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
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 [...]
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 [...]
Responsible Business
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 [...]
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 [...]
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
Suez Canal achieve highest annual revenue ever
$73.3 billion is the total revenue of the Suez Canal since it was nationalized in 1956. This year, it achieved its highest annual revenue ever, could it be that the canal will be the savior [...]
Why 2030 won’t be the year to change the world
Does the number 2030 ring a bell for you? It is the promised year of prosperity and peace, and the end of hunger and poverty around the world. Many governments around the world are promising [...]
How Egypt survives its import crisis in 2022: struggle and resilience
Walking down the massive isles of IKEA at the famous Cairo Festival City Mall in New Cairo on a Friday evening, Diana notices that some shelves are completely empty. She says, “That was the first [...]
