi Zhao

Ana Leda Guedes Tavares

Miguel GómezLlano García

Joanna Rifai

Team BCL3

Brittney Salama

Estefan Looho

Britta Titz

Abhinav Kumar

Lluis de Tord Gomis

George Harper

Mafalda Oom de Almeida Torres

Noah Ross Herreros

Oyku Tali

Justo Gomez Palmes

Team BCL4

Jie Chen

Alexandre Fraletti

Ignacio Vicente Beltrán De La Viuda Carricas Laspalas Martínez-Acitores

Han-Lin Wan

Team BCL5

Yen-Hsin Lee Lee

Akhil Kumar Meesala

Bin Yin

Álvaro Antón Sancho

Luisa ​Pires Nogueira do Amaral

Alejandro Candela Madrid

Emma Jane Charlotte Sussex

Emanuele Charalambis

Andrés Kuri Breña Rosillo

Team BCL6

Dragan Chris Bacivan

Ines Serra Baucells

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Angad Gobind Santiago Pacheco Baksh Singh Bedi Lomelín

Ryo Nagata

Jessica Saade

Joseph Christopher Lobo

Miguel Castillo García

Nairobi section

Nairobi

Dear Nairobians,

I personally found it hard 8.15am classes, however, I was surprised by our in style Nairobians, Awethu, Hasani, Hard to find words to express everything in one page that Marina, Rex and Pallavi, who managed to always look we’ve lived and to describe the family that we’ve become. good so early in the morning.

I remember the first day, everyone in their best outfits I can proudly say that we had the sweetest people in our being shy with each other, but everything changed when section Miao, Nik, Mitali, Caco, Miltos, Alisa and Helena each of us started giving our own input. who were always there in case someone needed Segundo with his best icebreaker phrases. Ankit, Finn, and anything.

Masa bringing the best comments and laughs and earning As time passed by, we also discovered that we had the all the CoWs. Also, who can forget of Joe’s experiences in “student defender” among us: Kevin made sure that we the navy? got enough breaks and that everyone could go to the Ignasi T, our participation icon, always saving the toilet when needed. awkward silences when people hadn’t read the case. We We managed to take advantage and get the best from counted on Fabio, Kaio, Charles, Sahil, Ignasi S, Chunfeng, every moment. We had fun on Sundays with Nairobi FC Aigul and Serge who are quiet but spoke to share smart led by Abdel. The organization of the Nairobi events was and interesting comments. Harman and Ale shared their taken care by the best: María José, Victor, Marina and finance knowledge and, Josefa, simply our favourite Rafa. teacher!

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However, a party was not a party if Alvaro and María, our shot masters, didn’t start distributing Tequila and Jaggermeister at Ravi’s house while Jen, Jorge, Carlos and Chin Hao showed their dance moves. Lucky enough, Drea and Nicole became our Year 2 hosts where my favourite chef of Class 2022, Luquitas, could show his magic.

There are some people that never missed the opportunity to hang out with the Nairobi crew, Matías, Miguel and Vino were ALWAYS there!

I want to thank each one of you for the most amazing two years. I am so grateful to have such an amazing Nairobi family!

As Kazuho would say, KANPAI!!

Can’t wait for our first reunion!

