Editor’s Letter

These are good times for planning for bad times. In this special section, we see that nearly every firm not only has business continuity plans--ranging from wallet-sized phone lists for employees to expansive off-site facilities where they can resume work--but they’re sharing ideas with their competitors about the lessons they learned nearly nine months ago when the World Trade Center’s towers fell.

The editors of Waters paid a visit to a business recovery center in northern New Jersey, and what