Reconciling Conflicts — The Challenge for the University

Abstract

As societies become more advanced and more complicated, universities and the education and research they provide grow steadily more important. Certainly, we at Harvard — as at other universities — experience every day our increasing involvements with industry, government, and other important segments of society. While these links bring many wonderful opportunities, they also create many complicating entanglements and difficult dilemmas that have provoked much debate.