Loves, -Vale Goldman

Team NRB1

Ravi Alencar de Macêdo

Miguel Cano de la Cruz

Marina Láinez Dionís

Harman Sandhu

Chunfeng Yin

Jennifer Zouein

Joseph Rizzo

Matías RuizTagle Barros

Kaio Gonçalves Pereira

Team NRB2

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Finn Bell Burrow

Chin-Hao Chang

Masashi Fuchigami

Mitali Gadekar

Miltiadis Mikhail Margellos

Victor Margets Alomar

Nicole Elisabeth Van Allen

María Zabalgoitia Villa

Team NRB3

Andrea Velasco Consuegra

Juan Segundo Ducos

Charles Leconte

Pallavi Sethi

Ignasi Torguet Carbonell

Vinoshen Vinayagaam

Fabio Augusto Massetani Zaim

Ignasi Sansalvadó Bertran

Awethu Kafu

Team NRB4

Jorge Díaz Carreño

María José Espinosa González

Carlos García Solé

Alisa Gomziakova Vaz Ferreira

Kazuho Nomura

Lucas Agustín Rey Jiménez de Aréchaga

Serge Winterhalder

Sahil Yadav

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Team NRB5

Hasani Brooks

Alejandro Entrecanales Mrsans

Valeria Goldman

Alvaro Novoa Mayo

Carlos Rabat Barros

Aigul Seidekova

Helena Gudjonsdottir

Ankit Nayal

Miaosu Han

Cheng Hang Hsu

Team NRB6

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Nikolaos Aravanis

Rafael Carlos de la Fuente Labori

Josefa Lucas Lizárraga

Kevin Peer

Abdel Hamed

Madrid section

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Madrid

Dear Section Madrid (Class of ’22), It truly has been an honor to have been part of and represented Section Madrid as a Student Council representative with Leticia over the past two years. I was once told that “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give” and I truly believe that each and every one of you have not only been empathetic, kind and helpful to me but to each other as well. I will forever cherish my interactions with every one of you.

I wish nothing but the best to all my peers in Section Madrid and hope for continued and immense success for all of you. We started this MBA journey amidst immense uncertainty and now we stand strong and tall, looking ahead to the distant horizon with all our learnings and ready to take on the challenges of life.

Love each and every one of you with all my heart.

With Regards, -Sid

As we venture out and start our professional journeys, I P.S – I leave you with a few lines from one of my favorite am reminded of this saying -“Meaning is not something poems. you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle. Meaning "As far as possible without surrender is something you build into your life. You build it out of be on good terms with all persons. your own past, affections, loyalties, experience of If you compare yourself with others, humankind as it is passed on to you, things you believe in, you may become vain and bitter; people you love, and out of the values for which you are for always there will be greater and lesser persons than willing to sacrifice something. You are the only one who yourself. can put them together into that unique pattern that will Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans. be your life. “ With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.

Be cheerful.

Strive to be happy”

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Team MAD1

Maram AlDukhayyil

Mohamad Faiz Bin Rasli

Maria de Meo

Alonso Salazar Couttolenc

Robert Michael Swasey

Guillem Verdés Flo

Anant Gupta

Patricia Royo

Ellynn Gwennaelle Azul Mahé León

Jorge Orue García

Team MAD2

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Paolo De Luca Borri

Monica Faria Pinto

Athena Truc Anh Lam

Aniket Poojary

Brian Ramos

Urs Claudius Weingart

Team MAD3

Jairus Antony

Alexander Klusik

Leonardo Nicolas Laconi

Rong Lai

Leticia Soares da Costa de Mello

Yasuaki Takada

Manuel Tapia Vicente

Geyi Wei

Fabian Fiege

Francisco de Asís Nieto Cortés

Team MAD4

Iñigo Arteche Muñoz

Andrea Cyganiak

Riccardo Donadel Riccardo

Camyla Serpa Oliveira

Siddharth Singh

Shuang Zhu

Francisco Jose Nettel Garza

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Team MAD5

Irene Crocker

Katharina Klohe

Louis Lew

Andres Ramos Gómez

Saurabh Swarup Swarup

Josep Maria Torner Simó

Álvaro Marcaida García

Felipe Marcos Kremer

Gustavo Neves Revkolevsky

Team MAD6

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Julie Daenen

Paul Guillard

Casey Leigh Harlow

Hwa Jung Hur

Tushar Saraogi

Gonzalo Soria Veguillas

Mizuki Tsujino

Alfredo von Ziegler Godínez

New York section

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New York

Dear New York Section, president. We had an asador. We had an expert in dating Concrete jungle where dreams are made of, there’s apps and other such topics. We had a Nigerian king. We nothin’ you can’t do… had a lot of questionable mustaches. We had many, many more.

