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 (G23, WG23) Yara Azouni (G23, WG23) Weiwei Bi (G23, WG23) Shashank Singh (G23, WG23) As part of the Lauder Institute’s International Studies degree, all Lauder students fulfill the research and writing…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
First-year Lauder students from the Class of 2024 spent the month of July participating in the first Lauder Summer Immersions since 2019. The 2022 4-week summer immersion program took students around the world to study language in informal and formal contexts, visit landmarks, businesses, community and government organizations, and learn…Read More 
Lauder Institute Co-Founder and World Jewish Congress President, Ronald S. Lauder, was honored with the title of Commander of the Legion of Honor from French President Emmanuel Macron on June 3, 2022. The title, known to be France’s highest order of distinction, was presented in honor of Lauder’s contribution to…Read More
Clark Brown Jr. Latin America Program – Portuguese "After graduation, I will intern at a Lauder-alum founded startup Félix before traveling to Brazil for two months to study Portuguese. After Brazil, I will begin full-time as a consultant at Boston Consultant Group in Philadelphia. I’m grateful for the community I found…Read More 
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