For all of us non-financial professionals out there – and we are many! -, meetings with the CFO and other finance-literate colleagues sometimes feel like watching a movie in Inuktitut*, without knowing a word of the language. The business finance…
Some history In 2015, 196 countries and the European Union signed the Paris Climate Agreement[1], with the commitment to limit global warming to 1.5° compared to the pre-industrial era. Even if the method to achieve this is unclear, the commitment…
Are you thinking of investing in a company? Do you have stakes in an organization, and you wonder whether their upcoming projects are worth your money? Maybe you are driving a project, and you want to convince potential investors to…
Last summer, as I was wandering on a high plateau of the Cevennes, I discovered the story of Przewalski's horses. At the end of the 19th century, a colonel of the Russian imperial army observed herds of wild horses in…
Last March 8 was "International Women's Day", an initiative first launched in the United States in the early 20th century and later replicated around the world. The Soviet Union made it a holiday from 1921 to 1965, and it wasn't…
The link with ESG criteria December and Santa's ESG blunders are long gone - and after a few changes, investors have returned and Santa Inc.'s stocks have soared. In case you don't understand the connection, we wrote in December about…
Article published in " Finance et Gestion " N°395, January-February 2022. How does training allow CFOs to increase their capacities and their impact? Like a futuristic comic book hero, does the augmented CFO have bionic eyes to calculate without an…
From the construction of a warehouse to the launch of a new product line or the reorganization of a company, project management plays a fundamental role. Far from being an option, it is necessary to respect the budgetary, temporal, social…
Optimism is the tendency to see the glass as half full rather than half empty, and it is generally coined as a positive trait. But in project management - and investments - optimism can lead to unexpected outcomes. When companies…
"Learning to focus on the positive in an unstable world" is the reason Anne Frisch created AQUAFIN. She explains how she helps employees to have a positive impact on their company. Do you believe that everyone in a company can…