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Peter L. Bernstein

Strategic Concepts & Mechanics

Strategic PatternWar and Crisis as Market Entry Window
Strategic PatternVertical Supply Chain Lockdown
Competitive AdvantageRisk Reallocation as Competitive Moat
Signature MoveShadow Operatives Beyond Auditor Reach
Signature MoveSilence and Eye Contact as Persuasion Weapons
Cornerstone MoveConsolidate Commodity Then Dictate Price
Capital StrategyCorporate Structure as Control Weapon
Signature MoveNever Relinquish Voting Control
Cornerstone MoveAbsorb the Risk Others Won't Touch
Identity & CultureCEO as Performance Actor
Signature MoveDual-Class Shares to Sell Without Surrendering
Signature MoveStiritz: Poker-Player Odds on Back-of-Envelope LBOs
Operating PrincipleBlank Calendar as Competitive Edge
Cornerstone MoveOne-Page Analysis Then Pounce
Signature MoveMalone: Scale as Virtuous Cycle, Tax as Obsession
Cornerstone MoveAnarchic Decentralization, Dictatorial Capital Control
Risk DoctrineInstitutional Imperative as CEO Kryptonite
Decision FrameworkHurdle Rate as Supreme Filter
Signature MoveSingleton: Phone Booth Tender at All-Time-Low Multiples
Cornerstone MoveSuction Hose Buybacks at Maximum Pessimism
Cornerstone MoveCash Flow as True North, Not Reported Earnings
Signature MoveAnders: Sell Your Favorite Division Without Blinking
Identity & CultureEngineers Over MBAs at the Helm
Competitive AdvantageConcentrated Bets Over Diversified Dribbles
Signature MoveMurphy: Leave Something on the Table Then Lever Up
Capital StrategyTax Counsel Before Every Transaction
Operating PrinciplePer-Share Value Not Longest Train
Signature MoveBuffett: Float Flywheel from Insurance to Empire
Strategic PatternGreedy When Others Are Fearful

Primary Evidence

"Books and book chapters Adams, Jr, Russell B., The Boston Money Tree (Thomas Y. Crowell Company, 1977). Allen, Frederick Lewis, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (Harper & Row, 1931). Allen, Frederick Lewis, The Great Pierpont Morgan (Harper & Brothers, 1949). Allen, Trevor, Ivar Kreuger, Match King, Croesus and Crook (John Long, Ltd, 1932). Anderson, Ingvar, A History of Sweden (Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1955). Ångström, Lars-Jonas, Därför Mördades Ivar Kreuger (Sellin & Blomquist, 1990). Ångström, Lars-Jonas, Översättning (unpublished manuscript). Berle, Adolf A., Jr & Gardiner C. Means, The Modern Corporation and Private Property (Macmillan, 1932). Bernstein, Peter L., Capital Ideas: The Improbable Origins of Modern Wall Street (John Wiley, 1992). Bjerre, Poul Carl, Kreuger (Natur och Kultur, 1932). Brooks, John, Once in Golconda: A True Drama of Wall Street 1920-1938, at 82 (John Wiley, 1969). Burk, Kathleen, “The House of Morgan in Financial Diplomacy - 1920-1930,” in B. J. McKercher, ed., The Struggle for Supremacy: Anglo-American Relations in the 1920s (Macmillan, 1987). Chernow, Ron, The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance (Simon & Schuster, 1990). Churchill, Allen, The Incredible Ivar Kreuger (Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1957). Deeson, A. F. L., Great Swindlers: A Fascinating Collection of Some of the World’s Most Incredible Frauds, at 120 (Drake Publishers, 1972). Drachenfels, Kurt, The Real Ivar Kreuger (United Press, 1933). Edwards, George W., The Evolution of Finance Capitalism (Longmans, Green and Co., 1938). Eichengreen, Barry, Golden Fetters: The Gold Standard and the Great Depression 1919-1939 (Oxford University Press, 1992). Galbraith, John Kenneth, The Great Crash 1929 (Houghton Mifflin, 1954). Geisst, Charles R., Wall Street: A History (Oxford University Press, 1997). Georg, Manfred, The Case of Ivar Kreuger (Jonathan Cape, 1933). Glete, Jan, Kreugerkoncerne och Boliden (LiberFörlag, 1975). Glete, Jan, Kreugerkoncernen och Krisen På Svensk Aktiemarknad (Almqvist & Wiksell, 1981). Graham, Benjamin and David L. Dodd, Security Analysis (Whittlesey House, 1934). Hassbring, Lars, The International Development of the Swedish Match Company, 1917-1924 (LiberFörlag, 1979). Keynes, John Maynard, The Economic Consequences of the Peace (Harcourt, Brace & Howe, 1920). Kindleberger, Charles P., Manias, Panics and Crashes (John Wiley, 1978). Kreuger, Torsten, The Truth About Ivar Kreuger (Seewald, 1968). Lefèvre, Edwin, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (George H. Doran and Company, 1923). Lindgren, Håkan, Corporate Growth: The Swedish Match Industry in Its Global Setting (LiberFörlag, 1979). Loewe, Walter, Arne Jansson, and Carl Magnus Rosell, From Swedish Matches to Swedish Match: Sweden’s Match Industry 1836-1996 (Wahlström & Widstrand, 1997). Mackay, Charles, Extraordinary Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (Harriman House, 2003). Marcosson, Isaac Frederick, Turbulent Years (Books for Libraries Press, 1938). Markham, Jerry W., A Financial History of the United States (M. E. Sharpe, 2002). Mitchell, Lawrence E., The Speculation Economy: How Finance Triumphed Over Industry (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc., 2007). Moberg, Vilhelm, A History of the Swedish People: From Renaissance to Revolution (Dorset Press, 1971). Modig, Hans, Swedish Match Interests in British India During the Interwar Years (LiberFörlag, 1979). Partnoy, Frank, Infectious Greed: How Deceit and Risk Corrupted the Financial Markets (Profile, 2003). Rand, Ayn, Night of January 16th (Plume, 1971). Ripley, William Z., Main Street and Wall Street (Little Brown & Co., 1927). Scott, Franklin D., Sweden: The Nation’s History (Southern Illinois University Press, 1988). Seligman, Joel, The Transformation of Wall Street: A History of the Securities and Exchange Commission and Modern Corporate Finance (Houghton Mifflin, 1982). Shaplen, Robert, Kreuger: Genius and Swindler (Alfred A. Knopf, 1960). Soloveychik, George, The Financier: The Life of Ivar Kreuger (Peter Davies, 1933). Sparling, Earl, Kreuger’s Billion Dollar Bubble (Greenberg, 1932). Stolpe, Sven, Ivar Kreuger Mördad? (Médans, 1955). Stoneman, William H., The Life and Death of Ivar Kreuger (The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1932). Strouse, Jean, Morgan: American Financier (Random House, 1999). Thunholm, Lars-Erik, trans. George Thiel, Ivar Kreuger: The Match King (T. Fischer & Co., 1995). Train, John, Famous Financial Fiascos (Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., 1985). Wasik, John F., The Merchant of Power: Sam Insull, Thomas Edison, and the Creation of the Modern Metropolis (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006). Wikander, Ulla, Kreuger’s Match Monopolies, 1925-1930: Case Studies in Market Control Through Public Monopolies (LiberFörlag, 1979). Wilkins, Mira, The History of Foreign Investment in the United States, 1914-1945 (Harvard University Press, 2004). Zuckoff, Mitchell, Ponzi’s Scheme: The True Story of a Financial Legend (Random House, 2005)."

