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Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values
Lawrence A. Cunningham
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Description for Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values
Hardback. Series: Columbia Business School Publishing. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 figures. BIC Classification: KJVW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 158 x 231 x 31. Weight in Grams: 652.
Berkshire Hathaway, the $300 billion conglomerate that Warren Buffett built, is among the world's largest and most famous corporations. Yet, for all its power and celebrity, few people understand Berkshire, and many assume it cannot survive without Buffett. This book proves them wrong. In a comprehensive portrait of the corporate culture that unites Berkshire's subsidiaries, Lawrence A. Cunningham unearths the traits that assure the conglomerate's continued prosperity. Riveting stories of each subsidiary's origins, triumphs, and journey to Berkshire reveal how managers generate economic value from intangibles like thrift, integrity, entrepreneurship, autonomy, and a sense of permanence. Rich with lessons for ... Read more
Berkshire Hathaway, the $300 billion conglomerate that Warren Buffett built, is among the world's largest and most famous corporations. Yet, for all its power and celebrity, few people understand Berkshire, and many assume it cannot survive without Buffett. This book proves them wrong. In a comprehensive portrait of the corporate culture that unites Berkshire's subsidiaries, Lawrence A. Cunningham unearths the traits that assure the conglomerate's continued prosperity. Riveting stories of each subsidiary's origins, triumphs, and journey to Berkshire reveal how managers generate economic value from intangibles like thrift, integrity, entrepreneurship, autonomy, and a sense of permanence. Rich with lessons for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Series
Columbia Business School Publishing
Condition
New
Weight
652g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231170048
SKU
V9780231170048
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About Lawrence A. Cunningham
Lawrence A. Cunningham, editor and publisher since 1997 of The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America, is the Henry St. George Tucker III Research Professor at George Washington University. Cunningham's dozen books include The AIG Story (with Maurice R. Greenberg) and How to Think Like Benjamin Graham and Invest Like Warren Buffett. His extensive writings on a wide ... Read more
Reviews for Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values
Cunningham is a writer and scholar well known to the Berkshire Hathaway faithful, and he was Warren Buffett's pick for cataloging and organizing Berkshire's famous annual reports. Now he has taken us in a new direction, directly into the purchases of companies made by Buffett. An insightful and important book.
Robert Hagstrom, author of The Warren Buffett Way How ... Read more
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