Here are two laws that should question a few paradigms in company management and finance. Applied to company management those two laws bring few questions.
Christian Fournier
Christian Fournier, (French) chartered accountant studies completed by the HEC EMBA, he has been in various finance director positions in global telecom and services companies. He researched and participated to several globalisation experiences from which he wrote a book “Globalisation – adapter l’organisation de son entreprise face à la mondialisation”.
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