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Lauder Distinguished Lecture Series – a recent innovation at Wharton/Lauder

The Lauder Institute is constantly on the forefront of innovation in education. In spring 2009, Prof. Mauro Guillen organized a hugely successful Wharton course on the recent crisis: the idea was to invite several professors from different departments to lecture on an issue that is related to the meltdown. It worked well, and Wharton has offered this course again in the fall.

This year the Lauder Institute has initiated yet another cool project called Lauder Distinguished Lecture Series.  The series started last month with a wonderful presentation by Managing Director of Human Capital Management at Goldman Sachs. There was a wine-and-cheese reception afterwards, where students could meet the speaker personally. The conversations ranged from banking to corporate life style to career advice. It was a great night.

Today I was pleasantly surprised when I received an email from Prof. Guillen announcing four more speakers that will participate in the Series next semester.  All of them are very accomplished people, and the topics they will talk about have for the most part been identified. Here is an excerpt from the email:

1. Michael Silverstein
Senior Partner and Managing Director, The Boston Consulting Group.
Will speak about his recent book, Women Want More: How to Capture Your Share of the World’s Largest, Fastest-Growing Market.

2. Martin Werner
Partner, and Mexico Office Head
Goldman Sachs
Former Deputy Finance Minister of Mexico
Will speak about emerging economies.

3. Joanna Barsh
Senior Partner，McKinsey &Co.
Will speak about her recent book How Remarkable Women Lead: The Breakthrough Model for Work and Life.

4. Allan Kwan
Venture Partner，Oak Investment Partners
Member of the Lauder Advisory Council

To me, this is an impressive beginning of what could potentially be another awesome tradition at Lauder! Needless to say, all the events are already on my iCal, prioritized as very important and synched to the iPhone.