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Société à mission : comment s'engager dans cette démarche exigeante avec enthousiasme ?

Céline Vienne
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La société à mission nous a donné un cadre pour faire des choix.
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Comment monter son projet professionnel dans un autre pays que le sien ?

Alan Diaz
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Entreprendre dans un nouveau pays, c'est comme entreprendre sur un nouveau marché : c'est difficile mais pas impossible.
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Comment impacter le domaine médical quand on échoue en médecine ?

Amélie Godard
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Je suis bien contente d'avoir échoué en médecine
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Comment rendre attractif son projet scientifique auprès d’un public non initié ?

Diane Potart
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J'ai appris à vulgariser mon projet auprès de lycéens mais aussi d'investisseurs
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How to commercialize a deeptech research project and turn it into a product or service that will help people ?

Navid Mahmoudian
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Don't fall in love with your technology!
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Comment faire financer sur le court-terme un projet TRÈS long-terme ?

Chloé Devillard
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Il faut convaincre les investisseurs que ce que l'on fait ce n'est pas de la science-fiction !
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How to launch a company as a researcher, living in a foreign country?

Brij Mohan Lal Srivastava
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France is a great destination for deep-tech startups!
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Comment se sentir légitime en tant qu’entrepreneur deep-tech quand on vient du monde de la recherche ?

Alexandre Bancet
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Avant de me lancer, j’avais le syndrome de l’imposteur.
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Comment travailler sur ses modes de pensées pour avancer dans sa voie professionnelle ?

Romain Bet
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L’entrepreneuriat, c’était loin d’être la suite logique dans mon parcours.
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How to undertake your research project?

Alexandre Nguyen
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Pourquoi ne pas sortir ces outils du labo et en faire un projet entrepreneurial ?
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How do you get involved with your work when you are a freelancer?

Mathilde Billeret
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Ce n’est pas parce qu’on travaille dans l’impact que tout est rose
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How to transform your convictions into actions in order to be aligned?

Coline Didier
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Si ce n’est pas moi qui le fait, qui d’autre le ferait?
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How do you join an impact structure and become integrated into it when you come from a traditional sector?

Héloïse Arnold
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C'est sain de se poser régulièrement la question de l'alignement entre ses valeurs et celles de l'entreprise dans laquelle on travaille.
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How do you keep your creative flame alive when you are going through hard times in the launch of a project?

Sébastien Henry
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Prendre 20 minutes par jour pour faire une activité qui vous met en joie, c’est comme mettre une touche de parfum dans votre journée
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How can you turn your entrepreneurial past into a strength when you become a manager in a large group?

Fanny Auger
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Une chose que j’ai apprise dans l’entrepreneuriat et que j’ai réussi à transférer à mes équipes, c’est le droit à l’erreur.
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Transition Sup' - How to reinvent the well-established university model to meet today's challenges?

Jean-Marc Ogier
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Young people are looking for meaning. We want to break out of the disciplinary silos to train them for the major issues of tomorrow
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Transition Sup' - How to accelerate the transition of institutions by changing the rankings?

Hortense Foulon
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One of the obstacles to institutions taking action is the fear of losing places in the major rankings, which are very prescriptive. However, the evaluation criteria they use are counterproductive in relation to the challenges of the ecological and social transition. If we manage to change the major rankings, we will change all higher education institutions.
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Transition Sup' - How to engage the new generations in the service of the ecological and social transition, within a school?

Anne-France Piteau
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Our goal is to transform our core business to give students all the keys they need for the world of tomorrow
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Transition Sup' - How to engage your university in an ecological transition when you are a student?

Antoine Philippeau
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To talk to students, you need students
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Transition Sup' - How to engage all the stakeholders of a school in a collective vision for the ecological transition?

Francois Collin
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The risk of my job is to become an ecological guarantor. To avoid that, you have to succeed in engaging people around your project.
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How can you regain confidence in your project when you don't get the grants you expected?

