Lauder Institute Director, Dr. Martine Haas, was interviewed on PBS’s “Greater Boston” show in a segment called “Is Remote Work Doomed? Or Is Working From Home Here To Stay?”. Check out the video to learn more!
Director of the Lauder Institute, Dr. Martine Haas, shares how new working arrangements will create new power dynamics. Here’s how managers can prepare: http://bit.ly/3dTHUgy
Lauder Senior Lecturer Dr. Sudev Sheth publishes new research on how old industrial mills can leverage their past to build global brands in the twenty-first century. The work focuses on the pioneering trends set by Pennsylvania-based Woolrich, Inc. and draws parallels to Arvind Mills out of Ahmedabad, India. How did…Read More
Lauder Senior Lecturer Dr. Sudev Sheth weighs in on the good, bad, and ugly of Bollywood, especially its obsession with skin color and sexism in this new working paper from Harvard Business School. Dr. Sheth draws on two new oral history repositories to frame his observations. For example, noted Bollywood…Read More
Since the beginning of the pandemic, African countries have defied the nightmare scenarios that predicted overrun health systems and an inability to recover from global economic shocks. For our second Lauder Africa webinar in October, we wanted to find out how African business – from larger scale enterprises to the…Read More 
What happens when societal harmony is broken? What kinds of tools and resources can be deployed to bring people back together? Truth commissions, a form of restorative justice, have been deployed in many Africa nations as a means to address past injustices, conflict, and mistrust from the bottom-up. The most…Read More 
Webinar recap: health infrastructures in Africa by: Dr. Lynsey Farrell, Director of the Lauder Africa Program & Senior Lecturer, Anthropology Despite dire predictions in February and March, countries across Africa are doing remarkably well in their battle against the spread of COVID-19. The explanations for these more positive outcomes have…Read More 
COVID-19 has created challenges for African countries, but not necessarily in the ways that early observers expected. The continent is weathering the pandemic in terms of broad health outcomes, but the challenges of adequate health infrastructures in most African countries remain. To kick off a new Lauder Africa Fall seminar…Read More
Regina M. Abrami, is a Senior Lecturer in Political Science and Senior Fellow at the Wharton School of Business, and Director of the Lauder Institute’s Global Program and Head of its International Studies faculty. She is featured on ‘Penn on the World after COVID-19’, a joint project of Penn Global…Read More
Dr. Lynsey Farrell, Senior Lecturer in International Studies, Lauder Institute Africa program, shares a recap of a virtual panel discussion titled “COVID-19 in Africa: Avoiding a Public Health Crisis,” a discussion about comparative approaches and responses of governments, civil societies and the private sector in Africa to contain the spread…Read More
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