The AUC School of Business offers a wide range of graduate and undergraduate programs centered on the themes of entrepreneurship, family business, responsible business and economic development. As the school’s knowledge portal, Business Forward highlights the latest developments and trends happening within these broader themes through diverse content covering different fields and industries.
Entrepreneurship
Responsible Business
Family Business
Economic Development
The AUC School of Business offers a wide range of graduate and undergraduate programs centered on the themes of entrepreneurship, family business, responsible business and economic development. As the school’s knowledge portal, Business Forward highlights the latest developments and trends happening within these broader themes through diverse content covering different fields and industries.
Entrepreneurship
Responsible Business
Family Business
Economic Development
Entrepreneurship
The birth of CinemaTech in Egypt
The entrepreneurship ecosystem in the MENA region has been booming over the last few years, with new and exciting projects coming to life all around us. As a result, several industries, traditionally assumed to continue [...]
[Video] Egypt’s entrepreneurial environment in the age of COVID-19: Experts share their thoughts
On December 14, three experts from Egypt and abroad came together at Business Forward’s annual event –the first ever to be held online- to discuss how Egypt’s SMEs community rode through the shocks of the COVID-19 [...]
Op-ed: Entrepreneurship education to reap the potential harvest of a young population
With the second wave of COVID-19 soaring in the background, Global Entrepreneurship Week took place from 16-22 November 2020 celebrating 40,000 activities that involved 20,000 partner organizations and 10 million people in 180 countries. The [...]
Responsible Business
Closing ceremony of social responsibility campaign awards responsible business models
Inside Ewart Hall at the AUC Tahrir Campus, on March 30, 2022, the closing ceremony of the AUC School of Business’s campaign on responsible business ‘This is how I moved my #BusinessForward’ took place, with [...]
How Vodafone Egypt shapes its corporate responsibility to enable inclusive and sustainable digital societies
With global environmental issues becoming a matter of concern for all countries of the world, small startups, as well as corporates, are paying more attention to the impact of their businesses on the environment and [...]
Our factories to be carbon neutral by 2025, says L’Oréal Egypt Managing Director
L'Oréal Group is the largest beauty and cosmetics company in the world. It was founded in 1909 in France, and has been growing and expanding tremendously in the world markets since. Aware of the sheer [...]
Family Business
Generations, challenges, and love: family businesses over the years
Listen to the article “Once you leave the office, you disconnect so you don’t bring business to home. We’ve learned to separate between work and family life when we sit together as family [...]
[Podcast] A fifty-year-old family business story
Listen to the story of Menatec, an Egyptian adhesives company, from its second-generation CEO Hakim Meshreki who combines both the practical family business experience with the academic and research perspective about family business. Meshreki, also [...]
Al Manar Group unlocks the secrets of a successful family business
Listen to the article Of all models of business organizations, family businesses remain an emblematic example, insofar that their sustainability is unguaranteed. Business history is full of abundant epic stories of the [...]
Economic Development
External debt primer: Why and when is it relevant for Egyptian businesses?
Listen to the article The foreign currency crunch featured high in the Egyptian economic news beat. Analysts across the board tracked its origin to the external debt. At the same time, privatization [...]
Egypt on board: what does the new BRICS era hold?
Listen to the article In August 2023, the 15th BRICS summit was held in Johannesburg, South Africa. The summit was a pivotal gathering where the BRICS countries came together to discuss pressing [...]
Why did Egypt update its voluntary climate contributions only one year later?
Listen to the article After hosting COP27 in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt has demonstrated its commitment to combating climate change by updating its nationally-determined contributions (NDCs)—voluntary climate commitments that must be updated [...]