Thomas Comtet
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I had to regain confidence in myself and in my project, and be convinced of our impact.
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How to learn to listen to yourself in order to find the DNA of your project?

Pascaline Rougié
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Every time I listened to my fears, I found myself in complicated situations.
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How do you reconcile impact and growth when you're looking to start an entrepreneurial venture?

Charles Moury
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You have to accept that you won't find the answer right away and that you will be uncertain.
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How to validate your business model from the beginning of your project?

Arthur Auboeuf
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Not having an eco-model is taking the risk of losing the passion
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How to make self-knowledge a driving force for entrepreneurship?

Laetitia Blondel
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Taking time for yourself also allows you to explore new ideas
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How do you create an impact project when you work in an impact company?

Garance Aulagne
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How do you start your conversion as an organic farmer?

Nathalie Cornet
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Dare to experiment and trust your feelings
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How to convince your boss to raise awareness of the change?

Sylvain Thevand
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To convince my boss, I wanted to talk to him about the man he had in front of him and not the employee
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How can you instil your values in a large company?

Eva Combles
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The company is a huge playground and every employee has power over the company.
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How can you surround yourself with an army of volunteers when you are alone on your project?

Clémence Monvoisin
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Meeting in real life has been the foundation for launching our volunteer community
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How to turn the cultural rejection of society into a strength for your company?

Elmine Kouyaté
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I have a deep sense of belonging having been able to find my culture in my work and I feel at peace when I talk about it.
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How to become an entrepreneur when you come from the public sector?

Sigrid Berger
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Just because you've been incubated once doesn't mean you don't need it afterwards
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How to be a REALLY responsible communication agency?

Sébastien Faure
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It is almost a question of survival to be demanding about the choice of your clients
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How to reconcile ethical business and consumption?

Marie Viard-Klein
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Never forget why we do things
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How to implement a truly responsible communication within your company?

Mégane Forestier
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Communicating responsibly is a real work in progress
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How to go from the idea to the object while respecting its ethics?

Samuel Coste Chauvin
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We learn more easily from our failures than from the success of others
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How do you say no to the obvious path after business school to a career with impact?

Ondine Vernier
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In business school, we are trained to go to large groups
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BEST-OF Entrepreneurial Journey #2: How to start a project with zero euros?

Anaïs Gorgelin & Marianne Figarol
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We were young, we had no capital, no savings and no family to help us. Not even an idea. But a problem to solve!
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BEST-OF Entrepreneurial Journey: How to become an entrepreneur when you don't feel legitimate?

Minashe
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What does it cost to try?
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How can you build your business without knowing exactly where you are going?

Evelyne Degueurce Nogues
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I really knew what I wanted to do because I tested it emotionally and sensorially
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How can you not give in to the sometimes tempting proposals of investment funds in order to ensure healthy and organic growth?

Elissa Regnier-Vigouroux
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We have chosen to focus on strengthening our profitability rather than on the strong valuation of our company
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How does freelance status allow you to dedicate time to impactful assignments?

Blandine
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That's the great strength of freelancing, you work for yourself, so you can say yes but also no.
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How can you keep your self-confidence after a career change?

Laura Liger
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I assume that we all have transferable skills
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How does permaculture allow you to rethink your way of doing business?

Ferdinand Richter
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I started Ecosia France by applying permaculture principles to a tech company, to see if it worked
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How can we create a corporate culture where everyone finds meaning?

Anais Georgelin
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Meaning at work is subjective. It is not the same for you as for me. Once we've said that, we have to try to find out what gives meaning to each of us
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How can one stick to one's personal ethical commitments in a pro-elitist environment?

Jordan Ravindirane
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BEST-OF CHRISTMAS: How to combine a fulfilling professional life with personal life constraints?

Laure from Ticket for Change
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How to create a solid foundation for the integration of new people into an organisation?

Cassandre Bachellier
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How to move from a competitive situation to a trusting partnership?

