Internship:

This week we were invited to a kickoff event hosted at the Triennale Museum. This event serves to introduce the Casa Albini Project presented by Paola, the vice president of Fondaziones Franco Albini. Despite the whole presentation being in Italian and I could barely understand, I was able to get the main points that Paola was talking about. She introduced each of the three participants that will be working on the project. Each of them was from Politecnico Milano, a technical university here in Milan. Overall, the presentation was put together nicely. At the end of the presentation, Paola was delighted to see us. She will be stopping by the office next week for a presentation that Mason and I have been working on.

Class:

On Monday, we discussed the two statements released by the Business Roundtable, one in 1997 and the other in 2019. The question of the debate was whether the revised version was an empty rhetoric, or does will it bring change. The 2019 statement was a revision to address the stakeholders of the company and how they will change from focusing on the bottom line of shareholders. On Wednesday, we watched A Civil Action, a movie based on the real-life story of companies polluting the lake in Woburn, MA. I’m excited to hear about everyone’s thoughts and opinions on this movie next class period!

 

Culture Immersion:

On Saturday, I went to the archaeological city of Pompei. I didn’t know much about it except that a volcano erupted during the year 79 CE, destroying the city into ruins. What’s fascinating is how you can see how well the city was preserved. You can almost picture the different lives that the citizens of this city lived. There were streets of small houses for the ordinary, and then there were also enormous estates that housed wealthy families back then. Some of the houses had beautiful dining rooms, gardens, and courtyards. The whole time I felt like I was looking at a snapshot in history. When I see the casts of the ones who passed during this event, I can see what they were doing before their life was taken away. This place is definitely an underrated tourist attraction and I would highly recommend visiting Pompei.