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This compendium of data on New York City was a labor of love. All of the participants named below worked with enthusiasm and focus. The goals were to get it right and to be as complete as possible. In a few cases, we were thwarted by a lack of data availability. But, most of the time, there was so much that we had to be selective. The final choices were made by me.
The impetus for this project came from Professor Terrence Martell, Director of the Weissman Center for International Business. The compendium, at first, was intended merely to update an earlier Fact Book, which had fallen badly out of date after a 10 year hiatus. But it soon became apparent that the emergence of the Internet had made a much wider and more detailed sweep of data available. So we scrapped the old model and created a fresh one. This compendium is a part of a larger program under way at the Weissman Center depicting the sweep of international linkages of New York City.
Lene Skou, Deputy Director to Prof. Martell, was a continuing source of support, encouragement and administrative support. The actual work of research, data collection, formatting and perfecting was done over a 10 month period in 2004 by four Baruch College graduate students working for varying intervals as assistants to the Weissman Center. As is typical of the students at Baruch College, they all came from elsewhere - Bulgaria, India (2) and Malaysia. I was the native, life long New Yorker. They were Mariana Kind, Chitra Priyamvada, Gladwyn Desouza, and Ai Lin See.
Louise Klusek of our award winning Baruch Library provided valuable help and generous time to the project.
Finally, the whole project was made possible by the generous contributions of Glenn Woo, an MBA alumnus of the class of 1967.
We took care to show sources on each table so that the user (and we) can pursue further inquiry and update over time.
Eugene J. Sherman
Fellow
Weissman Center For International Business
December, 2004
Marcela Solano, MS '06 Baruch College, managed the updates and Rafael Nunez, Zicklin School of Business Web Administrator, integreded the enhancements into this website.
Eugene J. Sherman
August, 2006
We updated, added to and enhanced the entire website in January 2008. Amina Kimova, a graduate student at Baruch, did the bulk of the work.
Eugene J. Sherman
January 2008