Lawrence A. Cunningham has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 4 ratings. The most-rated is Quality Investing.
Quality Investing
Summary
The concept of quality is familiar. People make judgments about it every day. Yet articulating a clear definition of quality is challenging. The best companies often appear to be characterized by an ineffable something, much like that of people who seem graced by a lucky gene. Think about those of your peers who seem a lot like you but somehow always catch a break. They are not obviously smarter, smoother, richer, or better-looking than you, yet they are admitted to their university of choice, get their dream job, and earn considerable wealth. Try to discern what they have that you don’t, and you are stumped. Chalk it up to fate or plain dumb luck. Businesses can be similar. For reasons that are not always evident, some end up doing the right things with better results than average. They may not appear to be savvier acquirers, more adept marketers, or bolder pioneers, yet they integrate new businesses better, launch products more successfully, and open new markets with fewer mishaps. Perhaps through some combination of vision, scale, or business philosophy, these companies uncannily come out ahead. In our view, three characteristics indicate quality. These are strong, predictable cash generation; sustainably high returns on capital; and attractive growth opportunities.
©2016 Harriman House (P)2019 Harriman House
The Warren Buffett Shareholder: Stories from Inside the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting
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In this engaging collection of stories, 43 veterans of the Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting explain why throngs attend year after year. Beyond the highlights of Warren's wisdom displayed on stage in his day-long Q&A with vice chairman Charlie Munger, these experts reveal the Berkshire meeting as a community gathering of fun, fellowship, and learning. The contributors, who include a dozen best-selling authors and many famous investors, whisk listeners through the exciting events surrounding the meeting - book signings, panel discussions, and social gatherings - and share the pulse of this distinctive corporate culture. Spanning decades, the audiobook offers glimpses of the past and ideas on what lies ahead. To learn about what makes Buffett's shareholders tick and what happens at the Berkshire meeting, or to reminisce about past meetings, make this delightful audiobook your companion.
©2018 Harriman House (P)2019 Harriman House
Berkshire Beyond Buffett
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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 challenges that assumption. In a comprehensive portrait of the corporate culture that unites Berkshire's subsidiaries, Lawrence Cunningham unearths the traits that assure the conglomerate's perpetual 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. Berkshire Beyond Buffett not only explores what will happen to Berkshire after Buffett but presents all of Berkshire behind Buffett: the inspiring managerial luminaries, innovative entrepreneurs, and devotees of deep values that define this esteemed organization. Whether or not you are convinced that Berkshire can endure without Buffett, the book is full of management lessons for small and large businesses, entrepreneurs, family firms, and Fortune 500 CEOs. Enjoy entertaining tales from Berkshire's 50 main subsidiaries, including Dairy Queen, GEICO, Benjamin Moore, Fruit of the Loom, BNSF, Justin, Pampered Chef, Marmon, Clayton Homes, FlightSafety, and more.
©2014 Lawrence A. Cunningham (P)2016 Audible, Inc.
The AIG Story
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A legendary CEO tells the inside story of building the world's largest insurance company - and the dramatic tale of its near-destruction after he left in early 2005, as successors transformed AIG and drove it to the center of the financial crisis of 2008. In 1962, Maurice Greenberg was handed leadership of a small, failing insurance company. By 2004, American International Group (AIG) had become the world's 18th largest company. Then the financial crisis hit and "Hank" Greenberg's magnificent creation teetered on the brink. You've read other accounts of AIG. Now read the inside story. In The AIG Story, Maurice Greenberg enlists Lawrence Cunningham to help chronicle the origins of the company and its relentless pioneering of open markets everywhere in the world. They regale listeners 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. A unique inside account of AIG by one of the iconic business leaders of the 20th 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 NY Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and the 2008 US government seizure of AIG amid the financial crisis. Enriched by the craftsmanship, research and extensive interviews of other players by corporate governance expert, law professor, and writer Lawrence Cunningham. 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 is really Hank Greenberg's story, told from the very heart of events and carrying important lessons and implications for the US, especially its role in international affairs, its approach to business, its legal system and its handling of financial crises.
©2013 Maurice R. Greenberg and Lawrence A. Cunningham (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
Die Essays von Warren Buffett
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Die von Warren Buffett verfassten Essays genießen seit mehr als zwei Jahrzehnten Kultstatus. Zusammengestellt und aufbereitet von einem der renommiertesten Experten für Value-Investing, Lawrence A. Cunningham, sind die hier zusammengefassten Briefe von Warren Buffett an seine Aktionäre ein unverklärter Einblick in die Investment-Philosophie des erfolgreichsten Investors aller Zeiten. Über Buffett ist viel geschrieben worden, doch was hat er selbst zu sagen? Die Essays stammen aus Buffetts eigener Feder. Mit nüchterner Weisheit äußert er sich über seine Investmententscheidungen, wie er seine Teams auswählt und Unternehmen bewertet. Die vierte, komplett überarbeitete Ausgabe enthält neue, bisher unveröffentlichte Essays, unter anderem zum 50-jährigen Jubiläum von Berkshire Hathaway (2015) sowie Beiträge von Charlie Munger.
©2018 FinanzBuch Verlag, ein Imprint der Münchner Verlagsgruppe GmbH (P)2021 FinanzBuch Verlag, ein Imprint der Münchner Verlagsgruppe GmbH
Dear Shareholder
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The shareholder letters of corporate leaders are a rich source of business and investing wisdom. There is no more authoritative resource on subjects ranging from leadership and management to capital allocation and company culture. But with thousands of shareholder letters written every year, how can investors and students of the corporate world sift this vast swathe to unearth the best insights? Dear Shareholder is the solution! In this masterly new collection, Lawrence A. Cunningham, business expert and acclaimed editor of The Essays of Warren Buffett, presents the finest writers in the genre of the shareholder letter, and the most significant excerpts from their total output. Skillfully curated, edited and arranged, these letters showcase the ultimate in business and investment knowledge from an all-star team.
©Harriman House Harriman House (P)2020 Harriman House