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
Parentpreneurship [Pt 4]: The power of integrating, not balancing, your duties as a mother and business leader
In a series we started on International Women’s Day 2020, Business Forward explores modern-day obstacles to women leading successful businesses and happy, functional families. In part four of our series, we speak to Naomi Osemedua [...]
Could Hand Over make sustainable construction the new norm in Egypt? – Interview with founder Radwa Rostom
Egypt’s urban landscape seems to be in a permanent state of being under construction, with swaths of land being home to rising concrete and steel structures across the desert. With rising concerns over economic activities [...]
What comes after Egypt’s economic reform? A look forward
On Monday, December 2, 2019, the AUC School of Business hosted the 2019 Anniversary of yours truly, Business Forward, gathering a number of key figures across different business sectors, academia, government agencies, and international NGOs [...]
Responsible Business
New edition of the campaign “This is how I moved my #BusinessForward” dedicated to responsible business
In late 2020, amidst lockdowns that had just started to be a new norm, Business Forward launched its first of a kind digital campaign, “This is how I moved my #BusinessForward”, in which content flew [...]
Post-pandemic economic recovery should be green, global experts say
As the world is still grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic and the ensuing economic crisis it is causing, there is ongoing debate over what shape a post-pandemic economic recovery should take. While the world has [...]
Bringing the Gender Equality Index to the Middle East: The benefits and the obstacles
Gender equality has been one of the world’s hottest topics in recent years and even the finance world has been no stranger to it. In the workplace, much of the debate has revolved around the [...]
Family Business
Hope: One mother’s long and arduous journey to provide care to hundreds of children with disabilities
Six years ago, Amal Tolba was in Egypt and went into labor with her third child. It was a very complicated birth thanks to medical malpractice and her daughter, Dara, was stillborn. “She acquired cerebral [...]
What comes after Egypt’s economic reform? A look forward
On Monday, December 2, 2019, the AUC School of Business hosted the 2019 Anniversary of yours truly, Business Forward, gathering a number of key figures across different business sectors, academia, government agencies, and international NGOs [...]
Nepotism, transparency, entrepreneurship: How to navigate the complexities of running a family business
Establishing a successful business is hard, but making it last across generations engulfs a whole other level of difficulty. From deblurring the lines between family and business to effectively preparing the next generations to pick [...]
Economic Development
[Podcast] Egypt’s economy in light of the IMF loan and debt problem
Listen to the article Dr. Ahmed Galal is Egypt's former minster of finance, a world bank veteran and economist. Until December 2016 he was also the managing director of the Economic Research Forum [...]
White paper: Structural reform amidst a volatile global outlook
This white paper focuses on understanding the root causes of Egypt's dependence on foreign debt and its low currency value, as well as providing recommendations to address those issues. The points raised in this white [...]
[Op-Ed] Community-based learning of labor economics: From piloting to full scaling in one year
"Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a better person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in." [...]
