Appendix . Acknowledgments

Adam Fremeth, a Ph.D. student at Carlson School of Management, helped with the last chapter comparing Safeco and SPX. I would also like to acknowledge the assistance of the three fine reviewers for the publisher: Scott Shane, Russ Hall, and Louis Columbus. I would like to thank Jim Boyd for sticking with me on this project—he was terrific in many ways—and Jerry Wind from Wharton for his excellent comments and suggestions for making improvements and for sharpening the argument. I would also like to acknowledge some of the people who made helpful comments when I presented this material: Jay Barney from Ohio State University; Joseph Mahoney from the University of Illinois; Myles Shaver and Isaac Fox from the Carlson School ...

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