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
[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 [...]
Op-ed: Entrepreneurship education to reap the potential harvest of a young population
With the second wave of COVID-19 soaring in the background, Global Entrepreneurship Week took place from 16-22 November 2020 celebrating 40,000 activities that involved 20,000 partner organizations and 10 million people in 180 countries. The [...]
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 [...]
Responsible Business
How a public-private collaboration boosted recycling in Manshiet Nasser
A little over a year ago, a famous bottled water brand ventured with the Egyptian market introducing a new package for its product without the ‘sleeve’ that has long been known to surround the bottle [...]
Women empowerment in the workplace: the example of CEMEX making it happen
Challenging and changing the gender discourse requires commitment on the individual and leadership level in all contexts, including in the context of the workplace. Gender-related labor indicators such as the limited female workforce participation rate [...]
[Sustainability & the circular economy]: An emerging pre-owned clothes market in Egypt?
A quick browse through Cairo’s middle to high end clothes shops across its high streets and shopping malls may leave many with teary eyes looking at the price tags. Good quality clothing from local and [...]
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
Is the rising economic inequality an existential threat to capitalism?
Arguably one of the biggest threats to the stability of world economies is the undeniable rise in economic inequality over the past decades. With few exceptions, economic inequality has been on the rise in advanced [...]
Changing business as usual: the case for universal basic income
COVID-19 has indeed exposed the existing vulnerabilities of the world, but it also shed light on models and concepts that need to be mainstreamed. That was the theme of a series of webinars by the [...]
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 [...]
