A career in the Estee Lauder Companies

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The beauty industry is a hotbed of interests for young professionals, and the Estee Lauder Companies receives many aspiring candidates yearly. An impressive resume is well and good, but the conglomerate’s unique and upstanding corporate culture requires more in terms of character, not just background.

The company prides itself in taking care of its employees. In fact, the company is cited as one of the quality workplaces where the welfare of human resources is most desirable. Not making good on making the company an ideal workplace wouldn’t have been apposite to what the brand stands for. Apart from beauty, it seeks a healthy and balanced quality of life for its consumers.


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“Uncompromising ethics, fairness, integrity, diversity, and trust” are just some of the prized values enumerated on the company website. Creativity, meanwhile, is a legacy exemplified by its founder, Estee Lauder, and inheritors of her business, Leonard Lauder, and subsequently, William Lauder. As one of the most successful family businesses in history, the Estee Lauder Companies lives by the values that hold the company together which are founded on familial principles. There, workers are “family from day one.”

Headquartered in New York City, the Estee Lauder Companies inspires a jostle among creative professionals for a place inside it. Its sheer size allows it to employ individuals with remarkable creative visions and foresight about consumer cultures. Rightly, the company is in turn reputed for nurturing talent further by equipping employees with opportunities and facilities to grow and develop innovative business ideas.


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Want to work for the Estee Lauder companies? Visit this Twitter page for William Lauder and see how the company Chair’s work ethic and business vision could rub off on you.

REPOST: Cannes 2012: live blog - the awards

Missed the Cannes Film Festival this year? The Guardian's liveblog, trademarked by saucy comments about Awards nights and the slippery Frenchness of the occasion (classic English to point out conceptual barriers), should be an entertaining catch-up:

6.23pm: Hello and welcome to the climactic moments of Cannes 2012, which will reach its crescendo in little over an hour from now, when the Palme d'Or, the Golden Palm, is bestowed by Nanni Moretti and his panel of jurors.

Rather appropriately, the skies have opened over Cannes: thunder and lightning are crashing over the Croisette and rain is pounding on the Palais. It's a suitable backdrop for the anointing of a new presiding genius, a magician of cinema. Will it be Michael Haneke, whose Amour has wowed the critics? Or might Leos Carax, whose Holy Motors hasboggled and excited in equal measure, carry off the prize? All we do know is that it won't be a woman. Bah.

6.33pm: If you've kept alert, you'll know that a bunch of awards have already been dished out.

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Here's the Directors Fortnight list:

ART CINEMA AWARD 2012
No (Pablo Larrain, Chile-U.S.-Mexico)

EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL 2012 for best European film in Directors' Fortnight
The Repentant (Merzak Allouache, Algeria-France)

SACD PRIZE 2012 for best French-language film in Directors' Fortnight
Camille Rewinds (Noemi Lvovsky, France)

No is the well-regarded Chilean film about the 1988 Pinochet referendum; it's a popular choice.

And here's the Un Certain Regard list:

PRIZE OF UN CERTAIN REGARD
DESPUÉS DE LUCIA by Michel FRANCO

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE
LE GRAND SOIR by Benoît DELÉPINE and Gustave KERVERN

UN CERTAIN REGARD AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS
Suzanne CLÉMENT for her performance in LAURENCE ANYWAYS directed by Xavier DOLAN

UN CERTAIN REGARD AWARD FOR BEST ACTRESS
Emilie DEQUENNE for her performance in À PERDRE LA RAISON directed by Joachim LAFOSSE

SPECIAL DISTINCTION OF THE JURY
DJECA (Children of Sarajevo) by Aida BEGIC

Sorry about the broken English, that's copied directly off the Cannes website.

6.47pm: Great and good assembling to hear their fate at Nanni Moretti's hands. Michael Haneke, distinguished-looking silvery hair all a-quiver in the rainy breeze, must be quietly confident. Moretti, it must be said, is looking quietly confident too.

Xan Brooks reminds me I know who won't win: Carlos Reygadas. I was the last person to interview him yesterday evening, just before he raced out of town. If he was getting a prize, they'd surely have made him stick around.

7.02pm: Tears of patriotic pride moment: the French journalist behind me calls out: "Ken Loasssh!" as our favourite ex-Nuneaton boy is collared by the red-carpet mic-wielder. Can't hear a word he says, though, above the media babble. Still, I almost leap to my feet and salute. But manage to restrain myself.

7.03pm: Here's Matteo Garrone, whose Reality might be in with a shout, what with the Italian connection.

7.11pm: Audrey Tautou, star of closing film Thérèse Desqueyroux, stumbling to her seat, which means we're pretty close now.

7.18pm: Things really getting off the ground now. Berenice Bejo, she off The Artist, is on the mic and (somewhat nervously) is making some opening remarks. "Nothing will stop cinema," she says, "especially not the rain." Ho, ho.

