1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910460007003321

Autore

Cunningham Lawrence A. <1962->

Titolo

Berkshire beyond Buffett : the enduring value of values / / Lawrence Cunningham ; cover design, Noah Arlow ; cover image, Steven Noble

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; ; Chichester, England : , : Columbia Business School Publishing, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-231-53869-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (333 p.)

Collana

Columbia Business School Publishing

Disciplina

338.8/60973

Soggetti

Corporate culture

Investments - United States

Mutual funds - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Foreword / Murphy, Tom -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I -- 1. Origins -- 2. Diversity -- 3. Culture -- PART II -- 4. Budget-conscious and Earnest -- 5. Reputation -- 6. Kinship -- 7. Self-starters -- 8. Hands Off -- 9. Investor Savvy -- 10. Rudimentary -- 11. Eternal -- 12. All One -- 13. Berkshire's Portfolio -- PART III -- 14. Succession -- 15. Challenges -- 16. B.E.R.K.S.H.I.R.E. -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Berkshire Hathaway, the $33 00 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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910710776003321

Autore

Wilson Charles L

Titolo

Studies of fingerprint matching using the NIST Verification Test Bed (VTB) / / Charles L. Wilson; Craig I. Watson; Michael D. Garris; Austin Hicklin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Gaithersburg, MD : , : U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Institute of Standards and Technology, , 2003

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

NISTIR ; ; 7020

Altri autori (Persone)

GarrisMichael D

HicklinR. Austin

WatsonC. I (Craig I.)

WilsonCharles L

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

2003.

Contributed record: Metadata reviewed, not verified. Some fields updated by batch processes.

Title from PDF title page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783999903321

Titolo

Mapping women, making politics : feminist perspectives on political geography / / edited by Lynn A. Staeheli, Eleonore Kofman, Linda Peake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Routledge, , 2004

ISBN

1-135-95250-7

1-299-28565-1

1-135-95251-5

1-280-06288-6

0-203-32851-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

StaeheliLynn A

KofmanEleonore

PeakeLinda <1956->

Disciplina

320.1/2/082

Soggetti

Feminist political geography

Sex role - Political aspects

Feminist theory - Political aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface; Mapping Gender, Making Politics: Toward Feminist Political Geographies; Contextualizing Feminist Political Theory; Mapping Feminisms and Difference; From Dualisms to Multiplicities: Gendered Political Practices; Placing Gendered Political Acts; Doing Feminist Political Geographies; Development, Postcolonialism, and Feminist Political Geography; Critically Feminist Geopolitics; Gendered Globalization; Territory, Territoriality, and Boundaries; Embodied Nationalisms; The (Geo)Politics of Gendered Mobility; Crossing Borders: Gender and Migration

Social Movements, Protest, and ResistanceA Gendered Politics of the Environment; Making Feminist Sense of the State and Citizenship; Framing Feminist Claims for Urban Citizenship; Feminizing Electoral Geography; References; Contributors; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

This reader demonstrates the ways in which gender interacts with other



dimensions of difference to shape political processes and the politics of space.