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
When does a startup stop starting? The case of Swvl
“Startups are young companies founded to develop a unique product or service, bring it to market and make it irresistible and irreplaceable for customers,” says an article by Forbes. Startups differentiate themselves from other companies [...]
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 [...]
Responsible Business
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 [...]
What is the honorable business?
Business can be quite commonly perceived as suspicious and profiting as inherently not good for society. In order for one to succeed at business, one must commit an immoral act at some point. But is [...]
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
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 [...]
How age and education affect female employment in Egypt
This is part two of a series of articles spotlighting the findings of a recent report by the International Labor Organization – as part of the Advancing the Decent Work Agenda in North Africa (ADWA) [...]
What have we learnt about youth skills?
“It’s a tough time to be looking for a job” is a phrase many young people have heard over recent years. Factors like the pre-existing mismatch between supply and demand in labor markets, the anticipated [...]
