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Acknowledgments
We owe special thanks to Melissa Churchll~ copyeditor, Judy Phillips and Ula Campbell, Production Editors, Sarah Lukaweski, Project Manager, Karen Elliott and Nick Durie, Acquisitions Editors; Pamela Voves, Developmental Editor, and others at Pearson Canada who assisted with the production, marketing, and sales of this edition.ln addition, we would like to acknowledge the contributions of Sheny Finney of Cape Breton University who prepared many of the Entrepreneurship and New Ventures boxed features.
We appreciate the insights and suggestions of the following individuals who provided feedback on the fifth edition or reviewed the manuscript for the new sixth edition:
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Gina Grandy, Mount Allison University Kandey L..arden, l..angara College Peter Morgan, BCIT
Stephen Rose, University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOil)
Lucy Silvestri, Niagara College Dan Wong, SAlT Polytechnic
Dustin Quirk, Donald School of Business - Red Deer College
Rob Anderson, Thompson Rivers University Or. Scott MacMillan, Saint Mary's University Morris Nassi, Champlain College, Saint-Lambert
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earned his MBA at McGill, as well as a graduate diploma in education and a graduate degree in applied manage- ment. Mr. Dracopoulos has taught a broad range of busi- ness courses. He is an advocate of experiential learning and dedicates a significant amount of class time to hands- on assignments. His primary interests are in the fields of marketing and management.
Outside his teaching career, Mr. Dracopoulos has worked in various marketing and sales positions. In addition to this text, he has worked on many publishing
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projects providing web content as well as supporting multimedia and supplemental academic material. While completing his university education, he spent a semester abroad studying management globalization issues in Europe. He has also spent a considerable amount of time coaching high-level sports and organizing events in his spare time. Recent Pearson publications include Business in Action, In-Class Edition, Second Canadian Edition {2009), co-authored with Courtland L. Bovee and JohnV. Thill.
