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Penn Law’s Lynnewood Shafer debuts ‘Black Excellence: Journeys of Success’ Lynnewood Shafer. (Image: Penn Law News)
The goal of “Black Excellence” is to educate, inspire, and inform the next generation of innovators, entrepreneurs, executives, professionals, and more through the stories and advice of those who currently occupy those ranks. The hypothesis is that no matter how ordinary we think we are, we are each capable of extraordinary results, and “Black Excellence” seeks to model how to achieve those results while being grounded in experience.
Shafer grew up in Burlington, New Jersey, and earned a degree in accounting at Drexel University. After Drexel, he worked at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a CPA. He served as president of the National Association of Black Accountants (NABA) at Drexel and later as the Director of Professional Education for NABA’s Philadelphia chapter where he helped lead efforts to diversify the profession throug
When I saw the Wall Street Journal headline, âSome CEOs suggest dropping degree requirements in hiring,â I was impressed. At last, I thought, the business establishment is starting to see things my way. Iâm a big supporter of education in the spirit of â among other elders â my late grandmother, who was a public school teacher. But in the business world, education and a diploma are not necessarily the same thing.
Employers increasingly in recent decades have fallen under the spell of what critics call âover-credentialingâ or âdegree inflation,â demanding a bachelorâs degree for jobs that traditionally did not require one.
Legal & General backs activist investor over Exxon climate concerns
L&G will back an activist investor at Exxon s shareholder meeting later this month, after it voiced concerns about the oil giant s environmental practices.
Legal & General, one of Exxon Mobil’s major investors, has said it will back an activist hedge fund at Exxon’s shareholder meeting later this month, after the fund raised climate-related concerns about Exxon’s practices.
US oil producer Exxon is battling hedge fund Engine No. 1 over four seats on its 12-member board and the direction of the company.
The hedge fund has criticised Exxon’s poor returns, spending on fossil fuels and lack of clear plans for the energy transition.
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