"บัฟเฟตต์"แย้มให้ลูกชายรับช่วงบริหารต่อ

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"บัฟเฟตต์"แย้มให้ลูกชายที่ทำไร่ข้าวโพดเป็นทายาทธุรกิจบริหารอาณาจักรเบิร์กไชร์ แฮธะเวย์ต่อ
วอร์เรน บัฟเฟตต์ มหาเศรษฐีพันล้านผู้ใจบุญของโลก เผยว่า ได้วางตัวนายโฮเวิร์ด บัฟเฟตต์ บุตรชายวัย 56 ปี ซึ่งปัจจุบัน เป็นเกษตรกรทำไร่ข้าวโพด เข้ามารับช่วงบริหารอาณาจักรธุกิจเบิร์กไชร์ แฮธะเวย์ ยักษ์ใหญ่ในอุตสาหกรรมการลงทุนของเขา ที่มีมูลค่า 2.45 แสนล้านดอลลาร์ในฐานะประธานบริษัท

ทั้งนี้ นายบัฟเฟตต์ ได้ให้สัมภาษณ์สถานีโทรทัศน์ซีบีเอสว่า นายโฮเวิร์ดมีความรู้ความเข้าใจ สามารถปกป้องวัฒนธรรมองค์กรของเบิร์กไชร์ได้อย่างดี โดยเบิร์กไชร์ ถือเป็นบริษัทระดับตำนานที่วอร์เรน บัฟเฟตต์ก่อตั้งขึ้นมา และดำรงตำแหน่งประธานและหัวหน้าคณะเจ้าหน้าที่บริหาร(ซีอีโอ)

"โฮเวิร์ดอาจจะมานั่งเก้าอี้ประธานที่ไม่ได้ทำหน้าที่บริหาร แต่เป็นประธานบอร์ดบริหารที่ไม่ใช่ตัวบริษัท หลังจากผมเกษียณแล้วหรือเสียชีวิตแล้ว" มหาเศรษฐีใจบุญ กล่าว

ถ้อยแถลงนี้ของวอร์เรน บัฟเฟตต์ มีขึ้นในช่วงที่มีการพูดถึงอนาคตของเบิร์กไชร์ แฮธะเวย์กันมากในช่วงไม่กี่ปีมานี้ ซึ่งบริษัทเพื่อการลงทุนแห่งนี้ ทำให้บัฟเฟตต์ ก้าวขึ้นมาเป็นหนึ่งในนักธุรกิจผู้มั่งคั่งที่สุดคนหนึ่งของโลก ด้วยมูลค่าทรัพย์สินประมาณ 5 หมื่นล้านดอลลาร์ จากการจัดอันดับของนิตยสารฟอร์บส์

นอกจากนี้ บัฟเฟตต์ ซึ่งแม้ว่าขณะนี้มีสุขภาพแข็งแรง แม้จะอยู่ในวัย 81 ปี ก็เคยพูดหลายครั้งว่า เตรียมผ่องถ่ายอำนาจในการบริหารบริษัทให้กับผู้ที่จะมารับช่วงต่อไป และบอกด้วยว่า มีหลายคนที่เขาคิดไว้ในใจที่จะให้มาดำรงตำแหน่งสืบต่อจากเขา แต่ไม่ได้เปิดเผยว่าเขาคนนั้นเป็นใคร

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The Race To Succeed Warren Buffett Is Down To These Six Men
Julia La Roche and Katya Wachtel | Dec. 12, 2011, 10:09 AM

CBS "60 Minutes" reported that Warren Buffett, "the Oracle of Omaha, has recommended his son Howard to succeed him as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway.

In this role, Howard will serve as a non-executive, non-paid chairman of the board. He will not be responsible for day-to-day company operations.

Berkshire's CEO emphasized that Howard's purpose is to serve as "guardian of the culture."

Buffett gave no indication that he will be stepping down as CEO anytime soon and his son even jokingly told "60 Minutes" the famed investor will leave Berkshire only when he's buried in his grave.

Still, people have always talked a lot about who Buffett's successor will be.

Following the resignation of David Sokol, a top Berkshire exec who was seen as a contender for CEO, there are now six likely candidates to succeed the 81-year-old CEO.

The most recent contenders are hedge fund managers Todd Combs and Ted Weschler. However, there's been speculation that Berkshire could hire another portfolio manager opening up the opportunity for yet another possible successor.

