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
6 emerging startups making a strong debut in the Egyptian Fintech scene
Financial technologies (Fintech) have played a key role in the Egyptian startup scene's growth spurt of the past decade. The youth bulge and a high rate of mobile phone penetration, topped by the government’s financial [...]
How a small labor scheme helped hundreds of poor women in Minya achieve self-employment
With the help of small amounts of funding and training, hundreds of young women in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Minya were able to heave themselves out of unemployment through their own micro businesses, according [...]
From Damascus to Cairo: How a catering service rose from the ruins of Syria’s civil war
From a small apartment in the desert suburb of Obour, come drafts of scents and aromas, the sounds of metal pots and pans clacking together and the commotion of many women speaking a mixture of [...]
Responsible Business
Inclusion matters: What I learned by getting a sandwich at a fast-food restaurant
It was one of those days when I longed for the crispy fried goodness of the famous KFC and I headed to Dokki for the nearest branch, only to discover that this KFC was not [...]
The Shared Value Concept in Coca Cola: This is how I moved my #BusinessForward
Supporting and partnering on the AUC School of Business campaign "This is how I moved my #BusinessForward", the Coca Cola started off the campaign sharing their own story of integrating the 'shared value concept' on [...]
CIB Egypt Ecological Footprint Report: This is how I moved my #BusinessForward
As a partner on the AUC School of Business campaign "This is how I moved my #BusinessForward" on responsible business, the Commercial International Bank (CIB Egypt) models responsible business conduct, sharing their adopted action towards [...]
Family Business
Concrete family business strategies integrate two inseparable words: the family and the business
Listen to the article On my way to an industrial area in Western Germany namely Munich, I had this conversation with the managing director of an old German company founded in 1921. [...]
[Podcast] Voices from African markets: interview with Mohamed Dangote of Nigerian Dansa Holdings
We hear a lot about untapped potential when it comes to economic integration between African countries. But many of us do not know much about African markets and businesses. In this podcast, we travel to [...]
Industry icon Mahmoud El Araby left a business legacy: Q and A with icon’s son Medhat El Araby
How a rural young man looking for a job in the shops of the big city became an icon of Egyptian industry and commerce is one very compelling story. Mahmoud El Araby, the prominent Egyptian [...]
Economic Development
The future of green finance and investment in Egypt
Listen to the article This month, Egypt is due to publish an update for its Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC), which is a climate action plan to reduce emissions. Countries need to develop [...]
Can BRICS shake the dollar dominance?
Listen to the article Throughout the latter half of the 20th century and into the 21st, the US has solidified the dollar’s position as the dominant global currency for trade, finance, and [...]
[Book Review] What we owe each other: A new social contract for a better society
Listen to the article Minouche Shafik spent more than 20 years of her career in international development and public policy making, working on ‘making poverty history’. In terms of standard of living, [...]