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ACKNO WLEDGMENTS

In the year following the collapse of Lehman Brothers, we
wrote a series of papers entitled Collateral Damage, laying out
our view of the developing economic crisis, the emerging “new
realities,” and the actions companies needed to take to prosper in
a damaged economy. Some of the ideas in those papers, together
with some of the research, helped to underpin this book.
A number of colleagues at The Boston Consulting Group
(BCG) helped us to develop that thinking, and we wish to
acknowledge their contribution to our work. In no particular
order, they are Shubh Saumya, André Kronimus, Sylvain
Duranton, Andrew Dyer, Philip Evans, Mike Deimler, Grant
Freeland, Jean-Manuel Izaret, Andy Maguire, David Michael,
Takashi Mitachi, Alexander Roos, Jeff Gell, Janmejaya Sinha,
Bernd Waltermann, Chuck Scullion, Rainer Strack, Stépan
Breedveld, Rune Jacobsen, Frank Plaschke, Gerry Hansell,
Lars-Uwe Luther, Jeff Kotzen, Eric Olsen, Jens Kengelbach,
Mathias Schatt, and Catherine Roche.
There is a small group of people who came with us on pretty
much the whole journey. They dug out obscure data from long
ago, they helped to research the archives, they were our eyes and
ears on the developing economic story, and they helped to make
the experience a most rewarding one for us. We want to thank
Nimisha Jain, Jendrik Odewald, Katrin van Dyken, Jim
Minifie, Renato Matiolli, William Gore-Randall, Carolin
Eistert, Kyrill Radev, Daniel Schneider, and Hiroki Inada for
their wholehearted efforts.

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