A Breach in La Défense

France's corporate governance evolution

By Matthew Curtin

French companies are becoming genuinely multinational, as evidenced by recent appointments of foreign business leaders to replace underperforming chief executives of three CAC-40 companies.

Additionally, foreign investors are seeing concrete results in response to calls for corporate reform.

Sovereign funds - Interview with Philippe Favre

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UK adult stem cell researcher moves to France over 'funding lack'

A leading British adult stem cell scientist has announced he plans to quit the UK for France because he has not been given enough funding or support.

After a series of public warnings of a need for more funding, he has now decided to move to the University of Lyon in January to open the world's biggest institute devoted to cord blood and adult stem-cell research. He will take a 10-man research team from Newcastle with him, including his research partner Nico Forraz.
Speaking to Times Higher Education, Prof McGuckin said France offered a "much better environment" to cure and treat more people.
"The bottom line is my vocation is to work with patients and help patients and unfortunately I can't do that in the UK," he said. "France is very supportive of adult stem cells because they know that these are the things that are in the clinic right now and will be more likely in the clinic."

For Women Who Lead, a Forum of Their Own

By Steven Erlanger

The Women’s Forum for the Economy and Society—held in Deauville, France—included 1200 women and offered three days of lectures, panels and brainstorming on issues of the moment.

The Women’s Forum was the brainchild of Aude Zieseniss de Thuin, 58, a French businesswoman who once applied to go to the Davos economic forum, without success(...)Angry, she decided that Davos, with many fewer women than men, should have a more female-friendly analogue, and she created this forum three years ago as a private company. The idea was to give a voice to women, half of the population.

Areva Will Build Reactors in U.S.

By Rebecca Smith

France's Areva SA said it is forming a joint venture with Northrop Grumman Corp. to build nuclear-reactor vessels, steam generators and other heavy equipment at Northrop's Newport News, Va., shipyard.