I can’t express how much of an honor it’s been to represent you during our MBA. Just like the melting pot Above all, we had a family, and that’s something we will that is New York City, our section was one full of diversity always continue to have. I don’t have a single worry about and amazing characters. the lives or futures of those in our section. We are a group of high achievers, with winning personalities, and with We had nearly all the Aussies (and one Kiwi) who decent enough morals. It’s a combination that can’t go professors found barely intelligible. We had seemingly wrong. I can’t wait to see what we all do and to share interchangeable representatives from the Middle East. We more of our lives, loves, laughs, and experiences as we had a lighthouse. We had adventurers who spent more move on. time trading crypto and planning trips than mentally present in class. We had el Russo. We had not one, but One more time for now, and forever into the future, from two international men of mystery who claimed to be from the first and only afternoon New York Section that ever at least three different countries. We had a man who by existed:…Let’s hear it for New York, New York, New York. third term arrived late to class exactly ten minutes every time. We had Spanish mafia reps as well as a Catalan crew. Lots of Love, We had a carefree Brazilian who became class vice- Your Dancing Queen - Tyler

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Team NY1

Alexis Stelios Angelopoulos

Nicholas Borren

Santiago Gazzo

Carolina Faria

Yau Pui Law

Cecilia Nicolich

Marc Pastor Sampe

Angad Rikhy

Ilya Vybiral

Lingling Wu

Abdulrahman AlMulhim

Marta Campillo Espinosa

Stephanie Chioh

Aiswarya Choppali

Renan Freitas Aguiar

Tiernan Lean

Carlos Lucas Simarro

Ali Moghnieh

Pedro Nicolas Mo Umpierre

James Ward

Team NY2

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Team NY3

Karim Adaimi

Tyler Berghorst

Ishita Roongta

Lucas Uchoa Lyra

Vasudha Himatsingka

Davide Masullo

Chuks Nwachukwu Paulina Umeche Valdivieso Lolic

Manuel Richi Perez de Villegas

Carles Viñeta Viladecans

Team NY4

Maria Arimont Zaragoza

Guillermo Borthwick Alvarez

Ana Patricia Egea de la Mata

Alberto Fernandez Lopez

Amine Lakhlifi

Akshay Mohgaonkar

Bruno Pavan

Sandra Weber

Woochul Hong

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Team NY5

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Gerardo Gabriel Cabello Silva

Po-Yen Chen

Dhruv Mohan Chopra

Callum Crawford

Michelle Marie Cua

Daniel Ferraz Bueno

Nina Kuster

Killian Barry O'Donoghue

Albert Palomar Crusells

Andrea Flora Vallés Iñarrea

Rio section

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Rio The first and last of our name – Section Rio. Dear Rio Family, As the curtain falls on our MBA, I find myself reminiscing about the stellar moments we have had together. Even through the worst of the pandemic, the indomitable spirit of Rio remained alive through our cases, dinners, galas and trips.

From the awkward hellos in F-402 to the difficult goodbyes at graduation, Rio was more than a section. We were family. A family we did not choose but one we embraced. A family with all its imperfections yet one we called our own. A family where we disagreed but fiercely defended each other.

A family that will endure the test of time.

Let our voices and our journeys echo in the halls of eternity.

It has been an honor.

