ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We were fortunate during the course of this research to be able to take shameless advantage of the talents of our group of student research assistants. They aided the project in innumerable ways, from gathering case data and examples to performing data analyses to conducting interviews. We would like to specifically acknowledge their help and thank them. The students who worked on the project include Jeffery Bonaldi, Karl Boog, Justin Chang, Joon Choi, Francesca Codrea, Elizabeth Esrov, Nihaar Gupta, Justin Heyman, Lindsay Hunt, Alexander Kristofcak, Iris Lin, Kelly Merritt, Beth Mlynarczyk, Tarek Mohamed, Tambu Munhutu, Nicholas Sabin, Sarah Sugarman, Zuzana Vojtekova, and Leslie Yen. James Thompson was instrumental in making sure that we had a good mix of projects and examples.

We both depend on Roz Cohen to a significant extent. Aside from her administrative role at the Sol C. Snider Entrepreneurial Center, she hires our researchers, keeps projects moving, and in general takes responsibility for day-to-day operations. We are very grateful for her consistent, proactive, and empathic efforts on our behalf.

Many of the best ideas in the book derive from the experiences and insights of practitioners who have supported our research and who have implemented the concepts in practice. Many wonderful leaders in companies have been important to our work. In particular, we would like to recognize Margaret Alldredge, Birgit Byman-Kivivuori, Tom Connolly, Bob Cooper, Manfred Eiden, Barry Frylinck, Bob Goergen, Tony Isaacs, Cindy Johnson, Dan McGrath, Stephen Newman, Takeru Ohe, Prisca Peyer-Ehrbar, Ron Pierantozzi, Bob Prince, John Rainieri, Claudio R. Rodriguez, Tom Roy, Petri Salonen, and Helena Terho.

Finally, Rita in particular would like to express appreciation for the support and camaraderie of her colleagues at Columbia Executive Education. Thanks to all of you for making it fun to come to work.