7.18pm: Kylie Minogue steps forward to announce the best short film. And it goes to something called Sessiz-Be Deng by Turkish director L Rezan Yesilbas. Well done chaps.

7.22pm: The Camera d'Or, for first time directors is up next. And, my God, it's Beasts of the Southern Wild, by Benh Zeitlin. That did well at Sundance, as I recall, so it's bit of surprise winning here.

7.26pm: Zeitlin's almost breaking down in tears, God love him. "Thank you everybody at home," he says. He remembers to thank the jury and the festival of course.

7.28pm: Nanni introducing his jury now. Gaultier gets a big cheer.

7.29pm: Prix de Jury goes to Loach! Angel's Share. Bit of a shocker there, the third prize.

7.30pm: Loach stumbles through a few French phrases before switching to English. "I would like to send our solidarity to those in dark times resist the programmes of austerity and cuts."

7.32pm: Prix de scenario - for screenplay - goes to Beyond the Hills, directed by Cristian Mungiu. He doesn't look too excited.

7.34pm: I'm flabbergasted. Winner of the mise-en-scene prize is... Carlos Reygadas for Post Tenebras Lux. He told me he was going home, dammit! I'll never believe Mexican art-film directors again.

7.38pm: Best male actor now. Gong Li steps out to hand it over. And it's Mads Mikkelsen, for Vinterberg's Jagten (The Hunt).

7.40pm: Quite a few screeches here when Mads' name is read out.

7.40pm: Now it's the women's turn. Alec Baldwin, the male Gong Li, strides forwards. Winners are: Cosmina Stratan and Cristina Flutur from the Mungiu film, Beyond the Hills.

7.45pm: Now it's the Grand Prix, the second prize. Nanni's up: it's Reality by Garrone! I told you he had a chance. Didn't think he would get anything, mind.

7.47pm: Can't say the assembled journalists greet the news with any kind of enthusiasm.

7.48pm: Now it's the biggie. Audrey Tautou and Adrien Brody do the honours. And Moretti says... the Golden Palm goes to... Amour! Haneke!

7.51pm: Only two years after taking the Palme for The White Ribbon, the Austrian does it again. I would say the reaction here is muted. No one is surprised, or especially excited either. He gets the usual standing ovation, but I don't think anyone is going nuts over it.

7.54pm: Nothing for Holy Motors or Cosmopolis, two of the films that some thought might sneak home. Audiard empty-handed too.

7.56pm: Haneke joins Kusturica, the Dardennes and Bille August (if memory serves me right) who have won the Palme twice.

8.07pm: Now all the clapping has died away, it's time to shift over to the winners' press conference, so I'll be knocking this live blog on the head. Short but very sweet!

Which makeup brands are omnipresent during red carpet events? William Lauder can proudly roll out high-profile loyalists of Estee Lauder brands. Visit this Twitter page to see who Estee Lauder's muses are.

Clinique City Block: The sun is not the only enemy

The Estee Lauder Companies has a beauty creed that valorizes scientific research. Sun protection has been one of its main causes, part of its cosmetic instinct to preserve skin from the ravaging effects of ultraviolet rays. It’s no surprise that William Lauder, erstwhile CEO and now Chairman of the Board of Directors, is also the associated figure for one of the top-selling cosmetic sunblocks today. Lauder pioneered Clinique’s Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion as a young executive. He now has a higher hand as the top Estee Lauder guy, with official and sentimental oversight of Clinique, an unshakeable staple in the ELC brand portfolio.

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Clinique products shack up in every woman’s boudoir because of their easy dermatological reliability. The brand touched base in 1968 with its three-step skincare regimen, a studied recommendation for women who long for the well-maintained glow.

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Over the years, Estee Lauder’s attachment to sun protection germinated new products that became additional steps to this regimen. Clinique City Block, the brand’s resident sunscreen, has a touch of warning: It does offer up to SPF 40 against sun protection, but it is also a reminder that bare skin is an unknowing host to city pollutants like dust and motor emissions. The application of sunblock succeeds that of moisturizer, offering users the full circle of skin regeneration once they’ve come of age to wear makeup.

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But Clinique is also in the running as every teenage girl’s skincare starter kit. The City Block’s full benefits are encompassing enough for gentler handling of young skin. It figures as an annual cosmetic contender, with more specialized spinoffs, like the Derma White version, which is specifically formulated for Asian skin.


William Lauder, Estee Lauder’s grandson, earned his position in the Estee Lauder Companies by strapping Clinique’s global success to straightforward yet innovative products. Learn more about ELC’s beauty philosophy through the company website.

