Life at Lauder

  Their visit was filled with enriching presentations about entrepreneurship.   Wharton MBAs normally have a hard time entering the seemingly fortified world of Silicon Valley. Many technology companies do not see MBAs as having the necessary skills necessary to participate in their businesses or start-ups and tend to focus…Read More

With graduation and Real Life’s obligations getting closer and closer, I decided to make the most of my winter break and take a trip focused on exactly what I wanted to do. I’m writing a Lauder research paper on cocoa farming, and I decided to start my research by exploring…Read More

On October 16, 2014, the Lauder Institute hosted a conference called “The New Global South? Business, Politics, and Culture in a Changing South-South Environment” to generate new knowledge and analysis on problems and opportunities inherent to the Southern Hemisphere. This issue has gained particular relevance in recent years given the…Read More

The Lauder Institute was honored to host a very special performance as part of the Princeton International Chinese Music Festival on October 1, 2014. Performances featured renowned musicians from the music conservatories of Central, China, GuangXi, and Zhejiang, Award-winning young virtuosos, and “2014 Best Young Virtuosos” chosen by China Central…Read More

Now in it’s 31st year, Lauder has had the time to nurture a great number of traditions. Every class brings something new to the table that adds a little flavor to the distinct Lauder experience enjoyed by generations of Lauderites. Some traditions are the kind we proudly display to any…Read More

July 2014 – Berlin is a park. With people living in the middle of it. An enormous city, spanning 892 square kilometers, Berlin’s 400,000 trees inhabit the spaces left by the destruction of WWII; parks, gardens, forest and water make up 39% of the city’s area. Berlin is so full…Read More

My Egyptian background has made immersion in North Africa very interesting. It’s given a convenient benchmarking tool for things like cultural traditions and food preferences, or even economic, historical and political profiles, like the role of each country’s respective militaries in the region’s decolonization experiences. Fortunately Egypt’s dialect, understood across…Read More

“There is not one Morocco, there are many ‘Moroccos’” – Mr. Medhi Meradji, head of the Chambre Française de Commerce et d’Industrie du Maroc, related to our Lauder French track on the eve of our one-week visit to Morocco in June. Many of us received these words with bewilderment, wondering…Read More

Everyone who knows about Lauder, is in Lauder, or has experienced Lauder holds one unequivocal truth: the overseas summer immersion is a transformational experience in which the individual is transformed by an improved understanding of a country’s and language’s culture. In two words? Immersion rocks. It is however just now…Read More