San Francisco / Buffalo / Lake City / Doddsville / Washington / D.C. / Omaha / Salt Lake City / Detroit / Washington / Reading / Birmingham / Boston / New York / Des Moines / Knoxville / /
Company
GEICO / Standard & Poor / Shaw Industries / Cornhusker Casualty Company / Warren Buffett / Georgetown Journal / AIG / De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. / Los Angeles Times / Haaretz / McGraw-Hill / National Indemnity Company / Helzberg’s Diamond Shops / Kölnische Rückversicherungs-Gesellschaft AG / NetJets / New York Times / West Group / Berkshire Hathaway Inc. / BNSF Railway / Fire & Casualty Insurance Company / Buffalo Courier-Express Inc. / FSB Press / Business Wire / General Re / Cravath / Swaine & Moore / McLane Co. Inc. / Continental Divide Insurance Company / Harvard Business Review Press / Wall Street Journal / See Berkshire Hathaway Inc. / Norton / Salomon / Blue Chip / USA Today / Boat America Corporation / Wesco Financial Corporation / Scott Fetzer / The Marmon Group / Its Founder / Anglo American Corporation / Clayton Homes / Texas A&M University Press / Cypress Insurance Company / Bloomberg / Morningstar / Washington Post / All About / Buffalo Evening News Inc. / Columbia Insurance Company / /
Country
South Africa / United Kingdom / Jordan / United States / Columbia / Luxembourg / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
M&A / Product Recall / Product Issues / Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
George Washington University / Bryant University / GEICO’s building / University of Maryland MBA Students / Boston College / Yeshiva University / /
Boat Owners Association of the United States / University of Maryland MBA Students / Yeshiva University’s Cardozo Law School / IMC / Energy and Commerce Committee / U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission / Subcommittee on Telecommunications / George Washington University / Fireman’s Fund / Texas A&M University / Securities and Exchange Commission / Subcommittee on Telecommunications and Finance of the Energy / DePaul University / Harvard / Boston College / U.S. House of Representatives / Bryant University / Pennsylvania Railroad Technical and Historical Society / /
Person
Steven M. Davidoff / Jay Pritzker / Lawrence A. Cunningham / James Collins / John W. Mooty / Eric Van den Steen / Noah A. Gold / Lawrence H Kaufman / William K. Klingaman / Re Seen / Doris Christopher / Warren E. Buffett / Robert Pritzker / Edward H. Butler Sr. / John Mackey / Katharine Graham / Alice Schroeder / Bill Retherford / James B. Stewart / Judy Greenwald / Edward H. Butler / R. C. Willey / Deborah A. DeMott / Ronald Chan / David Kass / Michael Dillon / John Kotter / Dean Starkman / Andrew Kilpatrick / Anthony Bianco / Craig E. Aronoff / Richard Santulli / Michael Roberto / Phil Gusman / Chris Chase / Dale A. Oesterle / Barnett Helzberg Jr. / Dexter Shoe / Leslie Scism / David Dodd / Janet Lowe / Harry Oppenheimer / Paul Chutkow / Stewart Horejsi / Jack Ringwalt / Bruce F. Smith / Robert Mondavi / Geraldine Fabrikant / Allan A. Kennedy / Edwin Mellen / Steve Jordon / John L. Ward / Jeff Benedict / Mark A. Hoffman / Al Ueltshci / William H. Gates III / Richard Teitelbaum / William Child / James Heskett / Frances Heffernan / Benjamin Moore / Brandon Leaves / Charlie Munger / Maurice R. Greenberg / Bruce Sagan / Harold Alfond / Rajendra Sisodia / Michael E. Porter / Jerry Porras / Bernard Sarnat / Robert Dorr / Murray B. Light / Benjamin Graham / Charles T. Munger / William N. Thorndike Jr. / Jane Applegate / Jim Clayton / Guy Rolnik / Justin Fuller / Jay Bergen / Re Under / Walter Scott / Jr. / Robert H. Mundheim / /
Position
The Pampered Chef / Guard / president / Crusading Journalist / high-paid corporate lawyer / chief / author / CEO / Professor / intelligent reporter / Butler to Buffett / Harper / chairman / math professor / analyst / /
Product
classic credit card commercials / /
ProvinceOrState
Alabama / New York / Michigan / Utah / Texas / Kansas / New Jersey / Maryland / Tennessee / Massachusetts / /
PublishedMedium
the Wall Street Journal / Des Moines Register / New York Times / Buffalo Courier-Express / Washington Post / Texas Monthly / Harvard Business Review / Wall Street Journal / The Columbia Business School Magazine / Omaha World-Herald / Free Press / BusinessWeek / The Intelligent Investor / Los Angeles Times / USA Today / The Buffalo News / /
Notes Preface 1. For example, Steven M. Davidoff, “With His Magic Touch, Buffett May Be Irreplaceable for Berkshire,” New York Times, May 22, The exact number of Berkshire’s “direct subsidiaries” depe