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Berkshire Beyond Buffett

The Enduring Value of Values

Format: Paperback / softback
Publisher: Columbia University Press, New York, United States
Published: 18th Feb 2020
Dimensions: w 131mm h 223mm d 21mm
Weight: 430g
ISBN-10: 023117005X
ISBN-13: 9780231170055
Barcode No: 9780231170055
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Berkshire Hathaway, the $500 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 those wishing to profit from the Berkshire model, this engaging book is a valuable read for entrepreneurs, business owners, managers, family business members, and investors, and it is an important resource for scholars of corporate stewardship. General readers will enjoy learning how an iconoclastic businessman transformed a struggling textile company into a corporate legacy.

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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 <i>The Warren Buffett Way</i> How did Warren Buffett build such a great firm? To unravel this mystery, Cunningham takes a deep dive inside the culture of Berkshire Hathaway's subsidiaries, highlighting the values of integrity, kinship, and autonomy-and revealing how building moats around the castles may help the firm outlast its visionary founder. -- Adam Grant, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, author of <i>Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success</i> Berkshire Hathaway's trajectory has been so seamless that Warren Buffett's professional transition has gone almost unnoticed. The man who began his business life as a precocious 'stock picker' has morphed into the chief executive of one of the largest collections of businesses in the world. Lawrence A. Cunningham's book astutely chronicles this development. -- From the foreword by Tom Murphy, Berkshire Hathaway director and former CEO of ABC, Inc. An absolute must-read for advisors... this book is one of the great chronicles of corporate history...[an] excpetional volume. [Ranked sixth best book of the year] * Financial Advisor * A timely contribution to a swelling debate an encyclopedic history of the group's operating businesses. * Financial Times * A detailed study of Berkshire's portfolio and an intriguing profile of the Sage of Omaha's approach to management, not just investment. * The Times * Important, insightful, and clearly written... a major contribution to the management literature, this book should be read by managers of all organizations, business professors and students, business owners, and investors. * Choice * There is much to learn from Mr. Cunningham's stories about the companies that Berkshire Hathaway owns. * The Economist * If you're fascinated with growth strategies, you'll find few books more valuable. * Independent Agent * A worthy read. * strategy+business *