Lawrence Cunningham, Berkshire Beyond Buffett

Here is an excerpt from Reading the Markets on Lawrence Cunningham's Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values followed by a little something on the book.

Warren Buffett is now 84 years old. Although he is still tap dancing to work practically every day—at least when he’s not galavanting around the country, people can’t help wondering how the company will fare once he is no longer at the helm. Lawrence A. Cunningham addresses this question and, as the subtitle suggests, gives a fairly upbeat answer in Berkshire Beyond Buffett: The Enduring Value of Values (Columbia Business School Publishing, 2014).

Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A) (NYSE:BRK.B) is a sprawling conglomerate comprising nearly 600 business units. (GE...