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Alas, that socialist holdout otherwise known as the Harvard Coop will not offer any discount to its student "members" for the third consecutive year. I would take the opportunity to rail against this decision by Coop President Jeremiah P. Murphy Jr. '73, but such invective would prove futile. There is no hope that the Coop can or will turn a profit. The store's business "strategy" is, of course, the fault of its managers. But any such entrenched bureaucrats with zero financial incentive to improve performance would likely do the same thing that the Coop does: maintain...
...would like the Coop to be the finest academic bookstore in the country," Murphy said...
...indeed, operating costs have declined since Barnes & Noble took over as the Coop's manager of operations last fall, with the large bookstore chain assuming the Coop's costs of advertising, data processing and some employee benefits and salaries...
...plans for the Harvard Coop suggest this will be the most beautiful and grand store in the Square, returning the Coop to the prominence it used to have," said Daniel C. Allen '97, a member of the Coop Board of Directors and The Crimson's business manager...
...Coop at Kendall renovation project was completed last month. Like the Harvard Square Coop's planned refurbishing, the MIT Coop has undergone extensive internal renovations and has shifted its sales focus to providing mainly academic necessities...