Yvan Allaire at Davos:
This year, the 40th World Economic Forum topic was "Improve the State of the World: Rethink, Redesign, Rebuild."
Yvan Allaire was panellist on the session "Rethinking Values in the Post-Crisis World".
Alongside Yvan Allaire, five other business leaders and thinkers where present to discus the matter: Thomas H. Glocer, Chief Executive Officer, Thomson Reuters; Yasuchika Hasegawa, President and Chief Executive Officer, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company; Hartmut Ostrowski, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Bertelsmann; Jim Wallis, Editor-in-Chief and Chief Executive Officer, Sojourners and Muhammad Yunus, Managing Director, Grameen Bank, Bangladesh.
The session was animated by James H. Quigley, Global Chief Executive Officer, Deloitte.
February 2010
Year 2009
Promotional events and press release:
- Official launch: The book has been formally launched on June 10th at the International Economic Forum of the Americas held in Montreal. (see pictures)
- Television interview: the authors were invited on June 15th (at 18h30 on RDI channel) to present the book in an interview with Mr. Gérald Fillion, financial analyst at Radio-Canada and RDI, at the program "RDI en direct sur l'économie". (watch the interview)
- Television interview: the authors were also invited on June 30th (at 16h30 on The Business News Network) to present the book in an interview with Ms. Kim Parlee, at the program "The Close". (watch the interview)
- Radio interview: the authors were invited on June 13th (at 12h15 on 95.1 FM) to present the book in an interview with Mr. Michel Lacombe at the program "Ouvert le samedi".
- Forget, Dominique. 2009. "Discipliner le capitalisme". Jobboom Le Magazine, Vol 10, No 9, October 2009. (read this article)
- Schachter, Harvey. 2009. "After the crisis, a call for drastic reforms". The Globe and Mail, July 29th. (read this article)
- Vailles, Francis. 2009. "Des experts suggèrent de plafonner les salaires des PDG". La Presse (Montreal), July 6th. (read this article)
- Bérubé, Gérard. 2009. "Des caisses Frankenstein". Le Devoir (Montreal), June 28th, p. B1. (read this article)
- André Dubuc, André. 2009. "Quand l’entreprise perd ses valeurs, elle devient un lieu de mercenariat". Les Affaires, (Montreal), June 27th, p. 8-9. (read this article)
- Desrosiers, Éric. 2009. "La crise offre l’occasion de revoir les bases du modèle économique, écrit Yvan Allaire". Le Devoir (Montreal), June 27th, p. A7. (read this article)
- Gagné, Jean-Paul. 2009. "Le capitalisme ne se guérira pas tout seul". Les Affaires (Montreal), June 20th, p. 10. (read the article)
FI PRESS
Montreal
Television interview: Yvan Allaire was invited on February 21st, on the program "Planète Terre", to present Black Markets and Business in an interview with Jean-François Lisée, Executive Director of the Center for International Studies and Research (CERIUM). (watch the interview)
January 2010
May 2010
Silver Medalist at the 2010 Independent Publisher Book Awards: New York, 25th May. Black Markets and Business has won the silver medal at the 14th annual Independent Publisher Book Awards, in the "political and economic" category. Almost four thousand titles, from eight countries, were in competition this year.
December 2010
The new book of the professors Yvan Allaire and Mihaela Firsirotu:
Propos de Gouvernance... avant, pendant et après la crise financière de 2007-2008
Available in Quebec's librairies and very soon on Amazon.
January 2011
The authors Yvan Allaire and Mihaela Firsirotu at the 2011 Davos Summit:
As a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Council on the Role of Business in the 21st Century, Yvan Allaire puts forth several proposals to change radically the way capitalism works.
Read the document (PDF)
June 2010
The french version of Black Markets and Business Blues:
Plaidoyer pour un Nouveau Capitalisme: sur les causes profondes des crises financières et sur les moyens de s'en sortir.
