Leonard Lauder is a renowned businessman and philanthropist, the longtime Chairman and CEO of the Estée Lauder Corporation. He studied business at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School and at Columbia University before serving as an officer in the United States Navy. In 1958, he joined the cosmetics firm founded by his parents, where he created the company’s first research and development laboratory and initiated a wave of international expansion, beginning with the 1960 opening of an Estée Lauder account at Harrods in London. He introduced a wealth of new brands,...