Azline Nelson (G’22, WG’22), a recent Lauder graduate, details her experience attending Lauder Global Alumni Weekend (LGAW) in October 2022 and offers helpful networking tips in this article for Poets and Quants. LGAW is an event hosted by the Lauder Institute Alumni Association every three years in New York City. The…Read More
Lauder Institute Director and Professor of Management, Martine Haas, is interviewed by Wharton Business Daily about the future of workplace culture and hybrid work. Professor Haas argues that hybrid work is here to stay and shared how companies can approach the hybrid (and remote work) models more systematically in the…Read More
The 2022 Lauder Entrepreneurship Lunch and Learn Series provided Lauder students with the opportunity to engage directly with business leaders, alumni, and academics about entrepreneurship in different regional, economic and historical contexts. This series, led by Dr. Sudev Sheth and moderated by students from the Class of 2024, highlighted the ways…Read More 
Did you know that the Lauder Institute offers a joint degree with the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School? Current JD/MA student Manuel Diaz Corrada and alumnus Frank DeSimone (L’15, G’15) are interviewed about their experience. Read the full story here Students enrolled in this joint degree program obtain their JD and their Master’s…Read More
In October 2022, The Lauder Institute held two Lauder Intercultural Ventures (LIVs) in India and Switzerland. LIVs are an intrinsic part of the Lauder 2-year program and provide an opportunity to road test lessons on intercultural leadership in the context of a week-long off-site immersion and related academic work. Each…Read More 
The Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies established the Jacobson Global Venture Awards in 2017 thanks to the generosity of Andrew Jacobson, WG’93, and Lauder alumna Marina Kunis Jacobson, G’93, WG’93. Venture Awards provide Lauder students with resources to focus their energies on their entrepreneurial venture during…Read More 
Learn about our second-year Lauder students and their masters research in this 60-second snapshot video: Featured are: Nader Sharif-Emami Yara Azouni Weiwei Bi Shashank Singh As part of the Lauder Institute’s International Studies degree, all Lauder students fulfill the research and writing requirement for their MA by completing a team-based…Read More
In our latest Alumni Spotlight series, we feature alumni who are making an impact in the world of podcasting. Miguel Armaza (G’21, WG’21) Miguel is the host of Fintech Leaders and a Co-Founder of Gilgamesh Ventures, a venture capital fund focused on seed level investments in the Fintech sector across…Read More 
Lauder Institute alumnus Laxman Narasimhan (G’93, WG’93) will become the next chief executive officer of Starbucks and a member of the Starbucks Board of Directors. Narasimhan will join Starbucks as incoming CEO on October 1, 2022 and will work closely with Howard Schultz, interim CEO, before assuming the CEO role and joining…Read More
Dr. Kanyinsola Obayan Arigi joins us as Faculty Lead of the Africa General Program. She formerly served as the Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Humanities at MIT, where she developed a digital project on Nigerian tech history, Teko Archives. Her primary intellectual interests lie at the intersection of Africana Studies, digital humanities,…Read More
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