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
The Principles of Responsible Management Education Chapter Africa moves us closer to the SDGs
The New York-based United Nations Global Compact Principles of Responsible Management Education (PRME) was the subject of one of the sessions of the AUC Business Forum held last month, with panelists including members PRME Secretariat [...]
Closing ceremony of social responsibility campaign awards responsible business models
Inside Ewart Hall at the AUC Tahrir Campus, on March 30, 2022, the closing ceremony of the AUC School of Business’s campaign on responsible business ‘This is how I moved my #BusinessForward’ took place, with [...]
How Vodafone Egypt shapes its corporate responsibility to enable inclusive and sustainable digital societies
With global environmental issues becoming a matter of concern for all countries of the world, small startups, as well as corporates, are paying more attention to the impact of their businesses on the environment and [...]
Family Business
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 [...]
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 [...]
Economic Development
World Bank diagnostic report for Egypt observes low contribution of labor and capital to growth
It is a time of turbulence for Egypt and the world, with unprecedented global inflation and recession and a risk of food insecurity that is likely to disproportionately hit emerging economies most. With promising economic [...]
Egyptian tourism in the face of climate changes: what to expect?
On a long-awaited beach vacation, a regular person would be looking forward to spending exotic time snorkeling, taking an underwater submarine tour, or simply sitting by the sea under the summer’s dazzling sun. Unfortunately, this [...]
“Egypt Resuming Growth in a Sustainable and Inclusive Approach- presentation by Mahmoud Mohieldin
"“My biggest bet for being optimistic is the most important project being undertaken in Egypt, Hayah Karima,” said Mohieldin. “I know our country has had many initiatives to invest in infrastructure, health, new cities and [...]
