Denis Payre is a French entre­pre­neur who has built two glob­al, fast grow­ing and inno­v­a­tive com­pa­nies: soft­ware com­pa­ny Busi­ness Objects, now a glob­al divi­sion of SAP; and e‑logistic com­pa­ny Kiala, now a glob­al divi­sion of UPS. He was involved in the Nas­daq list­ing of Busi­ness Objects and togeth­er with his part­ner, was named “Best Entre­pre­neur” in Busi­ness Week in 1996, next to Steve Jobs and Steven Spiel­berg. Denis Payre has also been involved in the pub­lic debate for over 25 years. He found­ed Crois­sance Plus to help cre­ate a bet­ter envi­ron­ment for high growth and inno­v­a­tive com­pa­nies in France and in Europe. He obtained the cre­ation of wide­ly used BSPCE to help share the val­ue cre­ation with employ­ees. Denis Payre has been a mem­ber of the French Com­pe­ti­tion Author­i­ty. He is cur­rent­ly head­ing Nature and Peo­ple First, a devel­op­er of ener­gy stor­age solu­tions for the ener­gy tran­si­tion based on the well proven pumped hydro­elec­tric stor­age tech­nol­o­gy. He also cre­at­ed this com­pa­ny which is active in France and the USA. In this con­text, he has been con­front­ed with unbal­anced and uneth­i­cal inter­na­tion­al free trade rules. He has decid­ed to pub­lish Le Con­trat Mon­di­al (the Glob­al Con­tract) in 2021 to describe these sit­u­a­tions and their con­se­quences and to sug­gest solutions.

Dis­cus­sants: Feli­cia ARAGAO (EPOG+, Major A), Miloš KUZMANOVIĆ (EPOG+, Major A), Muskan NAVEED (EPOG+, Major B).

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Relat­ed documents

Denis Payre (2020), The Glob­al Con­tract, The Path to Putting Peo­ple First Short Sum­ma­ry, work­ing paper.	PDF
Denis Payre (2021), “Chap­ter Sum­maries”, Work­ing paper. Orig­i­nal book: Denis Payre (2021), Le con­trat mon­di­al, First.	PDF