Word: commerciales
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This plan seeks to remove Harvard's direct involvement in the companies by placing their management in the hands of a third party, but appears to answer none of the ethical questions which have surrounded university-industry ties since the biotechnology boom started more than a decade ago. University officials...
BACK then, Bok and other Harvard officials cited ethical concerns that remain just as relevant today. Bok argued at the time that companies' desires to keep trade secrets may be fundamentally incompatible with academia's commitment to freedom of information. Furthermore, such investments "could confuse the University's central commitment...
In more practical terms, Bok noted that a school might be tempted to tenure--or funnel more lab space and research money to--a junior professor because he was working on a "matter of major commercial importance" that might prove lucrative.
In addition, the prospect of vast riches to be had in the biotechnology field can act as a powerful lure for faculty and potential faculty. The new commercial venture could act as an incentive for professors to stay here, rather than venture into the for-profit world as Professor Walter...
Even so, legislatures are coming under increasing pressure to ban dirty dialing. In April Congress banned the transmission to minors of obscene or indecent material for commercial purposes. Federal courts in New York and California promptly struck down the portion of the law applying to merely indecent matter (messages are...