Among the landmark occasions in the legendary history of Berkshire Hathaway and
its iconic co-leaders, Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger, was a 1996 symposium
held in New York at Cardozo Law School. The focus of the symposium was Warren's
letters to Berkshire shareholders. The format was a series of panels with two
dozen different experts dissecting all the ideas in the letters, about corporate
governance, takeovers, investing, and accounting. Intellectual sparks
illuminated the two-day affair, which drew unusual press interest for an
academic convocation.
While the principal tangible result of the conference was the publication of the
international best-seller, The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate
America, the