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
2 minutes with Sameh Saleh: Behind the scenes of Harmonica’s “smooth” acquisition
The biggest story currently making the rounds in Egypt’s entrepreneurship ecosystem is Egyptian matchmaking app Harmonica’s acquisition by Match Group, the mother company of matchmaking and dating services OkCupid, Tinder, Plentyoffish and others. Harmonica, as [...]
AI, VR, fintech, the cloud: 9 Egyptian startups to watch this season
It is the startup season once again. Like every year, the last few months of the closing fiscal year host an array of demo days of Egypt’s different incubators and accelerators, graduating new cycles of [...]
2 minutes with Donna Kelley: Why there are more entrepreneurs in EMs than in developed economies
Studies have shown that entrepreneurship in developing countries is usually necessity-driven. In Egypt, for instance, 73% of the population thinks that entrepreneurship is a good career choice, according to the latest Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) [...]
Responsible Business
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 [...]
Changing Business As Usual: the purposeful business [series]
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 [...]
Family Business
The Family Business Special [PT1]: The DNA of Egypt’s SMEs and family businesses
Hassan Allam Holdings, El Sewedy Electric, Electrolux Egypt just to name a few - family businesses in Egypt have been at the forefront of economic growth and development for many years. Companies such as Arabian [...]
Succession in family businesses: How SASCO Group went from one generation to the next
Established in 1975, SASCO Group is a family business currently run by second-generation brothers and Endeavor Entrepreneurs Tarek and Alaa Sryo. Today, the company has five factories, each with a different production line in the [...]
[VIDEO] One-on-one with Baraka Group’s Ahmed Ragab: How to pump fresh blood into family businesses
Family businesses are seemingly very traditional and static. However, several family businesses today are looking at new strategies and how to pump fresh blood into the business. In partnership with Endeavor Egypt, Business Forward speaks to [...]
Economic Development
Unraveling Egypt’s external debt: problems and solutions under spotlight at Business Forward 2022 annual event
Listen to the article Egypt is one of many countries in the world that are trying to pick up the pieces of the many consequent shocks that have recently hit the world. [...]
Essential for economic reform: what are the prospects of Egypt’s private sector?
As the Egyptian economy has been affected by local and international developments—the recent devaluation of the Egyptian pound being perhaps the most significant consequence—the private sector struggles to expand as desired. "We saw a decline [...]
The journey to the IMF loan: A blessing in disguise?
News of Egypt’s discussions with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have sparked mixed feelings between relief, skepticism, and concern among the Egyptian public. Egypt's economic predicament, most dominantly characterized by the dollar shortage that has [...]