Lydwine Thibaut
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Transparency has made it possible to free up dialogue between partners and, above all, to create a shift in posture from mistrust to trust
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BEST-OF CHRISTMAS: How can you not encourage consumption when you sell products online?

Marie Nguyen
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How do you start an intrapreneurship in the finance sector?

Philippe Taffin
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Finance is a real lever to change behaviour and the way companies will evolve in the right direction
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How to get involved in a cause in your company when you are an employee?

Olga Abdala
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Engagement must be everywhere, as inequalities are everywhere.
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How can you change the name of your organisation while maintaining its reputation?

Céline Danhier
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Changing the name of your organisation is not a trivial act.
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How can I find a meaningful job?

Lou Welgryn
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My classmates went into consulting or finance but I didn't fit in at all.
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How can you write a book about your professional project if you have never done it before?

Joséphine Bouchez
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I didn't trust myself, I had to get over my impostor syndrome.
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How can you be confident as an entrepreneur if you didn't go to engineering or business school?

Noëlle Papay
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I can't play at being someone else.
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How to bounce back after the departure of its co-founder?

Deborah Prado
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With my partner, the mayonnaise took off!
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How can we put people back at the heart of corporate governance?

Solenn Douard
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The crisis has given us the opportunity to radically change the rules of the game by implementing our deepest convictions.
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How to transform the role of a patron from funder to co-constructor?

Marie Astrid Raoult
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For us to have a powerful impact, we need to combine our strengths.
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How to reconcile economic efficiency and the social mission of the company?

Christophe Audouin
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If we really want to change things socially, we have to be able to talk in terms of mass value rather than ratios and percentages
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How to distribute value among its stakeholders?

Amandine Albizzati
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We wanted to create a citizen's reappropriation of the energy issue
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How can we reconcile ourselves with our relationship with time when we want to live and do everything?

Elsa Sayagh
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When you throw yourself into all the fronts at once, you dilute your energy, you disperse your forces, you get exhausted and you don't necessarily make progress on the projects that count.
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How to create a business model for an eco-designed and sustainable product?

Jean-Sébastien Tronchon
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The transformation of traditional economic models raises the difficulty of transforming our mental models.
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How to set up a social entrepreneurship project with little money?

Mariam N'diaye
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Sharing good travel tips with as many people as possible so that travel is accessible to all!
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How can the aspirations of employees be used to create a company's raison d'être?

Marie and Audrey
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Ikigai brings together 4 pillars: what I love to do, what I am good at, what the world needs, and what I could get paid for. It was perfect!
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How to make a professional turn towards a self-managed organisation after 20 years in a large global group?

Anne Gerset
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This openness to change has allowed me to find a balance between my professional life and my values
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How can you mobilise people around your project?

Idriss Laouali Abdou
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First of all, you have to have a project that motivates you, that takes you by the guts and that makes sense.
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How do you get into a community service career as a student?

Achraf Manar
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You always have to remember that for any project, you have to put people at the heart of it. And that means spending time building solid relationships, understanding the history of those around you, understanding what drives them, what upsets them, what gives them hope.
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How can you do business without raising funds in times of pandemic?

Marie Belile
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It is our will to keep our independence on the whole brand and to be master of our ethical choices at any time.
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How do you make sense of product prices when you are trading on impact?

Coline Burland
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Tomorrow we will no longer say I'm going to do my shopping but I'm going to pay my producers.
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How can you find your legitimacy when you take over the management of an existing association shortly after its creation?

Charlotte Porez
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I had to tame the symbolism that I put on the management function: for me, an association director was a superwoman who knew how to do everything.
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How to develop a creative corporate culture?

Elisa Rummelhard
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reativity is a muscle that must be strengthened individually and collectively to create value within the company.
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How can you relocate to France without changing the price of your product?

Maëlle Chassard and Igor Krinbarg
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How to raise funds to scale up when you are a SSE start-up?

