To celebrate 10 years of impact, innovation and growth, AUC Venture Lab (V-Lab), Egyptās first university-based startup accelerator, hosted at AUC School of Business, held their annual V-Lab Summit that involved insightful discussions featuring market leaders and experts, valuable networking opportunities and the latest updates from the Egyptian entrepreneurship ecosystem.This yearās summit was the largest… Read more >
Four students from The American University in Cairo (AUC) School of Business have triumphed as the winners of the highly competitive 2024 Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Regional Societies Research Challenge in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region, organized by the esteemed CFA Society Emirates.The team members: Hana Khaled, economics major, alongside Jana Khaled, Carol… Read more >
Dr. Jeffrey R. Brown, Josef and Margot Lakonishok Professor in Business and Dean of Gies College of Business, has announced that this academic year will be his final year as dean. He plans to step down in 2024 after his successor is found. Brown joined Gies Business in 2002 and has served as dean since… Read more >
This year’s Top 5 ABCC projects reflect a passion to improve communities’ economies, sustainability, and well-being through creative and viable business concepts. The following teams will move on to the final stage of the competition to present their business concepts LIVE to our international panel of judges on April 17th and 18th, competing for a… Read more >
If you are a parent and, like me, anxious to get better at it, you probably know about the carpenter and gardener metaphor popularized by Alison Gopnik, a professor at the University of California Berkeley. Being a carpenter, she says, is about molding a child into an adult who has a particular set of characteristics…. Read more >
āNÄu te rourou, nÄku te rourou, ka ora ai te iwiā is a MÄori proverb, or whakatauki. It translates into āwith your food basket and my food basket the people will thriveā and carries my humble holiday message to the GBSN community.Ā To be sure, Iām not an expert on MÄori, People of the Land… Read more >
The recent advances in artificial intelligence, with novel chatbots like ChatGPT, brings radical changes and opportunities to the way organizations and people work in teams. As hardware and machine learning algorithms continue to improve at impressive speed, AI-powered predictive analytics has also started to boost the way we work together. Generative AI, which transforms information to… Read more >
Passengers disembarking Cairo International Airport are greeted by a golden woman sporting a duck on her head. No one seems to know why. The American University in Cairo, a superb institution, sits on a 260 acre piece of land. The buildings would do ancient pharaohs proud. One of them leads those who enter to a… Read more >
As the 2023 Social Logistics Challenge comes to a close, we are pleased to announce our Winning Teams! Out of 62 registered student teams, we had a total of 24 teams from 14 schools in 12 countries submit written and creative reports detailing their SDG problem addressed and proposed solution. The Top 5 Teams presented their… Read more >
I was just in Cairo for GBSN’s annual conference, GBSN Beyond. While unwinding one evening, a simple chocolate bar opened my eyes to a harsh reality. Thanks to Charles Autheman, a Professor at HEC Paris and a key figure in the GBSN for Biz & Human Rights Impact Community, what began as a casual dinner… Read more >