*This is a reproduction of a piece previously run on Business Insider. Katya Wachtel no longer works at Business Insider


ที่มา : http://www.businessinsider.com/who-will ... 2012-12-12

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meet the candidates >

Li Lu: Hedge Fund Manager

Why he's not:
1.Buffett's successor is almost definitely going be recruited from within the Berkshire family.
2.He declined to join the firm last year.

Why he is:
1.Munger told the WSJ: "'In my mind, it's a foregone conclusion" that Li Lu - a Columbia graduate and hedgie, would become a top investment manager at Berkshire.
2.Munger rarely makes those type of complimentary comments.
3.He made a killing by investing in Chinese battery-maker and car company, BYD.
4.Timing is everything and a no in 2010, doesn't mean a no in 2020.

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Ajit Jain: Insurance-Division President at Berkshire Hathaway
Image: AP

Why he's not:
1.He almost never talks to the press.
2.His narrow field of expertise in insurance pricing may make him more valuable where he is.
3.Jain has said he wants to stay in the same role.

Why he is:
1.He knows the company inside-out.
2.He and Buffett speak nearly every day.
3.In 2010 Buffett wrote to shareholders, "If [Munger], I, and Ajit are ever in a sinking boat and you can only save one of us, swim to Ajit."

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Greg Abel: CEO of MidAmerican

Why he's not:
1.His name has been thrown around as a possible successor, but not like Combs or Sokol's name had been thrown around.

Why he is:
1.He's in the family - CEO of MidAmerican.
2.He knows how to manage mammoth companies - in fact, he's CEO of four.
3.He is "responsible for the evaluation of opportunities relating to acquisitions and project development" - a major part of Berkshire's business model.

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Matthew Rose: CEO Northern Burlington
Image: FortWorthChamber

Why he's not:
1.Like Abel, his name has been thrown around as possible successor but not with the same vigor as Sokol or Combs.

Why he is:
1.He has experience in running a massive company - one of the most profitable of Berkshire's holdings.
2.He's relatively young.
3.Buffett has repeatedly praised the job Rose has done at Burlington.

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Todd Combs: Hedge Fund Manager

Why he's not:
1.Combs hasn't had more than 3 years experience running a company.
2.Combs is more suited to the role of CIO and the likely scenario is for Buffett's job to be split in two - one CEO; one CIO - when he goes.

Why he is:
1.He's young and can be molded - "Our goal was a two-year-old Secretariat, not a 10-year-old Seabiscuit" he told Vanity Fair.
2.Buffett describes Combs as a "good, smart human being. He understands investments, and he understands limitations. He will never do anything really dumb." Ie. He's not into high-risk, and neither is Buffett.

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Ted Weschler: Hedge Fund Manager
Image: Flickr.com Janis Jaquith

Why he is not:
1.He's never run a publicly traded company.

Why he is:
1.Weschler, 50, recently joined Berkshire Hathaway as an investment manager to run the equity and debt portfolio for the firm.
2.He has experience in private equity. Weschler previously served as an executive officer at the private equity fund Quad-C so he definitely knows a thing or two about buying businesses.
3.He graduated with a bachelor's degree in economics with concentrations in finance and accounting from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

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OUT: David Sokol, former head of Berkshire subdiaries NetJets and MidAmerican Energy

Why he's not:
1.He resigned for trading activity surrounding Berkshire's acquisition of Lubrizol.

Why he is:
1.He's Buffett's Mr. Fix-It - that means he trusts him.
2.He's within the family.
3.He knows how to manage and turn-around companies.
4.In the foreword to Sokol's book, Buffett writes, "He brings the business equivalent of Ted Williams' .406 batting average to the field of business management."

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Everything You Need To Know About Howard Buffett, The Man Who Will Chair Berkshire Hathaway
Linette Lopez | Dec. 9, 2011, 6:56 PM

Warren Buffett always said that his children would not inherit his amazing company or his vast fortune.

But today, Berkshire Hathaway announced that Howard, Warrens's second child and oldest son, would become chairman after Warren leaves.

In part, this is a surprise.

Then again, it's not. Warren always said he wanted his son to make sure the company's culture stayed in tact, and that's what Howard is supposed to do.

But that simply isn't enough to know for us. To find out more about Howard. We looked over Warren Buffett's biography 'The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life,' by Alice Schroeder, to find out what would make Warren choose Howard, a farmer who didn't graduate from college, to take a leadership position at Berkshire.


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