Perspective

The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America is selected, arranged, and introduced by Lawrence A. Cunningham from the essays of Warren Buffett. The editor is a George Washington University Law School Professor who prepares this collection of Buffett essays as core of a symposium and standard text for his course in business practices at Cardozo School of Law and other law and business schools. The original conference is attended by Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, who are Chairman and Vice-Chairman respectively of Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Together the two of them manage the $70 billion enterprise based on the investment principles of Ben Graham.

Warren Buffet begins his professional investing career with Ben Graham and David Dodd at Graham-Newman. Prior to that, Graham instructs Warren Buffett at Columbia Business School in the 1950s, where he is a graduate student. The essays presented in this volume are excerpted from...