HEROES

Interview with Sandra Einerhand, former Scientific Program Director at Danone and Explorer at Presans

by Staff Presans | Aug 31, 2022 | HEROES

Sandra Einerhand is passionate about science and innovation and likes to assist customers by bringing their products to market more efficiently, more sustainably, with benefits based on science, and with a clear story of enduring success.

The human: a type of node in the Internet of Things

by Clément Vidal | Mar 15, 2019 | HEROES

A perspective of the progress of humanity both dystopian and surprising by the philosopher Clement Vidal.

Gérard Mourou and his lasers of extreme power

by Staff Presans | Oct 17, 2018 | HEROES

Our Optical Fellow Philippe Aubourg, former President of the Société Française d’Optique, talks about the career of Gérard Mourou, Nobel Prize in Physics 2018.

Are entrepreneurs explorers ? Or is it the other way around ?

by Albert Meige | Jun 1, 2018 | HEROES

If I had another life, I would like to live the fascinating and heroic life of explorer and scientist Fridtjof Nansen.

Bill Gates, Hero of Capitalism and of Human Progress

by Jacques Knight | May 8, 2018 | HEROES

If history is not reduced to the action of great men, it would be illusory to try to understand it without being interested in them.

Hero Question Quest | 1. Musil

by Jacques Knight | Dec 3, 2016 | HEROES

"Who are your heroes?" — This is a question I never fail to ask in an interview. Some people like the question, some don't. Why do I always ask it? First of all, the hero question is always a meta-question. Beyond any list of names, the way in which we relate to this...

Think really big: Elon Musk

by Jacques Knight | Aug 31, 2016 | HEROES

Up to the early 1970s, our vision of the future was optimistic. Mankind, divided into two rival neo-European empires, was on track to build the titanic extension into space of its terrestrial habitat. This configuration proved unstable in the sense defined...

Straight Outta Maisons-Alfort: Xavier Niel

by Jacques Knight | Feb 24, 2016 | HEROES

At Presans, we like the idea of commandos. It captures a vital aspect of project-oriented management. When you think about it, everything great starts that way: the seminal force of a tightly-bonded team is a creative act we can witness in all historical moments of...