Berkshire Beyond Buffett
The Enduring Value of Values
by Lawrence A. Cunningham
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Pub Date Oct 21 2014 | Archive Date Dec 15 2014
Columbia University Press | Columbia Business School
Description
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 that assumption wrong.
In a comprehensive portrait of the distinct corporate culture that unites and sustains Berkshire's fifty direct subsidiaries, Lawrence A. Cunningham unearths the traits that assure the conglomerate's perpetual prosperity. Riveting stories recount each subsidiary's origins, triumphs, and journey to Berkshire and reveal the strategies managers use to generate economic value from intangible values, such as 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, and investors, and it makes an important resource for scholars of corporate stewardship. General readers will enjoy learning how an iconoclastic businessman transformed a struggling shirt company into a corporate fortress destined to be his lasting legacy.
Advance Praise
“Lawrence Cunningham is a writer and scholar who is well known to the Berkshire Hathaway faithful, and was Warren Buffett's pick for cataloging and organizing Berkshire's famous annual reports. Now Cunningham has taken us in a new direction, directly into the purchases of companies made by Warren Buffett. It is an insightful and important book that deserves a place on every serious investor's book shelf.”
—Robert Hagstrom, author of The Warren Buffett Way
“How did Warren Buffett build such a great firm? To unravel this mystery, Lawrence Cunningham takes a deep dive inside the cultures of Berkshire Hathaway’s subsidiaries, highlighting the value of integrity, kinship, and autonomy—and revealing how building moats around the castles may help the firm outlast its visionary founder.”
—Adam Grant, Wharton professor and author of Give and Take
Available Editions
| EDITION | Hardcover |
| ISBN | 9780231170048 |
| PRICE | $29.95 (USD) |
