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
ESG: between corporate implementation and educational conceptualization
Listen to the article From achieving eco-friendly manufacturing to implementing gender equality and combating corruption, the environmental, social, and governance framework (ESG) has become a target for corporations to implement. The environmental [...]
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 are in the process struggling to prove their competence in a largely male-dominated labor market. Women represent 60 percent [...]
Family Business
[Podcast] Resolving family business challenges in 2023: Pharco in ICC
Listen to the article Family businesses are the backbone of world economies, and they often deal with many layers of challenges in addition to the usual challenges. For example, they rarely continue past the [...]
Financing in family business: the past and present
Listen to the article Family businesses in Egypt have been the backbone of the country's economy for generations, contributing significantly to GDP and employing a large percentage of the workforce. These businesses [...]
Studying family business histories helps understand their struggles
Listen to the article Family businesses are a driving force of many economies around the world. Some of these businesses have a rich, multi-generational legacy that comes with their names. However, the [...]
Economic Development
The future of green finance and investment in Egypt
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 adaptation solutions and implement environmentally sustainable actions [...]
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, [...]