Life at Lauder

On April 9, 1948, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombia’s liberal party presidential candidate was assassinated, setting off a series of riots in Bogota that later became known as The Bogotazo. Crowds stormed the streets of the capital city, looting stores, burning down buildings, and destroying the cable car system. Gaitán’s assassination…Read More

On April 9, 1948, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombia’s liberal party presidential candidate was assassinated, setting off a series of riots in Bogota that later became known as The Bogotazo. Crowds stormed the streets of the capital city, looting stores, burning down buildings, and destroying the cable car system. Gaitán’s assassination…Read More

Over two recent evenings, Lauder Chinese program students held a forum with MBA students from Tongji University, our host institution in Shanghai. The forum, conducted entirely in Mandarin, gave us a very “Lauder” opportunity to both use our language skills and learn more about business opportunities and challenges in China. China…Read More

Over two recent evenings, Lauder Chinese program students held a forum with MBA students from Tongji University, our host institution in Shanghai. The forum, conducted entirely in Mandarin, gave us a very “Lauder” opportunity to both use our language skills and learn more about business opportunities and challenges in China. China…Read More

Rarely do people happen upon a true microcosm, a location that perfectly encapsulates the depth and diversity of a larger idea – in this case the idea of urbanization. On our second day in Delhi we visited Hauz Khas Village, and from the moment we walked down the packed road…Read More

Rarely do people happen upon a true microcosm, a location that perfectly encapsulates the depth and diversity of a larger idea – in this case the idea of urbanization. On our second day in Delhi we visited Hauz Khas Village, and from the moment we walked down the packed road…Read More

Davis Smith, (WG ’11), discusses how a chance meeting at a Lauder Reunion brought him closer to his dream of starting Cotopaxi  How did you and Stephan Jacob (WG ‘11) become co-founders? “Stephan and I ran into each other at the Lauder reunion in 2013 and were both exiting our…Read More

Robert Millock, pictured below, playing in a pick-up soccer game with kids in Biyem-Assi. After spending six days in Nairobi, the Lauder Africa French track has been in Cameroon for the past two weeks.  We are based in the capital of Yaoundé, Cameroon’s second largest city, living in pairs at…Read More

As part of the Summer immersion of Lauder’s Latin America program, we visited Caja Los Andes in Cusco and Puno, in southern Peru. Caja Rural Los Andes is a Peruvian microfinance institution whose Chairman of the Board is Lauder alumna Rosanna Ramos-Velita (G’92). Not only did we go to Caja…Read More