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2020-2021, nous avons été secoués. La pandémie du Covid-19 est entrée dans notre vie de façon soudaine et a impacté nos vies privées et professionnelles.
Nous nous intéressons ici à l’impact qu’elle a eu sur un échantillon d’enseignants des HEC.
Nous découvrirons les nombreuses plateformes et outils qui ont été exploités pour passer d’un enseignement présentiel qui a basculé, du jour au lendemain, en distanciel. Nous avons consacré un long moment à les distinguer afin d’éclairer au mieux l’apport de chacun d’eux car la crise sanitaire a provoqué une accélération de l’usage du numérique et de l’enseignement à distance.
Vous découvrirez ceux dont les professeurs louent la performance et avec lesquels ils entrevoient des possibilités pour le futur. Une très grande aide a été fournie par le service informatique l’UDI envers lequel les professeurs sont très reconnaissants.
Outre les difficultés d’ordre technique, se présentent aussi les défis pédagogiques, organisationnels et socioaffectifs. Les professeurs semblent avoir répondu à tous ces défis en manifestant ingéniosité, imagination, ténacité qui leur ont permis d’assurer non seulement l’apprentissage, mais aussi le contact avec les étudiants. Tout en gardant, malgré l’énormité du travail à fournir, un certain équilibre, un certain bien-être préservant à la fois eux-mêmes et leur famille, malgré un stress bien compréhensible.
Dans cette période chahutée, il va sans dire que les émotions ont joué un grand rôle tant chez les professeurs que chez les étudiants. Les questions du sens, des moyens et des émotions se sont continuellement entrechoquées. Beaucoup d’enseignants comme d’étudiants vivent mal cette absence de contact ; il semblerait que les premières BAC soient plus durement touchés par le décrochage que les années précédentes. 
Un sujet polémique a aussi traversé les entretiens que nous avons menés : la tricherie dont on se demande si elle n’a pas été généralisée, posant des questions d’injustice, de déficit d’apprentissage. C’est en tout cas une difficulté à dénouer et à laquelle il faudra apporter des solutions.
Si cette crise était l’occasion de donner un élan de modernité à l’école supérieure, de la ré-enchanter en veillant de ne laisser personne sur le bord de la route…

Covid-19, Enseignement à distance, Professeurs --- Conséquences pandémie --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Gestion des ressources humaines

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Going through a global health crisis is never easy for companies, and even less so for SMEs. Although some sectors have been lucky enough to partially resume their activity under certain conditions, this is far from being the case for the B2B events sector, which is still at a standstill. This crisis has had repercussions on the financial cycle of the company. 

The objective of this thesis is to study the consequences of the Covid-19 crisis on the need for financial resources of SMEs in the B2B events sector.

First, I reviewed the literature on this topic. I took time to define what an SME is and what the B2B events sector is. I also described the VUCA environment, because it matches the environment we have to cope with during a global health crisis. This includes the operating cycle, the investment cycle and the financing cycle. I also addressed the financing solutions put in place by the state to help companies through this crisis. The pecking-order-theory has been explained too in order to understand the financing preferences of a company. The failure path of the firm has also been discussed to understand the bankruptcy process.

Secondly, I conducted a series of interviews, which enabled me to clarify the consequences of the Covid-19 crisis on the needs for financial resources of companies in the B2B events industry. With the aim of making the sample as representative as possible, I interviewed a certain number of people as possible from the B2B events sector: audio-visual companies, companies renting out rooms for all types of events (team-buildings, seminars, etc.), companies renting out equipment for events, brewers, caterers, as well as companies organizing events from A to Z.

As a result of this research and these responses, we were able to compile a list of recommendations that could help the sector emerge from the trajectory of failure associated with the Covid-19 crisis and that could be used if we were to experience a similar crisis again.

SMEs in the B2B events sector - VUCA environment - global health crisis - Covid-19 - consequences on the financial cycle - Pecking order theory - failure factors - recommendations --- Sciences économiques & de gestion > Comptabilité & audit

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How the immigration courts became part of the nation's law enforcement agency-and how to reshape them. During the Trump administration, the immigration courts were decried as more politicized enforcement weapon than impartial tribunal. Yet few people are aware of a fundamental flaw in the system that has long pre-dated that administration: The immigration courts are not really "courts" at all but an office of the Department of Justice-the nation's law enforcement agency. This original and surprising diagnosis shows how paranoia sparked by World War II and the War on Terror drove the structure of the immigration courts. Focusing on previously unstudied decisions in the Roosevelt and Bush administrations, the narrative laid out in this book divulges both the human tragedy of our current immigration court system and the human crises that led to its creation. Moving the reader from understanding to action, Alison Peck offers a lens through which to evaluate contemporary bills and proposals to reform our immigration court system. Peck provides an accessible legal analysis of recent events to make the case for independent immigration courts, proposing that the courts be moved into an independent, Article I court system. As long as the immigration courts remain under the authority of the attorney general, the administration of immigration justice will remain a game of political football-with people's very lives on the line.