Sustainability and green chemistry: The environment beyond cosmetic changes

 
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Corporate executives are wiser for straying from exploitative and extractive business behavior. The modern ones have been schooled early on the benefits of sustainable production. The Estee Lauder Companies, with its corporate social responsibility (CSR) platforms diversified into significant domains like consumer health, social awareness, and environmental protection, is one of those global conglomerates which have reduced the risk of boomeranging business practices by refining the green aspects of its operations.





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Under the leadership of board chair William Lauder, The Estee Lauder Companies has made a commitment to green chemistry and the reduction of its greenhouse gas emissions. Given the global scale of distribution, industrial practices for skincare and cosmetics production are standard. Waste and pollutants, however, are not.



 

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The Estee Lauder Companies carries one of the most diverse portfolios of brands in the industry. Its sustainable interventions are therefore uniformly applied. The company proudly reports a 16% reduction on its greenhouse emissions for the past couple of fiscal years. Apart from that, its environmental missions are adjusted for a spectrum of concerns, among them, the promotion of biodiversity and agricultural livelihood by using natural ingredients, prioritizing renewable sources, and generally following green principles like recycling across the production chain.


While William Lauder recently spoke of expansion to new markets as one of The Estee Lauder Companies’ main routes to the future, principles of green production and sustainability also lead the way. To know more about The ELC’s CSR programs, visit its website.

A Life of Success

Meet William Lauder, the grandson of Estee Lauder who has built of life of success for himself and the company his grandmother founded. He is the son of Evelyn (nee Hausner) and Leonard A. Lauder and graduated from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 1983 with a B.S. in economics, a degree that he applied assiduously to catapult his career in business.

Perhaps because his grandmother was Estee Lauder, William Lauder worked to make the last name more of a coincidence rather than an obvious nepotistic opportunity. In actuality, after finishing college, he chose to pursue his career independent of the clear advantage offered through his familial connections. To that end, he first joined up with the Macy’s executive training program and began building his resume by becoming Associate Merchandising Manager of the New York Division/Dallas store at its public launch in September 1985.

Sooner or later, it appeared to be inevitable that he would be drawn back to his own family background and want to contribute to his own business lineage. Once more, William Lauder did not demand or expect top positioning in his family’s firm. Instead, building upon his success and business savvy from his experience at Macy’s, he joined The Estee Lauder Companies in 1986 as Regional Marketing Director of Clinique U.S.A. in the New York Metro area. Mr. Lauder also committed two years at Prescriptives as Field Sales Manager, which gave him essential ground level experience with their customer base.

Fast-forward 15 years or so, and the success story of William Lauder continues to blossom. From the modest beginnings of Regional Marketing Director, William Lauder has graduated to the ultimate position of chief executive officer of the Estee Lauder Companies, naturally progressing through such prestigious positions by starting as President of Clinique, where their Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion proved to be the bestselling high-end skincare product in U.S. department stores, and Clinique launched its first anti-aging product, Stop Signs Visible Anti-Aging Serum, which won the Cosmetic Executive Women (CEW) Award for "Best Skin Care Product in Limited Distribution" in 2000.

William Lauder represents an excellent example of a dedicated life of business success. It may be partially attributed to his early exposure to successful business practices as established by his own grandmother, Estee Lauder.

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William Lauder's Family Company

As the current Chairman of the board of directors of Estee Lauder, William Lauder has been successful in advancing his family's company into the twenty-first century. As a premiere cosmetics producer, Estee Lauder has seen substantial growth and development while under the leadership of William Lauder.

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While William Lauder's family ran the business, William started making early impacts after joining the company in 1984. He faithfully served the company his grandmother built for six years before moving to lead Origins Natural Resources, a company owned by Estee Lauder. Lauder led the division from 1990 to 1998, becoming President during that time. He was instrumental in Origins's success as he combined ingenuity and intelligence to help them succeed. A key factor of this growth was the development of the store-within-a-store model. Origins's concept design showed how a retail space could partner with another company to have a seperate store inside a larger department store, like bookstores and coffee shops. This model gave Origins a substantial edge over the competition, and revenue streams continued to improve while Lauder ran the division.

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As Lauder moved upwards through his namesake company, his visions and talents were rewarded by increasing success throughout the business. William Lauder started running the entire Estee Lauder business, becoming CEO when he was 44. The Estee Lauder Companies include smaller companies pawned and operated by Estee Lauder, such as Origins and also Clinique, the subsidiary that Lauder himself ran during the turn of the century. While Lauder acted as Clinique’s President, it became a successful and award-winning branch of the cosmetic giant.

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Lauder was succeeded by Fabrizio Freda in 2009 as CEO, but Lauder's influence is still felt throughout the company due to his critical role on the board. Through his leadership and business ingenuity, Estee Lauder continues to succeed, boasting a six percent growth in 2011 over 2010. William Lauder has been an asset to the family company for over 20 years, and deserves the recognition as a true business expert.