This explains Reader's Digest (and, for that matter, Harper's, its highbrow cousin), "Bartlett's Quotations," Trivial Pursuit, 10-best lists, executive newsletters and countless other vehicles for the selection and mastery of information.
Graef Crystal, the editor of an executive-compensation newsletter who once designed executive pay plans, took a more jaundiced view.
The main research diffusion mechanisms are researcher driven, basically scientific journals and conferences, with very scant efforts in broader dissemination mechanisms such as executive summaries, newsletters or blogs.
"A lot of people think this is a category — electronics — that Amazon will crush just as they did bookstores," said Robin Lewis, chief executive of industry newsletter The Robin Report.
In the same Newsletter, Executive Director Robert P. Ellis stated, "All categories of our membership (student, regular, and life) contribute to the sustainment and advancement of CRWAD as the premier international animal disease research organization".
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The Times looked at the 51 chief executives who appear both in Golf Digest's June issue and in the data base of large-company executives maintained by Graef Crystal, who edits a San Diego-based newsletter on executive compensation.
Still, Mr. Coulter's bountiful retirement package attracted the attention of Graef Crystal, editor of the Crystal Report, a newsletter on executive compensation.
Eric Kobren, a former Fidelity marketing executive who publishes a newsletter tracking Fidelity funds, said, "They pay them an enormous amount of money and they have enormous golden handcuffs".
Michael Gettelman, a securities lawyer who edits The Corporate Counsel, a newsletter on executive compensation, urged a rule requiring immediate disclosure of employment and departure contracts through an 8-K, a type of report closely watched by analysts, reporters and some investors.
