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...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...
Jacobs is one of the big fish in the Bassplex, a subset of the gross domestic product propelled by some 50 million people who fish, spending more than $75 billion annually, and in particular those who pursue Micropterus salmoides. That overgrown sunfish with the large yap is found in 49 states and is one of freshwater fishing's most voracious consumers. (Do you sense a metaphor rising?) It was Jacobs who made the connection between Mr. Bigmouth and Mr. and Mrs. Shopper in launching the FLW Tour 10 years ago. Those insights hooked Wal-Mart, which became the tour...
...crawl into the shell of a downtown arena called the Aud and build a gigantic store. A hotel and museum are also in the plans. The mission is nothing less than reviving that Rust Belt city on Lake Erie. It's an astonishingly tall order for an overgrown tackle shop to revive what had once been a manufacturing center. But at a time when there are few manufacturers for cities to pursue, the bass business looks pretty good. "You've got to go find something that drives tourism, which drives jobs and incremental sales revenues without impacting the infrastructure," Hagale...
...18th and early 19th centuries, there was one thing that astounded all visitors to New Delhi: the ruins. For miles in every direction, half-collapsed and overgrown, robbed and reoccupied, and neglected by all, lay the remains of 600 years of trans-Indian imperium. Hammams (steam baths) and palaces, thousand-pillared halls and mighty tomb towers, empty temples and half-deserted Sufi shrines?there seemed to be no end to the litter of the ages. "The prospect towards Delhi, as far as the eye can reach, is covered with the crumbling remains of gardens, pavilions, and burying places," wrote British...
...long ago, the medieval village of Saint-Arcons-d'Allier was on its deathbed-it was partly abandoned, mostly overgrown with blackberry bushes, and as dormant as the volcanoes found in this Auvergne region of central France. Today, it's a different story. The village has come back to life, thanks to a sympathetic outsider who decided to build a hotel there. The property is neither a typical bed-and-breakfast nor a trendy health farm. Instead, it consists of 14 houses, which comprise the hotel's rooms and suites. The 9th century château is where...