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<strong>Eric Briys, Co-founder, Cyberlibris</strong>.<br /><br />Eric spent fifteen years in the academic world as a Professor of Finance. After having taught at CERAM, and then in Canada and the United States, he joined the Groupe HEC, chairing the Finance and Economics department, the Doctoral Program and the Institut Supérieur des Affaires (ISA).<br /><br />His main areas of research were in derivatives markets, insurance, risk and asset liability management. He has published some thirty scientific papers and eight reference finance and economics books. One of his books was awarded the Sunday Times Book of the Week distinction.<br /><br />Eric co-founded, in parnership with Roll and Ross Asset Management, an asset management firm, ARCAS, whose funds were the first equity and bond index funds ever proposed on the French market and an asset-liability management consulting firm, Dixon associates.<br /><br />He left the academic world to join the investment banking world in London. He headed the European Insurance & Reinsurance groups at Lehman Brothers, Merrill Lynch and Deutsche Bank.<br /><br />Eric co-founded < Cyberlibris (www.cyberlibris.com), the first European digital library dedicated to business schools, universities and corporations.<br /><br />Eric is a graduate of HEC and of the Stockholm School of Economics. He holds a PhD in economics from the University of Geneva. <br /><hr />
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En cette période de réclusion forcée, pourquoi ne pas emprunter les pas des écrivains de nos régions. S'évader un peu sans sortir. A vous de parcourir la Carte_Ecrivains Merci aux Editions Alexandrines pour leur inlassable et magnifique travail éditorial! Continue reading
Posted Mar 26, 2020 at Digital Musings
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« - Mais alors, si vous n'avez aucune confiance en Ptolémée, Toscanelli, Behaim et les grands cosmographes, si vous méprisez l'or, les perles et les épices, par la Sainte Trinité, qu'êtes-vous venu faire dans cette armada ? - Amiral, lui ai-je répondu doucement, je suis simplement venu voir... » Introduction Une question, une réponse. Tout est dit ou presque. L'auteur de la question n'est autre que Christophe Colomb, Amiral de la Mer Océane, vice-roi des Terres Nouvelles, un héros encensé par l'Histoire avec un grand h. Son interlocuteur, Jean (Juan) de la Cosa, n'a en revanche pas bénéficié de la même renommée. Et pourtant, sans cet « oublié de l'Histoire »1, propriétaire et capitaine de la célèbre Santa Maria2, point d'Amiral de la Mer Océane, point de vice-roi, point de navigation vers le Ponant pour atteindre le Levant. De Jean de la Cosa, on a presque tout oublié sauf son portulan, cette magnifique carte du monde qu'il dessina entre juillet et décembre 1500 au retour de ses audacieuses expéditions. Ce n'est toutefois (et heureusement) pas le seul artéfact de ses périples nautiques que Jean de la Cosa nous ait légué. La conversation avec Colomb en exergue de cette préface est extraite de son Journal de Bord, journal qu'il tint minutieusement, du 3 août au 25 décembre 1492 lors de leur première expédition. Ce Journal de Bord a été occulté par celui de Colomb dont nous n'avons pourtant qu'une connaissance indirecte via le texte du missionnaire dominicain Bartolomé de Las Casas3. En langue française, le Journal de Bord de Jean de la Cosa n'a fait, à notre connaissance, l'objet que de deux éditions : celle en 1957 des Editions de Paris et celle de Jean de Bonnot en 2003 dans laquelle le Journal de Bord est annexé à celui de Christophe Colomb. Le Journal de la Cosa, si peu connu, est pourtant diablement passionnant. Il n'est pas qu'un récit d'aventure maritime (et quelle aventure !). Il est aussi la narration au jour le jour de la relation souvent houleuse, toujours loyale, entre un très grand marin, cartographe, cosmographe, injustement ignoré, et son célébrissime commandant, le grand Colomb. Continue reading
Posted Feb 2, 2020 at Digital Musings
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Posted Dec 18, 2018 at Digital Musings
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Nous embrassons un capitalisme du gigantisme digital. Souvent aveuglément, toujours avec embarras. Les mots et expressions que nous employons en disent long sur la violence de notre relation à la prospérité numérique : "destruction créatrice", "disruption", "darwinisme digital", "uberisation", "big data", "monétisation", "the winner takes it all"... C'est finalement une bien étrange métallurgie que celle qui, à l'or des mots, préfère l'airain des néologismes bricolés à la hâte. Et si nous méditions sagement notre rapport au monde digitalisé ? La libre et instructive promenade que guide Éric Briys nous invite à flâner avec un historien, à faire l'école buissonnière, canif en poche, à reprendre le chemin de la bibliothèque, à apprendre à éplucher une banane, à franchir le cap de Bonne-Espérance, à écrire de la twittérature, à converser avec les robots, à prendre le pouls de la classe moyenne...et à ne plus confondre l'or et l'airain, pour, enfin, agir. Continue reading
Posted Jan 27, 2017 at Digital Musings
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Nous embrassons un capitalisme du gigantisme digital. Souvent aveuglément, toujours avec embarras. Les mots et expressions que nous employons en disent long sur la violence de notre relation à la prospérité numérique : « destruction créatrice », « disruption »,... Continue reading
