“HEC Paris” and "Planet Workshops" would like to thanks the 350 participants who have honored us on March the 24, 2010 of their presence for the Rethink awards at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Paris.
These Awards recognize each year, businesses and students who were able to invent new business models to meet the challenges of sustainable development and transform the challenges of our times into opportunities for development, creating new products, services or creatives business models.
The award ceremony took place on March 24, 2010 at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry at 18:45 pm. The highlight of the night was a panel discussion moderated by Luc Evrard (Editor in Chief of a economy in Europe) on "Reinventing the Enterprise, Rethinking the Economy" with the exceptional presence of Michèle Pappalardo, General Commissioner Sustainable Development in the Department of Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea , John Mark Borello the managing director and chief executive of the group SOS-Philippe Hedde, General Manager Key Accounts IBM France-Alexander Michelin, Editorial Director and contained Windows Live and MSN and France-Yves Paccalet, writer, naturalist and philosopher.
We would like to especially thank Christine Oberdorff,the editor of Ushuaia TV, for being our emcee.
- The trophy of the great innovative business, submitted by Mr. Francois Thomazeau Allianz Group, has been awarded to Naandi an Indian Company, for its system of access to water for all.
- The trophy for the most innovative SMEs was awarded to Jean-Marc Borello from the group SOS Ardelaine for his work of nearly three decades between the wool industry and local development.
- And finally, the award for the best business plan of HEC's students was assigned by Ms. Benedicte Barbry from the group project Norauto Bat & Co, which aims to promote ecological UTIs materials through a distribution network reaching as many .
