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
How local fashion is growing and surviving in Egypt
Listen to the article When we think of locally-designed and manufactured clothes in the 90s in Egypt, an image of a brick-and-mortar florescent-lit store comes to mind. At least that’s the prevalent [...]
Why is personal branding important and how to make it unique?
Listen to the article In today's competitive world, one might think that an Ivy League university degree coupled with a lot of hard work and a yearly outstanding performance evaluation will definitely [...]
Beauty in the age of digital transformation: solutions for busy women
A day in the life of a busy working woman, a stressed stay-at-home mom, a young lady working a full-time job, and a female university student busy with exams isn’t all that different. No matter [...]
Responsible Business
From mobiles to gadgets: what you need to know about e-waste in Egypt
30-year-old Fatma opens her drawer to find a box full of old, unused gadgets and smartphones that she has no idea what to do with or how to dispose of safely. Fatma is not alone [...]
Women representation on Egyptian corporate boards shows encouraging signs
Every day, more and more women across the globe strive to make a living independently, and in the process struggling to prove their competence in a largely male-dominated labor market. Women represent 60 percent of [...]
Electric vehicles: a future fraught with challenges, and clean air
A cloud made up of an incredible amount of dust and car exhaust covers the midday sky of Cairo. Smog is everywhere, you will certainly be coughing a few times if you’re a pedestrian on [...]
Family Business
[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 [...]
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 [...]
Economic Development
[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." [...]
Exports: The key to Egypt’s economic resurgence
Export promotion is a critical aspect of Egypt's economic strategy as the country looks to diversify its revenue streams and boost growth in this time of economic hardship. With a large budget deficit, the government [...]
A Currency Conundrum: Inflation, Devaluation and Flotation in Egypt
Egypt is facing an unprecedented economic crisis as we head into 2023, with inflation soaring to 21.3 percent as of December 2022 and the value of the Egyptian pound falling to record lows. This crisis [...]
