Introduction to Corporate Finance

Ross et al.: Fundamentals of Corporate Finance, Sixth Edition, Alternate Edition

Front Matter Preface © The McGraw−Hill^19 Companies, 2002

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

o borrow a phrase, writing an introductory finance textbook is easy—all you do is sit down at a word processor and open a vein. We never would have completed this book without the in- credible amount of help and support we received from literally hundreds of our colleagues, students, editors, family members, and friends. We would like to thank, without implicating, all of you. Clearly, our greatest debt is to our many colleagues (and their students) who, like us, wanted to try an alter- native to what they were using and made the decision to change. Needless to say, without this support, we would not be publishing a sixth edition! A great many of our colleagues read the drafts of our first and subsequent editions. The fact that this book has so little in common with our earliest drafts, along with the many changes and improvements we have made over the years, is a reflection of the value we placed on the many comments and suggestions that we received. To the following reviewers, then, we are grateful for their many contributions:

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Robert Benecke Scott Besley Sanjai Bhaghat William Brent Ray Brooks Charles C. Brown Mary Chaffin Barbara J. Childs Charles M. Cox Michael Dorigan Michael Dunn Adrian C. Edwards Steve Engel Cheri Etling Thomas H. Eyssell Michael Ferguson Deborah Ann Ford Jim Forjan Micah Frankel

Jennifer R. Frazier A. Steven Graham Darryl E. J. Gurley David Harraway John M. Harris, Jr. R. Stevenson Hawkey Delvin D. Hawley Robert C. Higgins Steve Isberg James Jackson James M. Johnson Randy Jorgensen Jarl G. Kallberg David N. Ketcher Jim Keys Robert Kleinman David Kuipers Morris A. Lamberson John Lightstone

Jason Lin Robert Lutz Timothy Manuel David G. Martin Dubos J. Masson Gordon Melms Richard R. Mendenhall Wayne Mikkelson Lalatendu Misra Karlyn Mitchell Scott Moore Michael J. Murray Bulent Parker Megan Partch Samuel Penkar Pamela P. Peterson Robert Phillips George A. Racette Narendar V. Rao Russ Ray Ron Reiber Thomas Rietz Jay R. Ritter Ricardo J. Rodriguez Gary Sanger Martha A. Schary

Robert Schwebach Roger Severns Dilip K. Shome Neil W. Sicherman Timothy Smaby Vic Stanton Charlene Sullivan George S. Swales, Jr. John G. Thatcher Harry Thiewes A. Frank Thompson Joseph Trefzger Michael R. Vetsuypens Joe Walker James Washam Alan Weatherford Marsha Weber Jill Wetmore Mark White Annie Wong David J. Wright Steve B. Wyatt Michael Young J. Kenton Zumwalt Tom Zwirlein

Several of our most respected colleagues contrib- uted original essays, which are entitled “In Their Own Words,” and appear in selected chapters. To these indi- viduals we extend a special thanks:

Edward I. Altman New York University Fischer Black Robert C. Higgins University of Washington Roger Ibbotson Yale University, Ibbotson Associates

Michael C. Jensen Harvard University Robert C. Merton Harvard University Merton H. Miller Jay R. Ritter University of Florida

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