The editors of Business and Poverty: The global CSR case-book are honoured to have worked with all the experts who contributed essays and are grateful for their time and effort!

Sincere thanks also go to Jordi Canals and Joan Fontrodona of the IESE Business School for their contributions to the making of this book! Dean Canals made it possible to have IESE MBA students conduct the field research that represents the factual underpinning of the cases presented. Prof. Fontrodona, IESE Centre for Business in Society, professionally supervised the students as they implemented their research. The editors would also like to express their gratitude toward Carlos Costa of the Boston Consulting Group BCG, Barcelona. He was enormously important for the genesis of Business and Poverty: The global CSR case-book as his contribution helped direct focus towards questions of relevance to the private sector. In addition, he helped to set up interviews with European company representatives active in the developing world. Thereby, he became an important link between the academic and the professional world. The editors would like to thank the students of IESE Business School who helped to conduct the research of the cases - Alexia Katsouranis, Anil Kathuria, Istvan Fulop, Javier Morales, Ceylan Öney, Nora Oliveró, and Suaye Banigo - as well as Jorge Tomas of BCG and Juliana Mutis and Heinrich Liechtenstein of IESE Business School, who supported the cooperation with the companies and the coordination of the students throughout the project.

In the process of writing the cases and editing the book, the editing and case writing team decided not to publish five cases. Still, sincere thanks go to all the representatives of TNT, BCG, the Telefónica Group, the Ringier Group and the Dariu Foundation, all of whom gave their time and effort! Due to company policy, the Holcim case we worked on is not published in this book. Apart from respecting this corporate decision, the editors want to thank the Holcim representatives who eagerly worked with the editing and case writing team until the case was completed in terms of content.

Finally, the editors want to thank the representatives of those companies which helped publish the cases presented in Business and Poverty: The global CSR case-book: Uwe Fölster, Angel Font, Antonio Fuertes, Mads Kjaer, Bjorn Klovstad, Jacques Labre and Alain Mathys, Matti J. Ojanen, Guillermo de Rueda, and José Manuel Sin Cabrero. Thanks for your constructive critiques, time and effort!