ENPC MBA Alumni Blog

Dear fellow alumni,

If you’ve got a little time, a little ambition, a little desire to help and generate synergies around our school and alumni network, now is your chance! Join our team of motivated, dedicated ENPC MBA alumni working to better our network and the value of our MBA.

We welcome your participation in our upcoming general assembly next Thursday the 12th of May.  The meeting will be held at the school address: 15 rue de la Fontaine au Roi, 75011 Paris and will begin at 7 pm.

Elections to the administrative council and association office will also be held as required by the law of 1901 ( loi du 1er juillet 1901 relative au contrat d’association).  If your dues have been paid, you may run for office and/or vote for your preferred candidates.

 Looking forward to seeing you there,

The AAENPC MBA team

Dear fellow Alumni,

The ENPC MBA staff and the Alumni association of the ENPC MBA welcomed the new Executive MBA cohort last month with a  « Galette des Rois » evening.  It was a pleasure to meet and network with one more very international group. We reassured them, as I am sure you would, that as they endeavor a few too many sleep depraved nights, those hardships will bring reward and a grand sense of accomplishment.  Anything else we should add?   In any case, we wish them all the best of luck!

The MBA Alumni and Temple University jointly organized on September 9^th a networking event to welcome  the new cohort and

bring together alumni presently in Paris from the sister schools. Alumni from Paris, Casablanca and Temple were numerous as we gathered at the Maison des Ponts.

Thanks go out to Dean Jelassi, Donald Kirkwood, and Rebecca Beeman for their presence and presentations. We would also like to thank Mounir Beltaifa and Bridgers One for sponsoring this event.  

The 150th anniversary of Ponts Alliance took place yesterday in the Maison des Ponts (Paris, 11th, where our ENPC MBA is located too).

It was attended by almost 180 persons – in spite of the awful weather in Paris, from many different cohorts of Corps des Ponts, civil engineers, PhDs, and MBA graduates.

Fouad Awada about to unveil the bust

Fouad Awada, Ponts Alliance President, gave a word about how globalization had led the historical “Ecole Royale des Ponts et Chaussées” to open worldwide and to wider spans of excellence training, such as PhDs or MBAs. Philippe Courtier, head of Ecole des Ponts also recalled the creation of the School itself in 1747.

Bust of Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, first Ecole des Ponts et Chaussées director

As a souvenir,  a bust of Jean-Rodolphe Perronet, the first Director of the “Ecole Royale des Ponts et Chaussées” has been offered by Pierre Bourrier, former President of Ponts Alliance, to stand in the Maison des Ponts and to represent the tradition from our former building Rue des Saints-Pères.

Then it was time for a nice cocktail, where alumni could meet and chat, while the talented “fanfare” the Saints Pere’s Band played tunes.

our fanfare the Saint Peres' band

Last but not least, a “Livre d’or” has been especially published for this event, and was offered to all participants. It gathers witnesses and stories about the Ecole des Ponts alumni. As an alumni member, you can ask for your own copy by contacting Stéphane Dassé, permanent manager of the association.

Celebrate the 150th anniversary of our Alumni Association, Ponts Alliance which will be held at Maison des Ponts – 15, rue de la Fontaine au Roi, in Paris, France

Further details about the programme will be posted.

In order to get the invitation, you have to join Ponts Alliance by getting the association membership on www.ponts.org - if not already ! And if you have former class mates who are not part of the association yet, please let them know. It’ll help the association to get in touch with those “lost of sight” alumni and the anniversary will be a bigger success where everyone could get back in touch.

Hope to meet you there !

Dear Fellow Alumni,

This is a friendly reminder that tomorrow is the “Last Tuesday”, our monthly network event.
Join us starting at 7pm @ Bar de l’Hotel Mélia Vendôme 8 rue Cambon, 75001 Paris Métro Concorde.

Looking forward to seeing you there !
Mathieu Vaidis

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mathieu.vaidis@ponts.org

« Maîtriser les risques d’un contrat d’affaires »

L’association des anciens du MBA des Ponts vous invite à une conférence le 13 Janvier 2010 à 19h, accueil dés 18h30 à l’Hôtel Mélia Vendôme 8 rue Cambon, 75001 Paris – Métro Concorde.

