Retailers rolled out a variety of promotions and discounts with mixed results last Friday in an effort to lure recession-weary consumers into Harvard Square stores, hoping that the unofficial start of the holiday shopping season might boost revenues battered in recent months by a tumbling economy.
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They survived when Barnes & Noble took over the Harvard Coop, and even when the Tasty, a 16-stool diner with a fanatical following, gave way to an Abercrombie & Fitch.
The nation’s truly authentic urban village is Harvard Sq. Since as early as 1636, commerce has been a key ingredient of life here in the heart of Cambridge, and for nearly one hundred of those years, commerce has had some help.
While most thesis-writing seniors are making the library their second home, Cydney E. Gray ’09 is taking her thesis to the streets of Harvard Square.
Plenty of big companies – from Google to Earthlink – have tried setting up citywide Wi-Fi networks and failed. San Francisco-based Meraki, a wireless company spun off of a research project at MIT, is taking a different tack.
Within the offices of the Passim Center on Church Street, the ’60s folk music revival is alive and well. Photographs of Joan Baez crowd the walls. A framed, unpublished Bob Dylan poem memorializes a local, late-night writing frenzy. Jim Field from the ’60s bluegrass band Charles River Valley Boys stops in to “drop off his bags” before taking a walk around Harvard Square. And Betsy Siggins, the 69-year-old artistic director, keeps a sign in her entranceway that reads: “Hippies use side door.”
A voracious reader and zealous book collector, Jeff Mayersohn always harbored the fantasy of retiring from his hectic high-tech career and owning a bookstore.
She has a smaller brain than the average student on campus, but like many of the would-be MBAs at Harvard Business School, she’s driven – and refuses to let anyone dissuade her from what she wants.
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