How do companies organise their production, manage labour relations, find sources of financing, implement strategies for development? Are the answers to these daily challenges comparable for a start-up, a restaurant, a food retailer, the largest market in France, an industrial company, a company that introduced embedded donations in France?

The sixth and final video in our "Life in business" series gives you the chance to immerse yourself in the life of a large company. SEMMARIS operates the largest fresh produce market in the world: Rungis, near Paris.

Who are the stakeholders of this semi-public company (public entities, private firms, employees, supervisory bodies, etc.)? What challenges must it meet on a day-to-day basis (particularly in terms of logistics and hygiene) and in the longer term (expanding into e-commerce, internationalisation, etc.)? Find out the answers to these questions in a joint interview with the CEO of SEMMARIS and his Market and Human Resources Director.

Source: Banque de France – Citéco/la Cité de l’économie et de la monnaie

Audience: 12+

Language: english

Lenght: 4’03

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Published on 30 August 2017. Updated on 20 February 2024


How do companies organise their production, manage labour relations, find sources of financing, implement strategies for development? Are the answers to these daily challenges comparable for a start-up, a restaurant, a food retailer, the largest market in France, an industrial company, a company that introduced embedded donations in France?

Second to last video of our series. Discover a very small  business, the restaurant L’Épi d’or, in the district of Les Halles in Paris. Created in 1880, it is now run by enthusiastic manager and employees. They have to adjust to the different categories of clients, to an irregular activity and, in the longer term, to the transformation of the district where they are located.

How is this business managed on a daily basis? What are the challenges to be met: team size, positioning in terms of prices and products, financial balance, etc. ? How does the team  feel about its work? Answers in this cross-interview of the owner-manager and the waiter of the Epi d’Or.

Source: Banque de France – Citéco/la Cité de l’économie et de la monnaie

Audience: 12+

Language: english

Lenght: 4’39

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Published on 07 June 2017. Updated on 20 February 2024


How do companies organise their production, manage labour relations, find sources of financing, implement strategies for development? Are the answers to these daily challenges comparable for a start-up, a restaurant, a food retailer, the largest market in France, an industrial company, a company that introduced embedded donations in France?

With this fourth video of our series "Life in business", discover Microdon, a company that introduced in France the concept of community donations. As a start-up of the innovative financing sector, Microdon  offers an "embedded generosity" system, via rounding on purchases or rounding on wages.

How to develop daily relations with customers, companies and associations? What are the specificities, in terms of management and governance, that make Microdon a company of the social and community economy? What are its prospects for the future? Answers in this cross-interview of Microdon’s chairman-founder and its marketing director.

Source: Banque de France – Citéco/la Cité de l’économie et de la monnaie

Audience: 12+

Language: english

Lenght: 5’06

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Published on 03 May 2017. Updated on 20 February 2024


How do companies organise their production, manage labour relations, find sources of financing, implement strategies for development? Are the answers to these daily challenges comparable for a start-up, a restaurant, a food retailer, the largest market in France, an industrial company, a company that introduced embedded donations in France?

In this second video of our "Business life" series, discover Happydemics, a start-up that offers companies a survey technology. How did the idea of launching a new product come about? What is a business angel? A business incubator? How does a start-up team experience its work every day? How does it see its future? A few answers in this two-way interview of the founder and CEO of the start-up and its sales manager.

Source: Banque de France – Citéco/la Cité de l’économie et de la monnaie

Audience: 12+

Language: english

Lenght: 4’23

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Published on 31 January 2017. Updated on 20 February 2024


How do companies organise their production, manage labour relations, find sources of financing, implement strategies for development? Are the answers to these daily challenges comparable for a start-up, a restaurant, a food retailer, the largest market in France, an industrial company, a company that introduced embedded donations in France?

In the third video in our "Life in business" series, you will find out about Thuasne, a company specialised in the manufacture of stretch fabrics for use in sportswear and in medical textiles. Learn about an intermediate-sized enterprise company (ISE) that has been operating for more than a century.

How did the company overcome the crisis in the traditional textile industry? How did it manage to meet the challenges of innovation, competition and globalisation? And what part did the company’s 2,000 employees play in these changes? Find out the answers to these questions through a joint interview with the Group CEO and the  workshop manager of the Group’s Saint-Étienne plant.

Source: Banque de France – Citéco/la Cité de l’économie et de la monnaie

Audience: 12+

Language: english

Lenght: 5’08

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Published on 23 March 2017. Updated on 20 February 2024


They are heard every day in the media. And yet: who knows what economists actually do? Frequently interviewed on the news, they are rarely questioned about their profession, so the reality of their profession remains unknown. How do they work? What is the purpose of their work? In short: what is an economist?

In this video, Éric Monnet  shares his experience working as an economist at the Banque de France. His work involves  producing economic forecasts, writing policy decision memos,  taking part in international conferences and carrying out research in his  area of expertise, economic history,  including the history of national central banks. Thanks to his wide range of activities, he  is able to meet many economists, policy makers and academics in France and abroad.

This interview, held following a conference organised as part of the Économie aux Rendez-vous de l’histoire event in Blois, France, gives us the chance to really discover what working as an economist at a national central bank implies. Citéco also met two other economists to ask them the same questions: Nadia Jacoby et Olivier Passet.

