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...unprecedented move, Harvard Business School (HBS) last month made arrangements with Brigham Young University in Idaho (BYU-Idaho) to make its entire library of case studies and electronic materials—one of the most extensive in the world—available to professors and students at BYU-Idaho. While other universities have paid for use of HBS’s materials in the past, licenses have always been purchased on an individual and partial basis. This arrangement, made between HBS and BYU-Idaho President Kim B. Clark ’74, who until 2005 was dean of HBS, will...
...menopause--or essentially what the supplements were supposed to be used for in the first place. "We now have a more refined understanding of the role that age and timing of menopause have in affecting the benefits of hormone therapy," says Dr. JoAnn Manson, chief of preventive medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and a co-author of the study, known as the Women's Health Initiative. "Timing does matter...
When former Harvard Business School (HBS) Dean Kim B. Clark ’74 took over as President of Brigham Young University in Idaho (BYU-Idaho), he brought over a new vision for the Mormon school. Now, he’s also bringing over an entire library: BYU-Idaho has been using case studies from Clark’s alma mater since January, and is the first university to be given a site license for all of HBS’s electronic materials. “BYU is a first mover in this, because of Kim Clark?...
...night after studying as well as before. “The night of sleep you get after you learn something may be even more important than the night of sleep before,” he said. Another panelist, Steven W. Lockley, who works in the sleep department at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, said that maintaining a regular sleep schedule is just as important as getting the recommended eight to nine hours a night. “If you constantly have an irregular sleep cycle, you are going to induce jet-lag-like symptoms...
...curriculum to stress more faculty-student interaction. The funding, which will increase from $8 million to $16 million, will be contributed mostly by Harvard University and Harvard Medical School (HMS), with an additional $3 million coming from Harvard’s three teaching hospitals—Mass. General, Brigham and Women’s, and Beth Israel Deaconess. HMS officials said it would be the first time that the hospitals directly funded the teaching of medical students. In an e-mail to the faculty, HMS Dean Joseph B. Martin called the hospitals’ contribution “unprecedented...