Sophie Tatot Avocate à Paris et Nathalie Wardé, consultante à Genève-CH sur des opérations de production vous présenteront un aperçu des points essentiels du droit des contrats.

Public concerné

Dirigeants, managers d’équipes qui souhaitent prendre connaissance des principes de base applicables en droit des affaires ainsi que leur application dans l’environnement des affaires

Objectif et sujets clés

Cette conférence identifiera les points clés de la formation du contrat, les principes applicables en matière de validité des contrats ainsi que les éléments déterminants pour la réussite de leur négociation.

Sophie Tatot détaillera les règles applicables en matière de fixation du prix, invalidité, fraude, droits des tiers, rupture du contrat. Elle concentrera son intervention sur les implications juridiques et les solutions pour obtenir réparation d’une fraude ou d’une rupture du contrat.

Nathalie Wardé axera son intervention sur les principes de l’outsourcing, les contrats de fabrications dans le secteur de l’industrie pharmaceutique, de la cosmétique et de la nutrition médicale.

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The ENPC MBA Alumni are delighted to invite you to a Conference on the 13 of January, 2010 from 6:30pm at Bar de l’Hotel Mélia Vendôme 8 rue Cambon, 75001 Paris Métro Concorde.

Sophie Tatot, Lawyer in Paris and Nathalie Wardé, consultant in Geneva-CH in manufacturing operations  will present an overview of contract law essentials.

Target audience for this conference:
Managers, supervisors or team leaders who want to gain a basic knowledge of Business Law and how to apply it in a working business environment.

Objectives and major topics
This conference will identify the key elements of contract formation and contract strategies applying to validity and successful contract negotiations.

Sophie Tatot will detail rules of consideration, validity, illegality, the statute of frauds, third-party rights, and breach of contract. She will focus on legal implications of and remedies to fraud and breach of contract.

Nathalie Wardé will focus on outsourcing, contract manufacturing in the pharmaceutical industries and other sectors such as cosmetics and medical nutrition.

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NYC event at the French Consulate

Devenez Mécène !

A Sponsorship Opportunity

L’association des Anciens du MBA des Ponts, avec Ponts Alliance, organise une conférence-cocktail le 19 janvier prochain au Consulat de France à New-York, sous le Haut Patronnage de Monsieur le Consul Général Philippe Lalliot.

Le consulat nous héberge gracieusement dans ses salons de la 5^th Avenue, et Monsieur le Consul Général sera notre invité d’honneur.

Le thème de la conférence sera : « Ecole des Ponts – USA : how did ou build your bridge ? », partant du témoignage de trois ou quatre anciens des Ponts, MBA et ingénieurs, pour encourager échanges et retours d’expériences entre anciens expatriés ou américains, autour d’un cocktail.

Ponts Alliance et les anciens du MBA seraient honorés d’associer un partenaire français ou américain à cet événement, qui rassemblera autour de 80 personnes. L’événement pourrait devenir un rdv annuel de début d’année, et le mécénat pérenne. Les modalités du mécénat sont ouvertes, elles impliqueront notamment la communication sur le parrain avant, pendant et après événement, au moyen de logos, citations et présentation, y compris dans les médias de Ponts Alliance.

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The French Consulate in NYC will host the ENPC MBA Alumni association next January 19th 2010 for a conference and a cocktail party in its 5^th avenue salons. Philippe Lalliot, the French Consul, will be our guest of honour.

The theme of the conference will be : Ecole des Ponts – USA, how did you build your bridge ?, where 3 or 4 Alumni engineers and MBAs will present their business and to tell about their experience as business expatriates. Those speeches will be the basis for exchanges and networking around the cocktail party, with around 80 people.

If you are interested by sponsoring the event, Ponts Alliance and the MBA Alumni would be delighted to welcome you as an official sponsor. Hopefully, it will be a success and become an annual meeting in the Big Apple.

Please contact :

Sophie Pellaton-Gaudilllière

sophie.pellaton@ponts.org

Cell : 347 435 7111

I seized the opportunity to be a newyorker for a while in order to gather alumni from ENPC MBA but not only : about 13 alumni-engineers/ MBAs  joined for a musical dinner @ L’orange bleue, a mediterranean restaurant in Soho.

We all decided to make it happen again ! Michel talked about ice-skating at Rockefeller’s plaza…what else ??