On PowerPoint, a businessman holds his head in his hands.
The camera struggles to follow Jacques-Henri Eyraud.
He slipped through the rows of the amphitheater, microphone in hand.
The president of the OM distributes envelopes to the students of Sciences-Po, circumspect: “You should feel a slight pressure because the money which is there is mine!
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This is the first course of the semester and students registered in "Initiation to entrepreneurship" have a week to "start a legal business."
Jacques-Henri Eyraud gave them between zero and 50 euros.
Some row, others are a hit, like this group which earned nearly 700 euros by selling cacti to other students.
“We show that the starting amount has no impact on the result,” says Jacques-Henri Eyraud.
Often times, those who started with nothing get the best results.
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Does the metaphor apply to OM's lower cost transfer window?
"It has nothing to do with", cuts "JHE".
At Sciences-Po, he talks little about his daily life as a club leader.
This course is his “oxygen bubble”, outside of football: “In 2016, I gave up everything to chair OM, except this teaching.
I needed to be in contact with brilliant young people to recharge my batteries!
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Not this year: the course is being held online due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“It's more than frustrating, sighs Jacques-Henri Eyraud.
Teaching is about looking students in the eye and interacting with them first.
"His course is not a classic lecture," describes Pavel Afanasiev, a former student turned teaching assistant.
He asks questions, initiates debates with the students.
»At the end of the semester, they move on to practical work.
The exam consists of writing a monograph on an entrepreneur or proposing a start-up project.
One of the institution's most popular courses
"I presented the project of a connected boxing room, but I did not think I would develop it," says former boxer Sarah Ourahmoune, a student at Sciences-Po between 2008 and 2013. Jacques-Henri wrote to me and m 'helped start my business.
The Olympic vice-champion then developed a connected gloves project within the Sciences-Po incubator.
She now runs a company that offers in-company training.
“Jacques-Henri saved me a lot of time,” she concludes.
Like her, many "sciencespistes" now dare to get started.
“In 2008, we had around ten students a year who were interested in entrepreneurship.
There are a thousand today, ”enthuses Maxime Marzin, director of the Center for Entrepreneurship at Sciences-Po.
With 350 registered last year, this course is, according to him, “one of the most popular in the house.
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This was not necessarily the case in 2005, when "JHE" gave its first "method lectures."
"Then boss of Sporever-Media 365, he had come up against some" young idiots ", as qualifies Sébastien, graduate of the Institute of political studies.
“He repeated the formulas of winners and did not understand that we dream of something other than to be successful in business.
"Louis, one of his comrades, tackles in turn:" It was generally windy.
"He remembers a role-playing game" big guignolesque "where he played a business leader who" had to swallow a 10% drop in wages to two trade unionists.
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Louis had failed.
But it doesn't matter, because Jacques-Henri Eyraud likes Nelson Mandela's formula: “I never lose.
Either I win or I learn.
This is valid at Sciences-Po as in the Clasico.