Forever and always, Ambar 1.0

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Team RIO1

Garine Arabian

Nicolas Jourde Gonzalez

Lilian Kitamura

Jeonghun Paik PAIK

Leticia Rueda GonzálezValerio

Duco Salomons

Levi Lynn Simpson

Ambar Chandra Sinha Sinha

Sebastian Aguirre Venegas

Daniel Cadoni

Fernando Finotto Visani

Ran Ge

Carla Rotllan Planell

Marga Salazar

Gabriel Sánchez de Ocaña Dorado

Hannibal Søberg

Karnica Tejpal

Team RIO2

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Team RIO3

John Dameron Benton

Matteo Bigliardi

Marcelo Bussab Fonseca

Carlos Castellanos Stephens

Shravani Joshi

Leonidas Larrain Mir

Mohahmed Amin Asif Sheikh

Yi-hsin Wu

Nadja Azarian

Alexander Biehl

Tsveta Todorova Damyanova

Eduardo Dutra de Araujo Silva

Albert Porcar Guri

Matias Soroet

Wurihan Zhuerqin

Beatriz Gandarias Calzada

Team RIO4

Mithun Sneh Koloth Puthenveedu

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Team RIO5

Emily Mary Rae Beatty

Gabriela de Martino Lee

Andrés Luna Alvear

Natalia Velasco Pinzon

Julio Wais Lucea

Dingjun Yu

Juan AlcaláZamora Pérez

Nicolas Alexander

Jordi Arasa Triginer

Tanya Margaret

Tanaka Mawindi

Giancarlo Young Nima

Marc Revian Aurel Moller-Racke

Yutaro Nishibori

Carlos Arena Campero

Saori Kimura

Team RIO6

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Munich section

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Munich

Dear Munich, The day has finally come! After 2 incredible years we are graduating from our MBA in this beautiful campus.

It is hard to put into words all the things we lived and created together, beginning from complete strangers and becoming the one and only Munich Family.

Think back to October 2020 where we did not know each other at all. Try to remember your first ride to IESE, the first feelings you felt entering to campus, the nervousness of sitting in a class full of 50 other strangers, the excitement of our first session, your online team meetings. Wow!!! How did time go by so fast??? 18 months and millions of experiences later we are here!

I am completely sure that each person we crossed in our lives bring us something and we give something to them. Let’s reflect on some things that Munich people gifted us in our daily life. We

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had Gio arriving late to every class, we had Jaime asking for selfie time, we had Fito dancing like Michael Jackson, we had Yi-Ju taking amazing pics of us, we had Jordan organising the best football tournament in COVID times, we had Clo and Anmol online bloopers, we had Hector’s songs, we had Anton announcing the COW, we had old Marvin and new Marvin, we had Ale Scherk’s hands, we had Ale Quintana’s unique comments and Tanya’s best one liners, we had Myriam’s “I have a question”, we had the best professor Bartosz, and I can go on and on… Munich, thank you for that and more! Thank you for sharing every morning together and making this MBA unforgettable.

Thank you to each of you!

brave person who decided to do an MBA. Please be brave to be a good professional. Be brave to make the right choices, no matter the cost or alternative paths. Be brave to challenge the status quo and make things happen. Be brave to transform your part of the world (no need the WHOLE world) in a better place for others. Be brave to be a good husband/wife, a good mother/father, a good son/daughter. Be brave to be a good friend. Be brave to always love others.

And be brave to be yourself.

The memories, knowledge and growth acquired in these 2 unique years, IESE community and, especially, the Munich Family will always be there for us.

We all came from different parts of the world, Keep all of this in your heart wherever you go. deciding to leave our countries, families, friends and comfort zone. We were brave to jump into a Hope to see you soon and have an “asado”! rollercoaster experience. And it was completely Ines. worth it! But now what? In few weeks we are all moving back to our countries or becoming expats.

So, wherever you are, please continue being the

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Team MUC1

Alejandra Scherk Fontanals

Anmol Gauba

Takashi Tanaka

Sonalia ernandes

Ingrid Bordasch

Alessandro Marasca

Michael Stefanic

Carlota Vallet Bassas

Team MUC2

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Nadia Shazly

Celio Castro

Priyadharshini Venkat

Jaime Villanueva Campos

Tokutake Hsu

Alan Bleiberg

Hector Rebollo

Niran Batra

Team MUC3

Albert Navasa

Srilakshmi Madhu

David Heckmann

Jordan Bohinc

Debora Rozao

Jinmo Gu

Tatyana Komarova

Adolfo Perez Borja

Ines Jaworski

Gustavo Martinez Moreno

Team MUC4

Lucas Rizzo Cesar

Yan (Jessie) Niu

Piyush Mediratta

Anton Zuanic

Clodagh Blain

Arthur Francois

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Team MUC5

Bartosz Radzikowski

Miryam Brotons Borrell

Henrique Santos Drebes

Alejandro Quintans Osés

Lacon Childe

Tatyana Komarova

Sachin Poovana Bollera

Gabriel Fuzzo

Tomas Schcolnik

Team MUC2

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Giovanni Crapulli

Anjori Jain

Yi-Ju Chen

Christopher Wall

Juan Alonso Catalá

Marvin Wenzel

Shanghai section

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Shanghai

Shanghai, Shanghai! <3 Words cannot explain how honoured and grateful I am to have had the opportunity to represent all of you these past 2 years. We have truly grown together, from strangers to family, through thick and thin and everything in between.