Jean Moreau
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First prove by A+B that it works, and once you have a proof of concept, go and get funding to scale it up
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How to run a social impact project as an intrapreneur abroad?

Aurélien Boyer
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I wanted to use my skills from business school for social impact projects
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How to launch a project in a declining sector and in the midst of a global pandemic?

Loïc Yviquel
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You have to have the spark in yourself to be able to ignite it in others.
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How can you turn your city into a green city while saving money?

Damien Carême
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The political responsibility of a mayor is to implement solutions, not just talk about them
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How to launch an impact start-up within a state administration?

Gaëlle Toledano
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Surround yourself well, know how to delegate and surround yourself with knowledge that is complementary to your own
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How do you entrust and leave your company when you have founded it (and it is doing well)?

Julie Pouliquen
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It is important to think about creating the conditions for a potential departure of the founder of the company because a company is a bit like a child, once it has been brought into the world, it must be allowed to emancipate itself.
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How do you create a social impact business enterprise in a sector dominated by multinationals?

Johan Bonnet
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We have found a model that allows these two circuits to be complementary and not in conflict.
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How can you not encourage consumption when you sell products online?

Marie Nguyen
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I don't define myself as a born entrepreneur, but as a curious person who wanted to have a real role.
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How can you run a project within a company without being an entrepreneur?

Salomé Dansou-Morel
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You have to carry your project and feel legitimate just like an entrepreneur at the helm of his company.
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How to design your dream job by becoming an intrapreneur?

Etienne Thouvenot
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You have to listen and be open to criticism in order to adapt your proposal
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How to be a growing startup and work 4 days a week?

Camille Fauran
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It was quickly realised that the 4-day week highlighted everything that was dysfunctional or just about working in the organisation
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How do you replicate your business in a city you don't know at all?

Emmanuel Bardin
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If you wait until everything is well organised and secure, there is a risk of never getting started
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How to differentiate in a competitive market?

Priscilla Samyn and Nelle Guilleux
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We used to feel illegitimate for many reasons that now seem trivial.
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How to create a powerful brand?

Anthony Bourbon
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Make a brand that is consistent with you, so that you can talk about it well.
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How can you have a positive impact with your company at every link in the chain?

Thomas Lemasle
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We challenge our various stakeholders above all on ecology
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How to develop transparent and fair remuneration policies?

Emmanuel Druon
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The question of remuneration hides the question of the relationship we have with work
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How to set up a learning organisation in a very large company?

Cécile Fontbonne
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Everyone is a bearer of knowledge for others.
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How can manufacturers be pushed to change the composition of their products?

Serge Hercberg
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Before, there were incomprehensible tables on the packaging, designed to avoid giving real transparency to the food: this had to change
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How can you avoid suffering from loneliness when you undertake a project alone?

Sebastien Melin
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Learn from the experiences of others
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How can you develop your civic commitment by supporting organisations of general interest?

Thibault Lamarque
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It is important to be consistent in engaging employees.
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How can we find our way by letting ourselves be guided by sense and chance?

Léa Pozzi
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Our studies can have an impact on a career path that we had not imagined!
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How to improve your ecological footprint by reducing your carbon footprint?

Antoine Lemarchand
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If you want change in a company, you need ambassadors.
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How to federate plural communities around an idea?

Florence Amardeilh
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We are keen to get all the stakeholders on board, so that this project becomes theirs too.
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How can gender parity be integrated into decision-making bodies?

Elisabeth Richard
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Progress is only made by measuring.
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How can an entrepreneurial citizen dynamic emerge on a territory?

Cécile Dupré La Tour and Sophie Perrot
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We start with people's dreams!
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How to set up an open and shared governance with its employees?

Pierre Dubuc, Openclassrooms
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It's OK not to know and to ask questions
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How to integrate a societal mission into the heart of the company?

Claude Fromageot
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We were able to get all the employees on board!
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