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Contracts in the Real World
Contracts, the foundation of economic activity, are both vital and misunderstood. This book corrects the misunderstandings through a series of engaging stories involving such diverse individuals as Martin Luther King, Maya Angelou, Clive Cussler, Lady Gaga and Donald Trump. Capturing the essentials of this subject, the book explores recurring issues people face in contracting. It shows how age-old precedents and wisdom still apply today and how contract law's inherent dynamism cautions against exuberant reforms. The book will appeal to the general reader and specialists in the field alike, and to both teachers and students of contracts.
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Berkshire beyond Buffett
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 textile manufacturer into a corporate fortress destined to be his lasting legacy.
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Margin of trust : the Berkshire business model
\"For the past 25 years, Lawrence Cunningham has written books, articles, and essays about Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway, contributing to the vast quantity of literature on the subject. In recent years his writings have focused more on the key takeaways for other business leaders. This work is a selected anthology of these recent writings, looking at the core features of the Buffett model, its costs and benefits, and how it can be adapted and improved for other organizations. It also goes into detail on some of the lesser-known acquisitions that Berkshire has made, which are not covered in other works on the subject. The field of Warren Buffett literature is well-trod but demand for works on Buffett and his company remains strong from business professionals in general and investors in particular; this work is targeted at that audience. This work, like Berkshire Beyond Buffett, focuses more on management advice than investment analysis\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The AIG story
Selected as one of Motley Fool's \"5 Great Books You Should Read\" In The AIG Story, the company's long-term CEO Hank Greenberg (1967 to 2005) and GW professor and corporate governance expert Lawrence Cunningham chronicle the origins of the company and its relentless pioneering of open markets everywhere in the world. They regale readers with riveting vignettes of how AIG grew from a modest group of insurance enterprises in 1970 to the largest insurance company in world history. They help us understand AIG's distinctive entrepreneurial culture and how its outstanding employees worldwide helped pave the road to globalization. * Corrects numerous common misconceptions about AIG that arose due to its role at the center of the financial crisis of 2008. * A unique account of AIG by one of the iconic business leaders of the twentieth century who developed close relationships with many of the most important world leaders of the period and helped to open markets everywhere * Offers new critical perspective on battles with N. Y. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the 2008 U.S. government seizure of AIG amid the financial crisis * Shares considerable information not previously made public The AIG Story captures an impressive saga in business history--one of innovation, vision and leadership at a company that was nearly--destroyed with a few strokes of governmental pens. The AIG Story carries important lessons and implications for the U.S., especially its role in international affairs, its approach to business, its legal system and its handling of financial crises.
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The AIG Story
ASelected as one of Motley Fool's\"5 Great Books You Should Read\" In The AIG Story, the company's long-term CEO Hank Greenberg (1967 to 2005) and GW professor and corporate governance expert Lawrence Cunningham chronicle the origins of the company and its relentless pioneering of open markets everywhere in the world. They regale readers with riveting vignettes of how AIG grew from a modest group of insurance enterprises in 1970 to the largest insurance company in world history. They help us understand AIG's distinctive entrepreneurial culture and how its outstanding employees worldwide helped pave the road to globalization. Corrects numerous common misconceptions about AIG that arose due to its role at the center of the financial crisis of 2008.A unique account of AIG by one of the iconic business leaders of the twentieth century who developed close relationships with many of the most important world leaders of the period and helped to open markets everywhereOffers new critical perspective on battles with N.Y. Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the 2008 U.S. government seizure of AIG amid the financial crisisShares considerable information not previously made publicThe AIG Story captures an impressive saga in business history--one of innovation, vision and leadership at a company that was nearly--destroyed with a few strokes of governmental pens. The AIG Story carriesimportant lessons and implications for the U.S., especially its role in international affairs, its approach to business, its legal system and its handling of financial crises
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Berkshire Beyond Buffett
A worthy read. If you're fascinated with growth strategies, you'll find few books more valuable. There is much to learn from Mr. Cunningham's stories about the companies that Berkshire Hathaway owns. 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. A detailed study of Berkshire's portfolio and an intriguing profile of the Sage of Omaha's approach to management, not just investment. A timely contribution to a swelling debate¿ an encyclopedic history of the group's operating businesses. 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] From the foreword by Tom Murphy, Berkshire Hathaway director and former CEO of ABC, Inc.: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. Adam Grant, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, author of Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success: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
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