Thank you all for this incredible ride. We did not choose our section, but I could not have asked for a better group of humans. I've seen how far we've come together, and I can't wait to see what the future has in store for each and every one of us. This is not goodbye; we'll never really be apart - Shanghai is forever.

We've battled a pandemic, online classes, the infamous Attendance App, the COVID police, curfews, travel bans, and then some. But we've also had some EPIC sneaky So much love always, parties and Secret Encounters that have really allowed Cherie us to bond and become the cult that we are.

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GUCCI Team

Patrick Puno

Aishwarya Dev

Koji Ozawa

Sarah Zou

Juan Carlos Tapiador Ferrero

Matheus ​ de Melo Sá Roriz

Joaquin Urrutia Steinert

Nino Eradze

Maxime Frédéric C. van Cutsem

Scott Laurence Kemp

SHASHAS Team

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Ignacio Perez Jauma

Andrés Iberico Lozada

Ankush Kunzru Kunzru

Oriol Aragones Musté

Camila Victoria Notaro Williams

Alex Octavio Bayón

Giuseppe Izzo

Karina Ikhsan Ikhsan

Cherie Bong

Xavier Perez Oller

One Team, One Dream

Jorge Rottier Armengol

Christoph Laurenz Ittner

Luiz Eduardo Martins Varela

Jessie Naluai

Ursula ​ Benavides Haaker

Henry Hargreaves

Vimal Jacob Roy Jacob

Dorian Heyndrickx

Andrea Castellano

SH4RKS Team

Cassian Thomas Stanjek

Keara Cornell

Hamad Shawqi Sajwani

Juliana ​ Paes Elmais

Alexandra Cortes Ariza

Gaudenz Kripp

Subhajit Nag

Fernando Ortiz de Urtarán Delgado

William Tyler Caldwell

Jinwoo Sung

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Alpha Team

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Beatriz Alústiza Zavala

Edward Craig McNally

Carla Escobedo Jalife

Guilherme Santos Alonso Casagrande

Easaw George George

Alexandra Maria Louisse Odonohoe

Maria Delfina Blanco Etchegaray

Feng Li

Jorge Alejandro Álvarez de la Puente

Aviad Rabinovitch

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Most Likely To

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…become the CEO at a fortune 500 company Emma Sussex

…become the president of their own country Julio Wais

…get arrested Juan Alcala

…raise the biggest family Jamie Villanueva

…become a famous actor Tiernan Leal

…fall asleep in a board meeting Beltran De lá Viuda

…win a Nobel Prize Ines Serra

…appear on a reality tv show Joe Lobo

…become a stand-up comedian Scott Kemp & Henry Hargreaves

…marry a stranger in Las Vegas Juan Alcala

…become the richest person in the world Rodrigo Bours

…break some world record Alvaro Marcaida, Nick Borren, & Gabi Sánchez 50

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IESE Lifetime Experiences

Early birds events…

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Early birds trips…

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MBA nights…

MBA nights

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First Year: Silent Discos

2Y: Bresh… last one?

MBA days

MBA days…

La Liga players

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… and La Liga fans

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Spring Games

IESE Football Club

… and IESE Football Club Women

Cycling

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Healthy people : Be Active BCN, runners

Sailing

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Simplicity IESE Band

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Thanksgiving

COVID situations

Dia de Muertos

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Halloween…

Calçotada

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Diwali

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IESE Chinese Spring Festival

Japan Dinner - Yashima

Brazilian Carnival

Multiculti

last ones multiculti…

Asado Day

Ibiza

Nairobi Trek

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Dubai Trek

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Peru, UK, Madrid…

San Sebastian, Rome...

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Israel, Baqueira…

Tenerife…

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SKIESE…

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Lebanon

Portugal Final Trip

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and many more…

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Exchange…

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A way to learn, A mark to make, A world to change

Barcelona, 2022