Emigration and immigration --- Emigration and immigration law --- Immigration courts --- Political aspects. --- History. --- America. --- Department of Justice. --- FBI. --- Great Depression. --- Nazi propaganda. --- Trump administration. --- WWII. --- asylum. --- attorney general. --- case proceedings. --- executive branch. --- fatal consequences. --- fear. --- fifth column. --- history. --- human tragedy. --- immigration courts. --- independent system. --- injustice. --- law enforcement agency. --- laws. --- legal analysis. --- neutral. --- political. --- power. --- spies. --- war on terror. --- war.

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This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge network—representing 20-33% of the frontier knowledge producers. Second, using novel survey data and hand-curated life-histories of International Math Olympiad (IMO) medalists, we show that migrants to the U.S. are up to six times more productive than migrants to other countries—even after accounting for talent during one’s teenage years. Third, financing costs are a key factor preventing foreign talent from migrating abroad to pursue their dream careers, particularly for talent from developing countries. Fourth, certain ‘push’ incentives that reduce immigration barriers—by addressing financing constraints for top foreign talent—could increase the global scientific output of future cohorts by 42 percent. We concludeby discussing policy options for the U.S. and the global scientific community.

Macroeconomics --- Production and Operations Management --- Environmental Policy --- Emigration and Immigration --- Technological Change: Choices and Consequences --- Diffusion Processes --- Technological Change: Government Policy --- International Migration --- Geographic Labor Mobility --- Immigrant Workers --- Macroeconomics: Production --- Education: General --- Aggregate Factor Income Distribution --- Environmental Economics: Government Policy --- Migration, immigration & emigration --- Education --- Environmental policy & protocols --- Migration --- Productivity --- Income --- Climate policy --- Population and demographics --- Production --- National accounts --- Emigration and immigration --- Industrial productivity --- Environmental policy --- United States --- Emigration and immigration. --- Macroeconomics. --- Production and Operations Management. --- Environmental Policy. --- Emigration and Immigration. --- Technological Change: Choices and Consequences. --- Diffusion Processes. --- Technological Change: Government Policy. --- International Migration. --- Geographic Labor Mobility. --- Immigrant Workers. --- Macroeconomics: Production. --- Education: General. --- Aggregate Factor Income Distribution. --- Environmental Economics: Government Policy. --- Migration, immigration & emigration. --- Education. --- Environmental policy & protocols. --- Migration. --- Productivity. --- Income. --- Climate policy. --- Population and demographics. --- Production. --- National accounts. --- Industrial productivity. --- United States.

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This paper considers various dimensions and sources of gender inequality and presents policies and best practices to address these. With women accounting for fifty percent of the global population, inclusive growth can only be achieved if it promotes gender equality. Despite recent progress, gender gaps remain across all stages of life, including before birth, and negatively impact health, education, and economic outcomes for women. The roadmap to gender equality has to rely on legal framework reforms, policies to promote equal access, and efforts to tackle entrenched social norms. These need to be set in the context of arising new trends such as digitalization, climate change, as well as shocks such as pandemics.

Women''s Studies' --- Gender Studies --- Wage Level and Structure --- Wage Differentials --- Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy --- Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy --- Labor Discrimination --- Economic Development: Human Resources --- Human Development --- Income Distribution --- Migration --- Technological Change: Choices and Consequences --- Diffusion Processes --- Economics of Gender --- Non-labor Discrimination --- Health: General --- Education: General --- Gender studies --- women & girls --- Social discrimination & equal treatment --- Gender studies, gender groups --- Health economics --- Education --- Women --- Gender inequality --- Gender --- Health --- Sex discrimination --- Sex role --- India --- Sex discrimination in employment. --- Economic development. --- Gender equality. --- Women''s Studies'. --- Gender Studies. --- Wage Level and Structure. --- Wage Differentials. --- Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy. --- Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies: Public Policy. --- Labor Discrimination. --- Economic Development: Human Resources. --- Human Development. --- Income Distribution. --- Migration. --- Technological Change: Choices and Consequences. --- Diffusion Processes. --- Economics of Gender. --- Non-labor Discrimination. --- Health: General. --- Education: General. --- women & girls. --- Social discrimination & equal treatment. --- Gender studies, gender groups. --- Health economics. --- Education. --- Women. --- Gender inequality. --- Gender. --- Health. --- Sex discrimination. --- Sex role. --- India. --- Women in development.