Source: Banque de France – Citéco/la Cité de l’économie et de la monnaie

Audience: 14+

Language: french, subtitled in english

Lenght: 2’47

You can also find information on our conference on the profession of economist at the Rendez-vous de l’histoire 2016, the interviews (in french) of secondary school students from the Orléans-Tours education authority on how they perceive the profession of economist, as well as our interactive timeline on the history of economic thought and our 4 cross-interviews videos "Words of economists" (in french).


Published on 05 April 2017. Updated on 12 September 2019


They are heard every day in the media. And yet: who knows what economists actually do? Frequently interviewed on the news, they are rarely questioned about their profession, so the reality of their profession remains unknown. How do they work? What is the purpose of their work? In short: what is an economist?

In this video, Nadia Jacoby talks to us about her experience working as a lecturer and researcher with the Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. In  this position, she is required to teach and pass on her knowledge as well as  carry out research projects, which in her case focus on the industrial and innovation economies. It is a job that  enables her to meet a wide variety of people, from students and researchers to business leaders and  innovation stakeholders.

This interview, held following a conference organised as part of the Économie aux Rendez-vous de l’histoire event in Blois, France, gives us the chance to really discover what working as an economist in a university implies. Citéco also met two other economists to ask them the same questions: Olivier Passet and Éric Monnet.

Source: Banque de France – Citéco/la Cité de l’économie et de la monnaie

Audience: 14+

Language: french, subtitled in english

Lenght: 3’40

You can also find information on our conference on the profession of economist at the Rendez-vous de l’histoire 2016, the interviews (in french) of secondary school students from the Orléans-Tours education authority on how they perceive the profession of economist, as well as our interactive timeline on the history of economic thought and our 4 cross-interviews videos "Words of economists" (in french).


Published on 23 February 2017. Updated on 12 September 2019


They are heard every day in the media. And yet: who knows what economists actually do? Frequently interviewed on the news, they are rarely questioned about their profession, so the reality of their profession remains unknown. How do they work? What is the purpose of their work? In short: what is an economist?

To answer these questions, the Cité de l’économie et de la monnaie has met three economists. A series of short interviews, filmed at the end of a conference organised in the framework of the Economie aux Rendez-vous de l’histoire, enables you to concretely discover the profession of economist, from three different perspectives.

In this first video, Olivier Passet, head of economic analysis at Xerfi, presents his experience as an economist in the private sector. As a "child of the crisis", the emergence of mass unemployment and the rise of poverty played a decisive role in his career orientation. He recounts how he became convinced that getting involved in political and social life requires an understanding of economic mechanisms.

In the next videos, you will discover two other economists: Nadia Jacoby and Éric Monnet.

Source: Banque de France – Citéco/la Cité de l’économie et de la monnaie

Audience: 14 +

Language: french, subtitled in english

Length: 4’20

You can also find information on our conference on the profession of economist at the Rendez-vous de l’histoire 2016, the interview (in french) of secondary school students from the Orléans-Tours education authority on how they perceive the profession of economist, as well as our interactive timeline on the history of economic thought and our 4 cross-interviews videos "Words of economists" (in french).


Published on 06 January 2017. Updated on 12 September 2019


How do companies organise their production, manage labour relations, find sources of financing, implement strategies for development? Are the answers to these daily challenges comparable for a start-up, a restaurant, a food retailer, the largest market in France, an industrial company, a company that introduced embedded donations in France?

With Citéco find out, through this series of short videos, how 6 productive organisations go about meeting the daily challenges faced by companies: Biocoop, a local business; Happydemics, a start-up; Semmaris, a large company; Microdon, a social and responsible company; Thuasne, an export-oriented industrial company; and Épi d’or, a restaurant.

In each of these videos, interviews with the company manager and one of its employees provide a two-way perspective on the life of the company: what does the company do, how is it managed on a daily basis, what are its future prospects?

This first video immerses you in the world of a store, Biocoop, and shows you how the values defended by the brand are translated in terms of hierarchical organisation, management of shop opening hours and revenue sharing.

In subsequent videos, you will discover 5 other companies. Be patient, an upcoming episode of the series will soon be online...

Source: Banque de France – Citéco/la Cité de l’économie et de la monnaie

Audience: 12+

Language: english

Length: 4’30

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Published on 03 January 2017. Updated on 20 February 2024


Does the fact that two phenomena occur at the same time imply that one is the cause of the other? How to interpret this simultaneity, which economists, in particular, call a correlation? This is what a statistician explains to his cat Albert in this short video.

If the countries where the inhabitants consume the most chocolate are also those that count the most Nobel prizes, does eating chocolate make us all the more intelligent? The statistician points out that any correlation does not reflect a causal relationship. He warns against hasty conclusions and invites readers to use their judgment when reading the press or scientific publications. 

Source: Youtube « La statistique expliquée à mon chat » (Bruxelles)

Objective: Analysing a correlation, raising awareness of its difficulties of interpretation. While limiting the use of numbers, the video introduces the notions of correlation, causality, confounding factor. Through the figure of the cat Albert, the public is invited to think for itself and is thus introduced to statistical reasoning.

Audience: 12+

Language: French

Lenght: 4’49

 

 

To see other videos of the channel La statistique expliquée à mon chat.

On the same topic, do not hesitate to consult our quiz-dataviz “Getting data to talk” and our pedagogical guide "How to read infographies and datavisualisations?".


Published on 01 December 2016. Updated on 12 September 2019


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