Source:The Match King

"Further Reading Auletta, Ken. The Highwaymen: Warriors of the Information Super Highway. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1997. Auletta, Ken. Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way. New York: Random House, 1991. Bernstein, Peter L. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1996. Biggs, Barton. Hedge hogging. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2006. The Buffett Partnership. Collection of Reports to Investors, 1958–1969. Byrne, John A. The Whiz Kids: The Founding Fathers of American Business and the Legacy They Left Us. New York: Currency/Doubleday, 1993. Conant, Jennet. Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Cunningham, Lawrence. The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 1997. Drucker, Peter F. Adventures of a Bystander. New York: Harper and Row, 1978. Ellis, Charles D., ed. (with James R. Vertin). Classics: An Investor’s Anthology. Homewood, IL: Dow Jones-Irwin, 1989. Gladwell, Malcom. Outliers: The Story of Success. New York: Little, Brown, and Company, 2008. Gleick, James. The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood. New York: Vintage Books, 2011. Graham, Katharine. Personal History. New York: A.A. Knopf, 1997. Hagstrom, R.G. The Warren Buffett Portfolio. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1999. Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. New York: Random House, 1972. Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2011. Kaufman, Peter D. Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger. Los Angeles: PCA Publications, 2005. Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. Lawrence, Mary Wells. A Big Life (in Advertising). New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. Lowe, Janet. Damn Right! Behind the Scenes with Berkshire Hathaway Billionaire Charlie Munger. New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2000. Lowenstein, Roger. Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist. New York: Random House, 1995. Mauboussin, Michael. More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. Poundstone, William. Fortune’s Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street. New York: Hill and Wang, 2005. Press, Eyal. Beautiful Souls: Saying No, Breaking Ranks, and Heeding the Voice of Conscience in Dark Times. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2012. Preston, Richard. American Steel. New York: Avon Books, 1992. Pruitt, Bettye H. The Making of Harcourt General: A History of Growth Through Diversification 1922–1992. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1994. Roberts, John. The Modern Firm: Organizational Design for Performance and Growth. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. Robichaux, Mark. Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, 2002. Skildelsky, Robert. John Maynard Keynes, Volume 2: The Economist as Savior, 1920–1937. New York: Penguin Books, 1995. Swensen, David F. Unconventional Success: A Fundamental Approach to Personal Investment. New York: Free Press, 2005. Tedlow, Richard S. Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built. New York: Harper Business, 2001. Train, John. The Money Masters. New York: Harper and Row, 1980. Index Note: Page numbers followed by f refer to figures; page numbers followed by t refer to tables."

Source:The Outsiders_ Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

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