Acknowledgments

I am indebted to all my students in India and Australia who went through this material and offered ideas for embellishing the content and polishing the exposition. The participants at my Executive Education programs offered invaluable advice. Because most of them were nonfinance professionals, primarily from the information technology field rather than finance, they had unusual and interesting perspectives that augmented the more traditional feedback from business school students and associates.

I am extremely grateful to John Wiley, Singapore, for giving me the opportunity to develop and promote this book. In particular, I owe a tremendous debt to my publisher, Nick Wallwork, for taking a chance with an unknown Indian academic. The production team of Janis Soo and Joel Balbin, based in Singapore, has been very supportive of this project right from the outset, and I owe them an enormous debt. Ms. Nalini and her team at Chennai have been wonderfully co-operative and provided invaluable support at the copyediting and typesetting phases.