Focus on Business, Economics and Entrepreneurship

Research in the areas of business, economics and entrepreneurship at CMU-Q explores the critical challenges that drive today’s global markets. Faculty members delve into the data-driven and human-centered strategies that will define commerce, entrepreneurship, and economic resilience in a rapidly changing world.

Our researchers are tackling critical challenges across diverse domains, with a particular focus on regional challenges and opportunities. They explore questions that include redefining workplace collaboration, ensuring supply chains remain resilient, and how business and economic strategies impact entrepreneurship, consumer behavior, and the regional economy.

Experts reach beyond disciplines to find new approaches to optimizing commerce and industry. This includes advancing economic diversification efforts in the GCC, using data analytics to build more robust supply networks, investigating the socio-cultural factors that drive successful startups, and developing new tools to improve financial literacy. Through this interdisciplinary work, CMU-Q is helping to shape a resilient, innovative, and sustainable economic future.

CMU-Q Experts on Business and Economy

Agustín Indaco, Business faculty at CMU-Q

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CMU-Q Research on Business and Economy

Research in the areas of business, economics, and entrepreneurship reach beyond traditional disciplinary boundaries. Some projects intersect with data analytics and artificial intelligence, including how retail supply chains withstand disruptions and how collective intelligence data is used to optimize team collaboration. Over the years, several faculty members have also delved into diverse economic and entrepreneurial questions, including how to measure the effectiveness of economic diversification in the GCC, understand the socio-cultural factors that drive social commerce, and develop gamified applications to improve financial literacy.

Project showcase

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