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...which also owns Radio Shack and Computer City, acknowledged that Incredible Universe was really an incredible flop and pulled the plug on the entire 17-store operation. The closings, plus the stores' losses, totaled some $230 million and completely wiped out Tandy's profits for 1996. "Maybe," says retail analyst Lynn Detrick of Williams MacKay Jordan & Co. of Houston, "this does suggest that you can take it too far, that stores can be too big and inconvenient." What an incredible thought...
Editor-in-Chief Frederick L. Bronstein ’06 says he wants most of the magazine’s stories written by professors, PhD students, and industry professionals rather than undergraduates. He says he wants The Analyst to be an academic journal—a publication scholars can respect and Harvard pre-professionals can enjoy...
...Bronstein and the other Analyst executives also want to appeal to those who know very little about economics—and in order to expand their readership, they also want to include a handful of introductory articles, such as the first issue’s “On Picking Stocks...
Perhaps he’s right, but if The Analyst dilutes its mission with such a populist approach, it will forfeit its niche as Harvard College’s academic finance journal. The magazine will lose its identity, a rare commodity when you’re one of three business publications on a relatively small college campus. Harvard Investment Magazine, after all, which has been around since 2003, describes its purpose in terms remarkably similar to The Analyst’s, promising to blend “professional articles, interviews, and academic research to offer a comprehensive array of commentary...
...there really room for both? Did HIA really need to start a new magazine? As it stands, The Analyst distributes to every dorm room and panders to the uninformed with articles like “Employee Stock Options 101.” But if they want to be taken seriously as an academically rigorous publication, they need to stop trying to act like a general interest newsstand glossy. In Harvard’s overgrown media landscape, publications need to carve out their corners, and stay in their lanes...