Posted Jan 18, 2017 at Digital Musings
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Posted May 26, 2016 at Digital Musings
Every year, Warren Buffett, the Sage from Omaha, delivers his Annual Letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. What is so special about it? After all, tens of thousands of companies do the same. Each one produces an annual report with a... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2016 at Digital Musings
According to best-seller author, Seth Godin, you're either a Purple Cow or you're not. You're either remarkable or invisible. Make your choice. Cows are boring. Purple Cows are not. Purple Cow is a metaphor for something very special, not another... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2016 at Digital Musings
Daniel Kahneman is a faculty member at Princeton University and a fellow at Hebrew University. He is the winner of the 2002 Bank of Sweden Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (erroneously known as the Nobel Prize... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2016 at Digital Musings
Did you know that monkeys peel bananas from the bottom up (well to make things even more confusing this is the other way round since bananas grow upside down)? Anyway! If you assume that monkeys are banana experts (not a... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2016 at Digital Musings
I once heard on the radio that Swiss students went on strike because they wanted more scholarships and less student loans. Who indeed would pay interest charges when you can find legal ways to avoid them ? A scholarship is... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2016 at Digital Musings
"Our fine arts were developed, their types and usages were established, in times very different from the present, by men whose power of action upon things was insignificant in comparison with ours... In all the arts there is a physical... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2016 at Digital Musings
Management, these days, is full of corporate metrics that managers are urged to follow, to maximize or to minimize, in any case to outperform: EVA, CFROI, shareholder value, etc... to name a few. The theory underlying these catch-all metrics boils... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2016 at Digital Musings
The objectives we reach are rarely those we had set at the start. British economist and columnist John Kay,(www.johnkay.com), calls this salutary deviation "obliquity". The zeitgeist seems anything but oblique. Businesses and managers are asked to focus all their efforts... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2016 at Digital Musings
"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes" as Mark Twain is reputed to have said. There once was a so-called cottage capitalism. The emblematic tools of this cottage capitalism were the spinner's wheel, the weaver's loom, the nail-maker's... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2016 at Digital Musings
Averages are addictive. Whatever the quantity of interest (heights, weights, financial returns, interest rates, rainfall levels, temperatures, economic growth rates, budget deficits, sales, costs, income, wealth per capita, speed...) it is first summarized by its average. When it comes to... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2016 at Digital Musings
Wine tasting usually rhymes with friendship, memorable moments and harmony. It is hard not to remember the deep purple color, the unusual nose and blended flavor of a 1985 Côte Rotie Côte Brune. Wine is distinctly magic. It is a... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2016 at Digital Musings
In 1924 fascist leader Benito Mussolini won the Italian general elections for the first time. Just like many of their compatriots Italian couple Carlo and Giovanna Zannoni flew their country to escape the new horrendous regime. They settled in Moutiers,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2016 at Digital Musings
My friend, McGill University Professor of Economics, Reuven Brenner once wrote that prosperity is the consequence of one thing and one only: matching talent with capital, and holding both sides accountable. To prosper, people must indeed have access to capital.... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2016 at Digital Musings
Oddly enough, no commentator ever paid attention to the name of the building where the infamous Bernard Madoff exercised his talents. The epicenter of the global scam was located on the seventeenth floor of the Lipstick Building, a red granite... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2016 at Digital Musings
Have a look at your iPod or iPad, its base or its plug and read what it says: "Designed by Apple in California, Assembled in China." Interesting. Easy to rephrase: "Inspired in California, Perspired in China." Or, if you wish,... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2016 at Digital Musings
Most of us fall victim of the sunk cost fallacy. In short, a sunk cost is an expenditure made in the past that cannot be modified. Neither now nor in the future. A sunk cost is a cost that cannot... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2016 at Digital Musings
I once read Robert J. Barro's book: "Nothing is Sacred: Economic Ideas for the New Millennium." I like the title very much, especially the first part of it. Robert J. Barro is the Robert C. Waggoner Professor of Economics at... Continue reading
Posted Apr 27, 2016 at Digital Musings