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...City of Cambridge and Square businesses are involved in a joint effort to transform Palmer Street, the now-secluded road threaded between the Palmer Street Coop and the Mass. Ave. Coop...
When Danny F. Yagan ’06 realized that he could get books for his economics class much cheaper online than from the Coop, he assembled seven Currier House classmates to set up a service to make the discounts more widely available. The result, an online service called Redline Textbooks, now makes required volumes available to Harvard students at lower prices. This spring, 40 percent of the 333 students enrolled Biological Sciences 50, a genetics and genomics course, bought their books from Redline...
...student entrepreneurs cite low over-head costs as being a key ingredient to their financial survival. Both Redline’s and H-Ads’ successes hinge on their being less expensive options. “We’re able to charge significantly less than the Coop,” explains Redline Sales Manager Brooks E. Washington ’06. The Coop charges large mark-ups from publisher prices, since it has “essentially a monopoly on this market,” he says...
...would be spotted, as a senior, in a crowd gathered in front of the Coop straining to catch a glimpse of then-professional bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger, who would go on to marry a Kennedy—her cousin Maria Shriver—seven years later...
We’re so enamored of our big name professors and the prospect of respectable jobs after we fly the Cambridge coop that we’ve lost something intrinsic to our youth. We’ve stopped questioning authority. In fact, we follow it blindly. We care more about our professors than our peers...