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After leading the school through a wave of budget cuts earlier this year, Light, who joined the Business School faculty 40 years ago, said that it was a good time to step down...
...overseen a $600 million capital campaign for the Business School, the complete renovation of the school's Baker Library, and the introduction of the 2+2 program, which allows students to apply to HBS after their junior year of college, as well as leading the school through a wave of budget cuts earlier this year. Light has been at the helm of the business school since being named interim dean in August 2005. He assumed the position on a permanent basis in April...
...with leading social-network scientists Dr. Nicholas Christakis of Harvard University and James Fowler of the University of California, San Diego, who make up the team best known for its series of studies showing that emotional states and behaviors - including happiness, obesity and quitting smoking - can propagate like a wave throughout a network of people. To examine whether the contagion effect existed with loneliness, the researchers used the same data set that Christakis and Fowler had mined for their earlier studies - the Framingham Heart Study, an ongoing trial originally begun in 1948 to identify risk factors for cardiovascular disease. Thanks...
...these results hold up, treating loneliness should involve more than individual therapy for patients. It requires addressing larger, society-based issues. "People are not going to realize that there is almost a wave of loneliness that is being propagated by people two or three connections removed from them," says Dr. Richard Suzman, director of the division of behavioral and social research at the National Institute on Aging, which funded the study. "This does suggest that one has got to look at both the network and individual simultaneously when you try to repair what seems to be a cascading, spiraling descent...
...experts. The Army reckons it has only about 400 psychiatrists handling more than half a million troops. That may have been one reason the Army was reluctant to nudge a strangely performing Hasan, who had trained as a shrink, out of the service: it needed him. Faced with a wave of service members coming back from combat in anguish, the Pentagon has made the diagnosis and treatment of posttraumatic disorders a top priority. Every battalion, especially in combat zones, is now supposed to have a mental-health specialist. (Watch a slideshow of the psychic scars of Kashmir...